Re: [INDOLOGY] Readings on Body Image and Body Ideals in Early South Asia

2025-02-07 Thread James Hegarty via INDOLOGY 
Dear Corinna and everyone who was kind enough to send me recommendations,

The Indology list does it again!

Thank you!

Best,

James

> On 4 Feb 2025, at 19:57, Corinna Wessels-Mevissen via INDOLOGY 
>  wrote:
> 
> Particularly topical readings include:
> 
> Vidya Dehejia, The body adorned: dissolving boundaries between sacred and 
> profane in India's art (NY, Columbia University Press), 2009;
> 
> and the catalogue
> 
> Naman Ahuja, The body in Indian art and thought (Brussels: Europalia 
> international; Antwerp: Ludion), 2013.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Corinna Wessels-Mevissen
> 
> 
> Am Dienstag, 4. Februar 2025 um 20:42:00 MEZ hat Tracy Coleman via INDOLOGY 
>  Folgendes geschrieben:
> 
> How about John Powers, A Bull of a Man (Harvard).
> 
> Focus is on men and male body, showing also how the masculine ideal is always 
> constructed in opposition to women, the female body, and femininity.
> 
>  
> --Tracy Coleman
> 
>  
> From: INDOLOGY  on behalf of James 
> Hegarty via INDOLOGY 
> Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Readings on Body Image and Body Ideals in Early South Asia
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> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> A student has asked me for some readings in this area and I am at a loss; can 
> anyone advise?
> 
> Best Wishes,
> 
> James Hegarty
> Cardiff University
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Re: [INDOLOGY] Readings on Body Image and Body Ideals in Early South Asia

2025-02-04 Thread Caley Smith via INDOLOGY 
Daud Ali's Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India
should not be overlooked on this topic.



On Tue, Feb 4, 2025, 12:32 PM James Hegarty via INDOLOGY <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> A student has asked me for some readings in this area and I am at a loss;
> can anyone advise?
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> James Hegarty
> Cardiff University
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Re: [INDOLOGY] Readings on Body Image and Body Ideals in Early South Asia

2025-02-04 Thread Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY 
https://amzn.in/d/dClc1NY
The sensuous human form-elegant and eye-catching-is the dominant feature of
premodern Indian art. From the powerful god Shiva, greatest of all yogis
and most beautiful of all beings, to stone dancers twisting along temple
walls, the body in Indian art is always richly adorned. Alankara (ornament)
protects the body and makes it complete and attractive; to be unornamented
is to invite misfortune. In The Body Adorned, Vidya Dehejia, who has
dedicated her career to the study of Indian art, draws on the literature of
court poets, the hymns of saints and acharyas, and verses from inscriptions
to illuminate premodern India's unique treatment of the sculpted and
painted form. She focuses on the coexistence of sacred and sensuous images
within the common boundaries of Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu "sacred spaces,"
redefining terms like "sacred" and "secular" in relation to Indian
architecture. She also considers the paradox of passionate poetry, in which
saints praised the sheer bodily beauty of the divine form, and nonsacred
Rajput painted manuscripts, which freely inserted gods into the earthly
realm of the courts. By juxtaposing visual and literary sources, Dehejia
demonstrates the harmony between the sacred and the profane in classical
Indian culture. Her synthesis of art, literature, and cultural materials
not only generates an all-inclusive picture of the period but also
 revolutionizes our understanding of the cultural ethos of premodern India.

https://archive.org/details/bodyadorneddissodehe

No download link

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The body in Indian art and thoughtby Ahuja, Naman P
https://archive.org/details/bodyinindianarttahuj/page/362/mode/2up

360 p. : 25 cm

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels,
October 5, 2013-January 5, 2014 as part of the Europalia.india Festival,
October 4, 2013-January 26, 2014

Includes bibliographical references

No download link.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM Nagaraj Paturi 
wrote:

