The body adorned: dissolving boundaries between sacred and profane in India's art.

Dehejia, Vidya

The author draws on the literature of court poets, the hymns of saints and acharyas, and verses from inscriptions to illuminate premodern India's unique treatment of sculpted and painted form. She focuses on the coexistence of sacred and sensuous images within the common boundaries of Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu sacred spaces, redefining terms like sacred and secular in relation to Indian archite...

Publisher: Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd.

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