Chapter 10. Bound by Tradition?: An Investigation of the Extreme Dependency of Artists on Un-written Artistic Conventions for Dance Imagery in Sculpture and Painting

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. Chapter 1. Introduction: Embodiments of Dependencies and Freedoms in Asian Art 1
5. Chapter 2. Climate and Resource Dependencies in Buddhist Art and Architecture along the Northern Silk Road 33
6. Chapter 3. Temple Architecture in Coastal Karnataka: An Interplay of Climatic Dependencies and Artistic Freedoms 69
7. Chapter 4. Chinese Export Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty and its Dependence on Foreign Silver 97
8. Chapter 5. ‘Slaves of God’: Extreme Religious Dependency in Medieval South India (800–1100 CE) 121
9. Chapter 6. Usages and Instrumentalisations of the Sanskrit Term ‘Dāsī/Dāsa’ (Servant-Slave) in Pre-Colonial and Colonial South India: The Case of the Devadāsīs and Rājadāsīs 143
10. Chapter 7. Mediating Śakti: Embodied Dependencies and Senses in Teyyam, Malabar, South India 195
11. Chapter 8. Patterns of Dependency in the Buddhist Tantric Iconography of Nepal 239
12. Chapter 9. Dependence and Freedom in the Theory and Practice of Indian Temple Architecture 253
13. Chapter 10. Bound by Tradition?: An Investigation of the Extreme Dependency of Artists on Un-written Artistic Conventions for Dance Imagery in Sculpture and Painting 291
14. Chapter 11. Dependencies and Artistic Freedom in the Context of Himalayan Conservation Projects 319
15. Chapter 12. Countering Cerebral Invasions: Sculptors Against Dependencies 347
16. Chapter 13. The Story Tellers of Mysore: Regime Change and the Musarrati Performance Artists of Tipu Sultan’s Court 365
17. Chapter 14. Indigenous Modernities in Dependent Princely States: Design of Public and Civic Spaces in Baroda 389
18. Glossary 409
19. List of Plates 425
20. Notes on Contributors 433
21. Index 437