Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 402 pages)
ISBN:
9789047420491
Series Statement:
Brill's Inner Asian library volume 18
Content:
Preliminary material /D.M. Srinivasan -- Chapter One. Pre-Kusana art: A new concept /Doris Meth Srinivasan -- Chapter Two. Pathways between Gandhara and North India during second century B.C.–second century A.D /Saifur Rahman Dar -- Chapter Three. Passages to India: Saka and Kusana migrations in historical contexts /Jason Neelis -- Chapter Four. Numismatic evidence for a chronological framework for pre-Kaniskan art,from Kalchayan to Gandhara /David W. Mac Dowall -- Chapter Five. Acroliths from Bactria and Gandhara /Osmund Bopearachchi -- Chapter Six. Barikot, an indo-greek urban center in Gandhara /Pierfrancesco Callieri -- Chapter Seven. The artistic center of Butkara I and Saidu Sharif I in the pre-Kusana period /Domenico Faccenna -- Chapter Eight. Kanjur Ashlar and diaper masonry. Two building phases in Taxila of the first century A.D /Shoshin Kuwayama -- Chapter Nine. Coinage from Iran to Gandhara – With special reference to divinities as coin types /David W. Mac Dowall -- Chapter Ten. Dynastic and institutional connections in the pre-and early Kusana period:New manuscript and epigraphic evidence /Richard Salomon -- Chapter Eleven. Art, beauty and the business of running a buddhist monastery in early northwest India /Gregory Schopen -- Chapter Twelve. The pre-Kusana and early Kusana levels at Sonkh /Herbert Härtel -- Chapter Thirteen. Monumental Nāginīs from Mathura /Doris Meth Srinivasan -- Chapter Fourteen. Close encounters: Multicultural systems in ancient India /Pia Brancaccio -- Index /D.M. Srinivasan -- Figures /D.M. Srinivasan.
Content:
South Asian religious art became codified during the Kuṣāṇa Period (ca. beginning of the 2nd to the mid Third century). Yet, to date, neither the chronology nor nature of Kuṣāṇa Art, marked by great diversity, is well understood. The Kuṣāṇa Empire was huge, stretching from Uzbekistan through northern India, and its multicultural artistic expressions became the fountainhead for much of South Asian Art. The premise of this book is that Kuṣāṇa Art achieves greater clarity through analyses of the arts and cultures of the Pre- Kuṣāṇa World, those lands becoming the Empire. Fourteen papers in this book by leading experts on regional topography and connective pathways; interregional, multicultural comparisons; art historical, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic and textual studies represent the first coordinated effort having this focus
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004154513
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004154515
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe On the cusp of an era Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2007 ISBN 9004154515
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004154513
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Art History
Keywords:
Mittelasien
;
Indien
;
Kunst
;
Kushana Dynastie : v200-300
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
