Garland of Visions

Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian Painting

Garland of Visions
Jinah Kim
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Hardback
h254 x 203mm - 352pg
16 Feb 2021 US
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9780520343214
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Garland of Visions explores the generative relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in the construction and circulation of visual knowledge in medieval South Asia. Shifting away from the traditional connoisseur approach, Jinah Kim instead focuses on the materiality of painting: its mediums, its visions, and especially its colors. She argues that the adoption of a special type of manuscript called pothi enabled the material translation of a private and internal experience of "seeing" into a portable device. These mobile and intimate objects then became important conveyors of many forms of knowledge-ritual, artistic, social, scientific, and religious-and spurred the spread of visual knowledge of Indic Buddhism to distant lands. By taking color as the material link between a vision and its artistic output, Garland of Visions presents a fresh approach to the history of Indian painting.
Jinah Kim is George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Harvard University. She is the author of Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia.
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ISBN-13: 9780520343214
Published: 16 Feb 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 254mm
Width: 203mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 998g
Pages: 352

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