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Image Problems
The Origin and Development of the Buddha's Image in Early South AsiaMcLellan Endowed Series
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67,99 € |
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| Verlag: | University Of Washington Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 30.04.2015 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780295805795 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 280 |
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<p>This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old questions of where and when to present the history of Buddhism’s relationship with figural art as an ongoing set of negotiations within the Buddhist community and in society at large. By comparing innovations in Brahmanical, Jain, and royal artistic practice, DeCaroli examines why no image of the Buddha was made until approximately five hundred years after his death and what changed in the centuries surrounding the start of the Common Era to suddenly make those images desirable and acceptable.</p>
<p>The textual and archaeological sources reveal that figural likenesses held special importance in South Asia and were seen as having a significant amount of agency and power. Anxiety over image use extended well beyond the Buddhists, helping to explain why images of Vedic gods, Jain teachers, and political elites also are absent from the material record of the centuries BCE. DeCaroli shows how the emergence of powerful dynasties and rulers, who benefited from novel modes of visual authority, was at the root of the changes in attitude toward figural images. However, as DeCaroli demonstrates, a strain of unease with figural art persisted, even after a tradition of images of the Buddha had become established.</p>
<p>The textual and archaeological sources reveal that figural likenesses held special importance in South Asia and were seen as having a significant amount of agency and power. Anxiety over image use extended well beyond the Buddhists, helping to explain why images of Vedic gods, Jain teachers, and political elites also are absent from the material record of the centuries BCE. DeCaroli shows how the emergence of powerful dynasties and rulers, who benefited from novel modes of visual authority, was at the root of the changes in attitude toward figural images. However, as DeCaroli demonstrates, a strain of unease with figural art persisted, even after a tradition of images of the Buddha had become established.</p>
<p>Acknowledgments</p>
<p>1. Problems and Preconceptions</p>
<p>2. Questions of Origin</p>
<p>3. Image Aversion</p>
<p>4. Images and Identity</p>
<p>5. Historical Shifts</p>
<p>6. Image Appeal</p>
<p>7. Coping Strategies</p>
<p>8. Final Words</p>
<p>Notes</p>
<p>Bibliography</p>
<p>List of Illustrations</p>
<p>Index</p>
<p>1. Problems and Preconceptions</p>
<p>2. Questions of Origin</p>
<p>3. Image Aversion</p>
<p>4. Images and Identity</p>
<p>5. Historical Shifts</p>
<p>6. Image Appeal</p>
<p>7. Coping Strategies</p>
<p>8. Final Words</p>
<p>Notes</p>
<p>Bibliography</p>
<p>List of Illustrations</p>
<p>Index</p>
<p>Robert DeCaroli is associate professor of art history at George Mason University.</p>
<p>"A fascinating account of the complex and, at times, contradictory ideas around the utility and appropriateness of figural representations in early Buddhist communities. DeCaroli’s study marshals an enormous amount of textual, inscriptional, numismatic, and visual evidence to examine how Buddhist communities were not only participating in broader social and cultural transformations but also seeking to differentiate uniquely Buddhist approaches to the relationship, or lack thereof, between subject and image."—Catherine Becker, author of <i>Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist Stupas of Andhra Pradesh</i></p>
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