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Garland of visions : color, tantra, and a material history of Indian painting /

"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 material...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kim, Jinah, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Painting > India > History > 12th century.
Painting, Indic.
Color in art.
Painting.
India.
1100-1199
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Painting and its medium
  • The art of the book in medieval South Asia
  • Visions on the move
  • A garland of visions
  • Color as an encoding tool
  • Color to matter : a material history of Indian painting
  • Epilogue.