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Clay Works

by Susan S. Bean
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789361313189
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic India
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 288
  • Original Price: INR 1999.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 175 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History / General

Until recently, polychrome terracruda (air-dried clay) sculpture has been virtually absent from exhibitions and scholarship on South Asian art history. This is beginning to change. As early Indic texts and accounts published in the last few centuries attest, this malleable and dynamic medium has played a fundamental role in the region’s visual arts. This boundary-breaking book traces the longstanding interactions between clay, sculptors, and their clienteles; shaping and reshaping religious practices, social formations, and aesthetic values across the region. The first chapter explores the history of terracruda as artistic medium; the following two chapters present long trajectories of practice in the Buddhist Himalayas and the Deccan; and the latter two chapters offer insight into terracruda sculpture’s role in cultural transformations—the 18th and 19th-century artistic florescence in Bengal, and British colonial displays of terracruda figures at international exhibitions. Employing an ecological approach that recognizes substances, things, and objects as players in the world, Clay Works celebrates the contributions of clay’s supple plasticity and ephemerality and brings a much-needed and timely perspective to South Asian art history.

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