For more than 1500 years, from the Indian subcontinent to the islands of the Indonesian archipelago, the temple has embodied and symbolized the Hindu worldview at its deepest level and inspired the greatest architectural and artistic achievements in Hindu Asia. In "The Hindu Temple," considered the standard introduction to the subject, George ...
This celebration of Australian architecture explores 20th-century houses in the bush lands, on beaches, in bustling metropolitan areas, and in suburban communities.
As early as the 14th century, stories glorifying the exotic palaces of Indian rulers began to circulate in the West, stories confirmed upon closer acquaintance. Even today, they are magical sites - small towns rather than single buildings, in which the Hindu and Muslim rulers of the subcontinent dispensed their laws and enjoyed their wealth. The ...
Catalog for the Hayward Gallery's touring exhibition of their show featuring 2000 years of Indian sculpture. This is a distribution-only title for which there are no supporting materials.
The first few articles examine structures in the Sacred Centre and Royal Centre of Vijayanagara, where documentation, photography, mapping, and new discoveries have led to fresh interpretations. Also considered are the spatial and cosmic relationships between the magnificent landscape in which the ruins of Vijayanagara are disposed, and its ...
This volume is dedicated to the monuments and buildings of Ahmadabad, the premier city of Gujarat. With its many mosques and tombs dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, Ahmadabad preserves some of the finest Indian Islamic buildings, though these are still little known outside the region. The step-well, unique to Gujarat, is another feature of ...
A new titles in the BLUE GUIDE series covers the increasingly popular tourist destination of Southern India, starting with Bombay. Divided into chapters that focus on the main towns and sites, with ideas for additional excursions off the beaten track, this is one of the most comprehensive guidebooks available to the area. 90 maps and plans. 30 ...
In this splendid and unique collection of photographs, Stella Snead captures the extraordinary vitality, intelligence, and variety of animals in Indian sculpture found at sites from prehistory through the eighteenth century. Here are cats, peacocks, monkeys, deer, mongooses, anteaters, cows, hyenas, and tigers, as well as such fantastic creatures ...
Tamil Nadu preserves a remarkable and vigorous religious tradition which has dominated the every day lives of the people, inspiring major building projects. This book acknowledges the genius of South Indian architecture and art and focuses on t he interaction between sacred and urban space. The temple towns of Kanchipuram, Tiruvannamalai,
The Muslim kingdoms of the Deccan plateau flourished from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries. During this period, the Deccan sultans built palaces, mosques and tombs, and patronised artists who produced paintings and decorative objects. Many of these buildings and works of art still survive as testimony to the sophisticated techniques of their ...
In the heart of India's Deccan Plateau lies the ruined city of Firuzabad, the royal palace and second capital of Sultan Firuz Shah Bahmani (r.1397-1422). Built in the early years of the fifteenth century, the city displays a remarkably unified conception of Indo-Muslim architecture. But Firuzabad slipped into oblivion shortly after the death of ...
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