Mary Storm

Head and Heart (eBook, ePUB)

Valour and Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317325567
• Artikelnr.: 43616193

Autorenporträt

Mary Storm is Academic Director, SIT Study Abroad India: National Identity and the Arts and Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture.