Indian Temple Sculpture

(Hardback, Revised edition)

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This beautiful reprint illustrates the V&As unrivalled collection of South Asian sculpture, putting Indian temple sculpture in its context as an instrument of worship intended to embody powerful religious experience. Author John Guy considers the origin, cosmological meaning and role of sculpture within the temple setting, and reveals the vivid rituals and traditions still in practice today. The book is also an absorbing introduction to the principal iconographic forms in the three traditional religions of the Indian subcontinent, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, with the principal deities presented through their myths and manifestations.

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"Essential and beautiful...this lavishly illustrated book is a welcome and much needed addition to the subject of Indian religious Art."

-- "Royal Academy Magazine"

Author Bio

John Guy is the curator of the Arts of South and South East Asia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York