INNOVATION AND VARIATION IN HOYSALA-STYLE TEMPLES
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20 Sep
2023
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The Indian Temple
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Katherine E. Kasdorf
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Image: Chennakeshava Temple, Belur
Temples in southern Karnataka built during the Hoysala Period (ca. 1000–1346 CE) are famous for the profusion of highly detailed, dynamic sculpture that many of them display. Encompassing a remarkable variety of innovative architectural and sculptural forms, the art-historical category “Hoysala temple” eludes straightforward explanation.This lecture will discuss the complexities of the Hoysala temple style and its multiple variations, exploring the significance of these distinctive monuments to politics, prestige, and place.
This Lecture is part of the Postgraduate THE INDIAN TEMPLE Course
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September 20, 2023
Timing: 6:30 - 8:45 pm IST
Registrations Closed
Katherine E. Kasdorf
Katherine E. Kasdorf is an Associate Curator of Arts of Asia and the Islamic World at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). She received her Ph.D. in South Asian art history from Columbia University, completing a dissertation on temples of the Hoysala capital in Halebidu, Karnataka. Curatorial projects include new permanent-collection galleries at the DIA and the Walters Art Museum, where she previously held a Wieler-Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship, and the Walters exhibition Ferocious Beauty: Wrathful Deities from Tibet and Nepal. Publications include articles on South Asian temple sculpture and architecture, and on architectural reuse in Hindu and Islamic contexts in the Deccan.