> A Bull of a Man
>
> Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism
>
> John Powers
>
> seems to be Buddhism centric.
>
> https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674064034
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM Tracy Coleman via INDOLOGY <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> How about John Powers*, A Bull of a Man* (Harvard).
>>
>> Focus is on men and male body, showing also how the masculine ideal is
>> always constructed in opposition to women, the female body, and femininity.
>>
>>
>>
>> --Tracy Coleman
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *INDOLOGY  on behalf of
>> James Hegarty via INDOLOGY 
>> *Date: *Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
>> *To: *indology 
>> *Subject: *[INDOLOGY] Readings on Body Image and Body Ideals in Early
>> South Asia
>>
>> This email originated outside Colorado College. Do not click links or
>> attachments unless you know the content is safe.
>>
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> A student has asked me for some readings in this area and I am at a loss;
>> can anyone advise?
>>
>> Best Wishes,
>>
>> James Hegarty
>> Cardiff University
>>
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Re: [INDOLOGY] Readings on Body Image and Body Ideals in Early South Asia

2025-02-04 Thread Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY 
A Bull of a Man

Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism

John Powers

seems to be Buddhism centric.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674064034

On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM Tracy Coleman via INDOLOGY <
[email protected]> wrote:

> How about John Powers*, A Bull of a Man* (Harvard).
>
> Focus is on men and male body, showing also how the masculine ideal is
> always constructed in opposition to women, the female body, and femininity.
>
>
>
> --Tracy Coleman
>
>
>
> *From: *INDOLOGY  on behalf of James
> Hegarty via INDOLOGY 
> *Date: *Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
> *To: *indology 
> *Subject: *[INDOLOGY] Readings on Body Image and Body Ideals in Early
> South Asia
>
> This email originated outside Colorado College. Do not click links or
> attachments unless you know the content is safe.
>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> A student has asked me for some readings in this area and I am at a loss;
> can anyone advise?
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> James Hegarty
> Cardiff University
>
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Re: [INDOLOGY] Readings on Body Image and Body Ideals in Early South Asia

2025-02-04 Thread Corinna Wessels-Mevissen via INDOLOGY 
Particularly topical readings include:
Vidya Dehejia, The body adorned: dissolving boundaries between sacred and 
profane in India's art (NY, Columbia University Press), 2009;
and the catalogue
Naman Ahuja, The body in Indian art and thought (Brussels: Europalia 
international; Antwerp: Ludion), 2013.

Hope this helps, 

Corinna Wessels-Mevissen

Am Dienstag, 4. Februar 2025 um 20:42:00 MEZ hat Tracy Coleman via INDOLOGY 
 Folgendes geschrieben:  
 
How about John Powers, A Bull of a Man (Harvard).
 
Focus is on men and male body, showing also how the masculine ideal is always 
constructed in opposition to women, the female body, and femininity.
 
  
 
--Tracy Coleman
 
  
 
From:INDOLOGY  on behalf of James Hegarty 
via INDOLOGY 
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
To: indology 
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Readings on Body Image and Body Ideals in Early South Asia
 
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Dear Colleagues,

A student has asked me for some readings in this area and I am at a loss; can 
anyone advise?

Best Wishes,

James Hegarty
Cardiff University

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Re: [INDOLOGY] Readings on Body Image and Body Ideals in Early South Asia

2025-02-04 Thread Tracy Coleman via INDOLOGY 
How about John Powers, A Bull of a Man (Harvard).
Focus is on men and male body, showing also how the masculine ideal is always 
constructed in opposition to women, the female body, and femininity.

--Tracy Coleman

From: INDOLOGY  on behalf of James Hegarty 
via INDOLOGY 
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
To: indology 
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Readings on Body Image and Body Ideals in Early South Asia
This email originated outside Colorado College. Do not click links or 
attachments unless you know the content is safe.


Dear Colleagues,

A student has asked me for some readings in this area and I am at a loss; can 
anyone advise?

Best Wishes,

James Hegarty
Cardiff University

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