Abstract
Relationships between text and image in pre-modern South Asia1 have been both ignored and exploited throughout the history of western scholarship [...]
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Introduction to the Special IssueSeeing and Reading: Art and Literature in Pre-Modern Indian ReligionsSonya Rhie Mace 1,* and Phyllis Granoff 2,*Citation: Mace, Sonya Rhie, and Phyllis Granoff. 2021
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The other impulse has been to find a textual excerpt to explain a work of visual art, as though the image were an illustration based on a written source
Summary
Introduction to the Special IssueSeeing and Reading: Art and Literature in Pre-Modern Indian ReligionsSonya Rhie Mace 1,* and Phyllis Granoff 2,*. Many nineteenth-century pioneers in the field published thousands of inscriptions and textual translations divorced from any discussion of the sculptures, murals, or temples on which they were written, while the paintings in manuscripts were ignored.
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