Imagining architects
Subtitle: creativity in the religious monuments of India
By: Ajay J. Sinha.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Newark, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Vesara style (Architecture); Architecture, Hindu -- India -- Karnataka; Temples -- India -- Karnataka; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Description: "Imagining Architects explores the nature of visual inventions in the religious architecture of India using an analytical framework that gives makers of religious monuments a visibility commonly denied to them in the historiography of Indian art and architecture. The exploration is based on a series of unusual formal experiments documented in a group of stone temples built in the eleventh century in the Karnataka region of southern India.

The author shows (in these experiments) a deliberate search for a new architectural principle, using textual evidence and inscriptions referring to architects. The author also demonstrates a self-conscious modernity of Karnataka's makers, who negotiated architectural traditions and religious ideas to radically change a previous architectural norm dominating the region."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-209) and index.