A sacred journey: the Kedara Kalpa series of Pahari paintings and the painter Purkhu of Kangra
The Kedara Kalpa is a relatively little-known Shaiva text; and only slightly better known than it are the two dispersed series of paintings to which this study is devoted. But both raise questions that are at once elegant and deeply engaging. Ostensibly, they treat of a journey by five seekers who s...
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| Format: | Print Image |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Zürich
Artibus Asiae Publishers
2021
New Delhi, India Niyogi Books 2021 |
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Artibus Asiae (54)
Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Artibus Asiae Supplement
54 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kangra (Region)
/ Pahari painting
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| Further subjects: | B
Illustrated book
B Pahari painting (India) (Kangra Valley) B India - Kangra Valley B Miniature painting, Indic (India) (Kangra Valley) B Pahari painting B Miniature painting, Indic B Hindu painting (India) (Kangra Valley) B Hindu painting |
| Summary: | The Kedara Kalpa is a relatively little-known Shaiva text; and only slightly better known than it are the two dispersed series of paintings to which this study is devoted. But both raise questions that are at once elegant and deeply engaging. Ostensibly, they treat of a journey by five seekers who set out the reach the realm of the great god, Shiva - walking barefoot through icy mountains and deep ravines, frozen rivers and moon-like rocks, running on the way into temptations and dangers the like of which no man before them has encountered - and, in the end, succeed. But as one goes through the narrative, the text visualized with brilliance sometimes by members of a talented family of Pahari painters, on begins to wonder. Is this a parable of sorts? Or the description of a long, unending dream from which one never wakes? Or, one wakes up like the five seekers and then, at the very next moment, slips back into that real/unreal world again? Is there something that hides behind all that one sees? Is this journey real, or is it only in the mind? |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-170) |
| Physical Description: | 170 Seiten, 32 cm |
| ISBN: | 9391125352 |