From Temple to Museum Colonial Collections and Umā Maheśvara Icons in the Middle Ganga Valley 1st Edition Salila Kulshreshtha 1351356097 9781351356091

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• ISBN 10: 1351356097
• ISBN 13: 9781351356091
• Author: Salila Kulshreshtha

Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose and evolution by contextualising them in their original architectural or ritual setting while also following their displacement. The work examines how these images may have moved during different spates of temple renovation and acquired new identities by being relocated either within sacred precincts or in private collections and museums, art markets or even desecrated and lost.

Table of contents:

Part I The making of museum collections

1 Creating identities

2 Making of museums

Part II The icon in context

3 Sacred sites

4 The Uma Mahesvaramurti

5 Shifting centres

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