THE INDIC ART OF THE BOOK: BUDDHIST AND HINDU MANUSCRIPTS FROM NEPAL AND NORTHERN INDIA
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30 Aug
2021
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Southasian Painting
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Jinah Kim
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Image: Detail from folio 206r, AṣṭasāhasrikaPrajñāpāramitā manuscript, ca. 1143 CE, West Bengal. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987-52-14. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Pre-Islamic South Asia may not be celebrated for its art of the book. Yet, books did get made in the Indian subcontinent during the first millennium CE. A unique format of a book developed that cleverly harnessed environmental conditions. This lecture explores the Indic Art of the book by considering manuscript evidence from Nepal and Northern India. How was a book conceptualized and designed in medieval South Asia? Is there an Indic Art in the book?
This Lecture is part of the Postgraduate Southasian Painting Course “ARTS OF THE BOOK IN SOUTH ASIA”
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Duration -
August 30, 2021
Timing: 6:15 - 8:30 PM
Registrations Closed
Jinah Kim
Jinah Kim is the George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Harvard University. Her research explores diverse topics such as the female patronage of Buddhist art in medieval South Asia, the development of visual vernaculars in Indian manuscript painting, and a complex history of re-appropriation of a religious site like Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Her books include Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist book cult in South Asia (University of California Press in 2013) and Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra and a Material History of Indian Painting (University of California Press, 2021). In addition to her academic research, she is working on a digital humanities project, Mapping Color in History, which creates a searchable database for pigment analysis data.