Head and heart : [Book] : valour and self-sacrifice in the art of India / Mary Storm.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextDescription: lxvi, 353 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780415812467 (hardback)
  • 1317325567
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.54 23
Other classification:
  • 709.54
Summary: An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.
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Originally published: 2013.

An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.

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