OPENING THE TEMPLE: MEANING IN MATERIAL FORM AT THE KAILASANATHA TEMPLE IN KANCHIPURAM
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06 Apr
07 Apr
2021
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Indian Aesthetics
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Padma Kaimal
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Image: The Kailasanatha Temple, Kanchi P1010689 c P. Kaimal
The Kailasanatha temple complex, constructed ca 700-728 CE by men and women of the Pallava dynasty in Kanchipuram, reveals much about thought worlds of the ancient Indic south. The material elements of this complex fit together like the pieces of an elegant puzzle to articulate nurturing, fecund energies and triumph over threats from outside and within. This monument encourages both modes of being, holding them in dialogue and revealing them through secret and public signs.
6th April 2021
Session 1: Looking North and South: Celibacy and Intimacy, Struggle and Grace
Session 2: Looking East and West, with and without Sons: Deities, Royalty, Family, and Lineage
7th April 2021
Session 1: Circumambulating This Way and That: Complementarity Set in Motion
Session 2: Word-Image Tango: Telling Stories with Words and Sculptures
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Duration -
April 6, 7, 2021
Timing: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Fees
Rs. 2,000
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Padma Kaimal
Dr. Padma Kaimal is the Michael J. Batza Chair in Art History at Colgate University. Her research questions common assumptions about ancient art from the Tamil region. Her new book, Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space, reconstructs the aspirations, profound wisdom, Tantric secrets, and distinctive world view of ancient kings and queens of South India through the monument’s material forms. Her previous book, Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (2012) disrupts categories of East and West, scattering and collecting, as it traces the worship, ruination, dispersal, and re-enshrinement of nineteen sculptures from a 10th-century goddess temple.