Early Kalinga Art and Architecture

Early Kalinga Art and Architecture

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Author: K V Soundara Rajan
Publisher: Sundeep Prakashan
Year: 1984
Language: English
Pages: 360
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175740329

Description

Kalinga or the modern Orissa has been justly celebrated for the rich architectural and sculptural fare its chief centres at Bhubanesvar, Konarak and Puri display. This book is designed to present the whole architectural growth of these Kalinga temples, through the insight of the textual data from the two sources, Bhuvanapradipa and Shilpaprakasha, with the objective of unravelling the growth of building techniques, designs, arts and cultic developments witnessed in the process of erection of temples of certain specific forms, in the triple orders of the Rekha, Khakhara and Pida categories, their vicissitudes, regional transfusions, art embellishments through motifs, iconographic paradigms and surface ornamentations all so characteristic only of Kalinga temples.

This book is adequately illustrated through drawings and plates, and provided with tabular charts on certain specific aspects of the Kalinga order.

Contents

PREFACE

LIST OF PLATES

1. Prologue
2. Materials, Techniques and Style
3. Textual Data
4. Narrative of Formal Development
5. Architectural Matrix
6. Motifs in Kalinga Art
7. Sculptural Art
8. In Retrospect

APPENDIX I-DATA TABULATION

APPENDIX-II-CULT INTERRELATIONSHIP IN KALINGA ART

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY

INDEX

NOTES ON PLATES

FIGURES

PLATES