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AS1 Literature review (750-1,000 words)

AS2 Essay (2,000-2,500 words)

Guidelines for AS1 and AS2

Foundations: Background Reading and Introductory Resources

Hinduism and Hindu Art - Metropolitan Museum of Art essay

Recognizing the Gods - Metropolitan Museum of Art essay

George Michell 'Introduction: Hinduism and its visual expression' in Hindu Art and Architecture (2000), pp. 10-36

Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism (online)

Frazier, Jessica. The Bloomsbury Companion to Hindu Studies. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014 [Ebook].

Dictionary of Art = Grove Art Online

1. Cultural foundations of south India

1. Cultural Foundations - P/P as pdf

1. Cultural foundations - lecture recording

2. Making monuments at Mamallapuram

Ch8 'Creating Granite Monolithic Temples' in Dehejia, Vidya, and Peter Rockwell. The Unfinished: Stone Carvers at Work on the Indian Subcontinent. New Delhi: Roli Books, 2016.

Huntington, Susan L. ‘Iconographic Reflections on the Arjuna Ratha’. In Kaladarsana: American Studies in the Art of India, edited by Joanna G. Williams, 57–67. New Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta: Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., 1981.

Ch8 'Creating Granite Monolithic Temples' in Dehejia, Vidya, and Peter Rockwell. The Unfinished: Stone Carvers at Work on the Indian Subcontinent. New Delhi: Roli Books, 2016 [pdf attached].

2. Making monuments at Mamallapuram (P/P as pdf)

2. Making monuments at Mamallapuram - link to lecture recording

3. Pallava patronage and the Tamil temple

Rabe, Michael D. "The Mamallapuram Prasasti: A Panegyric in Figures." Artibus Asiae LVII, no. 3/4 (1997): 189-241 [JSTOR]

Nagaswamy, R. ‘Innovative Emperor and His Personal Chapel: Eighth Century Kanchipuram’. In Royal Patrons and Great Temple Art, edited by Vidya Dehejia, 37–60. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1988.

3. Pallava patronage and the Tamil temple (P/P as pdf)

3. Pallava patronage and the Tamil temple - lecture recording

Week 3 seminar recording

4. Landscapes of devotion in medieval Tamilnadu

4. Landscapes of devotion in medieval Tamilnadu (P/P as pdf)

Orr 2005 Identity and Divinity

Owen 2010 - Jina images at Kalugumalai

4. Landscapes of devotion in medieval Tamilnadu - link to lecture recording

5. Imperial temples, goddesses and the gopura

'Introduction: Locating the Tradition' in Davis, Richard H. Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshiping Śiva in Medieval India. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.

'A tale of two emperors' in Dehejia, Vidya. Art of the Imperial Cholas. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Leslie C. Orr, ‘Cholas, Pandyas, and “Imperial Temple Culture” in Medieval Tamilnadu’

5. Imperial temples (PP as pdf)

6. Who’s who in the south Indian temple

'The Idealized Body and Ornament' in Dehejia, Vidya. The Body Adorned: Dissolving Boundaries between Sacred and Profane in India’s Art. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

6. Who’s who in the south Indian temple - P/P as pdf

6. Who’s who in the south Indian temple - lecture recording

7. Living images and Hindu ritual

Chapter 1 'Living Images' in Davis, Richard H. Lives of Indian Images. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Narayanan, Vasudha. ‘Arcavatara: On Earth as He Is in Heaven’. In Gods of Flesh, Gods of Stone: The Embodiment of Divinity in India, edited by Norman Cutler, Joanna P. Waghorne, and Vasudha Narayanan, 53–66. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.

7. Living images and Hindu ritual (P/P as pdf)

8. Festivals, processions and temple urbanism

Orr, Leslie C. ‘Processions in the Medieval South Indian Temple: Sociology, Sovereignty and Soteriology’. In South Indian Horizons, edited by Jean-Luc Chevillard and Eva Wilden, 437–70 (2004).

Branfoot 2020 chapter

Seastrand 2019

8. Festivals, processions and Tamil temple urbanism (P/P as pdf)

8. Festivals, processions and temple urbanism (lecture recording)

9. Beyond Tamilnadu: the temple and the transmission of architectural knowledge

Michell 1994 Revivalism

Sinopoli 2003

Branfoot 2015

9. Beyond Tamilnadu (PP as pdf)

9. Beyond Tamilnadu (lecture recording)

10. Histories and Historiography: encountering the Tamil temple

Mitter, Partha. ‘“Decadent” Art of South Indian Temples’. In Views of Difference, Different Views of Art, edited by Catherine King, 93–118. New Haven and London: Yale University Press and The Open University, 1999.

10. Histories and Historiography - lecture recording

10. Histories and Historiography (PP as pdf)

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