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Kalamkari Temple Hangings

by Anna L. Dallapiccola and Rosemary Crill

A first of its kind, this volume presents a fully illustrated compilation of 19 kalamkari pieces from the V&A collection.
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222 x 286 mm | 8.75 x 11.25 in
Hardcover | 192 pages
120 colour illustrations

ISBN:
978-93-85360-04-6 (Mapin)
978-1-935677-62-8 (Grantha)^?

PRICE:
Rs.2,950.00 | $65.00 | £35.00 | €50.00

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Table of contents

Introduction

The Ramayana: ‘Contructed, Killed and Brought’

Ramayana Chirala

Ramayana Machilipatnam

Ramayana Srikalahasti

Ramayana Srikalahasti (English captions)

Ramayana Sri Lanka

Ramayana: Selected Scenes

Balakanda Madurai

Yuddhakanda Madurai

Krishnacharita Coastal Andhra

Two Episodes from the Mahabharata

The Killing of Shishupala Madurai

The Duel between Karna and Arjuna Madurai

Two Ganga Hangings

Ganga Dupatti Machilipatnam

Mahalakshmi Pithakam Machilipatnam

Introduction to Holy Sites

Sri Subrahmanya Temple, Tiruchendur

Sri Subrahmanyaswami Temple, Tirupparankunram

Sri Ranganathaswami Temple, Srirangam

Alagar Koyil Chittirai Festival

The Life of Christ Srikalahasti

Bibliography

Glossary

Acknowledgements

Selected Images

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has the world’s most important collection of 19th-century temple hangings from South India. Commissioned by Hindu temples and monasteries (maths), and by individuals for religious use, the hangings were produced in the kalamkari style of hand drawing, mordant-dyeing and painting. Striking in artistry, and imposing in size, these temple hangings represent a complex technique that reached its highest expression in southern India.

The majority of these pieces are from coastal Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu, with one extraordinary Ramayana hanging from Sri Lanka. All of them date from the 19th century except for one astonishing 20th-century hanging from Srikalahasti, depicting the life of Christ in the traditional Hindu kalamkari style.

A first of its kind, this volume presents a fully illustrated compilation of nineteen pieces from the V&A collection, accompanied by translations of their inscriptions, and a summary of the story depicted therein. The ‘frame-by-frame’ analyses of these narratives yield a fascinating range of stories, from versions of the Ramayana to local epics.

Bringing this previously unpublished collection together, the book provides us with a new look at the remarkable variety of regional artistic traditions, and allows us to celebrate the master craftsmen whose names are now known to us.

Anna L. Dallapiccola is Honorary Professor at Edinburgh University. She was Professor of Indian Art at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University from 1971 to 1995, and has presented number of papers and authored many books on the subject.

Rosemary Crill is a Senior Curator in the Asian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Her most recent publication is The Fabric of India (V&A, 2015)

Praise

"Apart from the complexities of the artwork they represent, these kalamkaris offer an insight into storytelling and how these epics have been retold in innumerable ways with regional variations but without disturbing the main narrative."

--Diana Ningthoujam, Times of India

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