Clay Works: Earthen Sculpture in South Asia - Image 1

Price loading...

Bloomsbury Clay Works: Earthen Sculpture in South Asia

Name: Clay Works: Earthen Sculpture in South Asia
Brand: Bloomsbury

Technique

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Until recently, polychrome terracruda (air-dried clay) sculpture has been virtually absent from exhibitions and scholarship on South Asian art history. This is beginning to change. As early Indic texts and accounts published in the last few centuries attest, this malleable and dynamic medium has played a fundamental role in the region’s visual arts. This boundary-breaking book traces the longstanding interactions between clay, sculptors, and their clienteles; shaping and reshaping religious practices, social formations, and aesthetic values across the region. The first chapter explores the history of terracruda as artistic medium; the following two chapters present long trajectories of practice in the Buddhist Himalayas and the Deccan; and the latter two chapters offer insight into terracruda sculpture’s role in cultural transformations—the 18th and 19th-century artistic florescence in Bengal, and British colonial displays of terracruda figures at international exhibitions. Employing an ecological approach that recognizes substances, things, and objects as players in the world, Clay Works celebrates the contributions of clay’s supple plasticity and ephemerality and brings a much-needed and timely perspective to South Asian art history.

Product Specifications

Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1350505048
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Sculpture > Technique
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 05 February 2026
Listed Since: 11 April 2025

Barcode

No barcode data available

Bloomsbury Clay Works: Earthen Sculpture in South Asia

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Materiality of Terracotta Sculpture in Early Modern Europe (Routledge Research in Art History)

From Temple to Museum: Colonial Collections and Umā Maheśvara Icons in the Middle Ganga Valley (Archaeology and Religion in South Asia)

The Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public

Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia: Craftspeople and Performers (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

Asian Art: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies in Art History)

The Ceramics Reader

Contemporary British Ceramics and the Influence of Sculpture: Monuments, Multiples, Destruction and Display (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

Archaeology and Buddhism in South Asia

Routledge - Crafts and Craftsmen in Pre-colonial Eastern India

Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia: Decoding Visual Worlds

Routledge - Power, Presence and Space: South Asian Rituals

Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes: Seeing South Asian Art Anew (Visual and Media Histories)

Trench Art: Materialities and Memories of War

Casting the Parthenon Sculptures from the Eighteenth Century to the Digital Age

Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art, 1500-Present

Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies: Knowledge to Be Made (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

An Earthly Paradise: Early Modern Bengal - Routledge Books

Negotiating Cultural Identity: Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History (Archaeology and Religion in South Asia)

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy)

Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters: A Comparative Study of Energy Use, Production/Environmental Ecology, and Kiln Development in Arita, Hong Kong,: ... in Arita, Hong Kong, Jingdezhen, and Yingge

The Visual Turn: South Asia Across the Disciplines

Routledge - The Visual Turn: South Asia Across the Disciplines

Animals in Stone: Indian Mammals Sculptured Through Time (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia): 21

Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in South Asia