Storied stone : reframing the Philadelphia Museum of Art's South Indian temple hall / Darielle Mason ; with contributions by Crispin Branfoot, Eleanor B. H. Coates and Susan Pepper Treadway, Anna Lise Seastrand, and Archana Venkatesan.

Storied stone : reframing the Philadelphia Museum of Art's South Indian temple hall /

"This history of the South Indian temple hall in the Philadelphia Museum of Art traces how its display and interpretative framework have changed over time"--

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Main Authors: Mason, Darielle (Author), Branfoot, Crispin (Author), Coates, Eleanor Henry (Author), Treadway, Susan Pepper (Author), Seastrand, Anna Lise, 1980- (Author), Venkatesan, Archana (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : New Haven, CT : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; Published in association with Yale University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Hindu temples > India, South.
Hindu sculpture > India, South.
Mandapas > India, South.
Temples hindous > Inde (Sud)
Sculpture hindoue > Inde (Sud)
ARCHITECTURE / Regional.
ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections.
Buildings.
Hindu sculpture.
Hindu temples.
Mandapas.
Madurai (India) > Buildings, structures, etc.
India > Madurai.
South India.
Table of Contents:
  • Director's foreword / Timothy Rub
  • Acknowledgments / Darielle Mason
  • The most important gift, Adeline Pepper Gibson: her family and her travels in Madurai / Eleanor Henry Coates and Susan Pepper Treadway
  • Changing visions, changing venues. The Mandapam in Nayaka South India / Crispin Branfoot
  • Playing detective. The space of narrative and performance: contextualizing the temple hall / Anna Lise Seastrand
  • Not written in stone. Mandapam of the heart: poetry and ritual in the Tamil temple / ArchanaVenkatesan.

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