Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes: Seeing South Asian Art Anew [Paperback]

This volume takes as its focus the process of seeingto look closely, remaining true to the object, but also to see widely, from multiple subjective stances and diverse bodily engagements from walking to dreaming, from glancing to looking askance, and hypnotic stares, and to see beyond the visible.

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface by Monica Juneja

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Reading Monuments and Seeing Texts: Michael W. Meister and the Opening of Eyes

PIKA GHOSH AND PUSHKAR SOHONI

2 Region, Style, Idiom, and Ritual in History: Michael W. Meister on the Study of Jain Art

JOHN E. CORT

3 Conversations with Michael Meister

ROMILA THAPAR

4 Churning the Object: Michael W. Meister as Manth
na

DARIELLE MASON

5 Reminiscence

GIEVE PATEL

6 Meister Purana in Modern Indian Art

AJAY SINHA

7 Squaring a Circle: Design and Construction in the Temple of Anwa

PUSHKAR SOHONI

8 Liberating Migrations: On the Trail of Jaina Temples in Medieval Central India

TAMARA I. SEARS

9 Paper Pr
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NACHIKET CHANCHANI

PART IV   Vernacular Craft and lãX