Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life Of Sacred Bronzes From Chola India, C.855-1280
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31 Jan
02 Feb
2019
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Indian Aesthetics
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Vidya Dehejia
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Image : Queen Sembiyan Mahadevi as Uma, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
In this illustrated seminar series, Vidya Dehejia discusses the graceful luminous sculptures of high copper content created by artists of Chola India, treating them as tangible objects that interact in a concrete way with human activities and socio-economic practices. She asks questions of this material that have never been asked before so that these sensuous portrayals of the divine gain their full meaning through a critical study of information captured via a variety of lenses.
Day 1
- Gods on Parade: Sacred Forms of Copper
- Shiva as “Victor of Three Forts”: Battling for Empire, 855-955
Day 2
- Portrait of a Queen: Patronage of Dancing Shiva, c. 941-1002
- An 11th century Master: Ten Thousand Pearls Adorn a Bronze
Day 3
- Chola Obsession with Sri Lanka & the Silk Route of the Sea in the 11th and 12th centuries
- Worship in Uncertain Times: The Secret Burial of Bronzes in 1310.
Duration -
January 31 ; February 2, 2019
Timing: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Fees
Rs. 3,000
Registrations Closed
Vidya Dehejia
Vidya Dehejia is Barbara Stoler Miller Professor Emerita of Indian Art at Columbia University in New York, and author of a wide range of books on the history of Indian art. As a museum professional between 1994-2002, she served as Chief Curator, Deputy Director, and Acting Director of the Smithsonian’s Freer & Sackler Galleries in Washington DC.Her most recent books include The Thief Who Stole my Heart: The Material Life of Sacred Bronzes from Chola India, 855-1280 (2021), India: A Story through 100 Objects (2021),The Unfinished. Stone Carvers at Work on the Indian Subcontinent (Roli Books., 2015), The Body Adorned (Columbia University Press, 2012). In 2012, the President of India awarded her a Padma Bhushan for “Outstanding Contribution to Art & Education.”