PATRONAGE AND PROCESS: CREATING THE CAVES AT ELLORA
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23 Aug
2023
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The Indian Temple
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Lisa N. Owen
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Image: Kailasanatha temple
In this lecture, We will be introduced to the caves at Ellora and challenge traditional frameworks that divide this site into discrete religious phases of artistic and devotional activities. Prof. Owen will demonstrate that artists did not work as specialists for only one type of cave but instead moved effortlessly across Ellora’s Shaiva, Buddhist, and Jain monuments. What might the fluidity of stone-cutting processes indicate about patronage at Ellora and its expansion as a prominent multireligious center?
This Lecture is part of the Postgraduate THE INDIAN TEMPLE Course
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Duration -
August 23, 2023
Timing: 6:30 - 8:45 pm IST
Registrations Closed
Lisa N. Owen
Lisa N. Owen is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of North Texas, USA. She is the author of Carving Devotion in the Jain Caves at Ellora (2012)and has published essays with Routledge, Marg, Oxford University Press, and the École française d’Extrême-Orient. She has received numerous grants to support her fieldwork in India. Her current book project questions the saliency of employing traditional art historical categories such as ‘architecture’ and ‘sculpture’ to India’s rock-cut monuments that clearly express a power of place through more complex visual systems.