Author: Dehejia, Vidya
Title: Devi, the Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Art
Description: Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1999. Hardcover. Color illus. dj.; Orange cloth over boards; Illustrated endpapers; 408 pp. Profuse color and bw plates. Foreword by Milo Cleveland Beach, essays by the author (Encountering Devi), Thomas B. Coburn (The Threefold Vision of the Devi Mahatmya), George Michell (Temples to the Goddess), Dennis Hudson (Ritual Worship of Devi), author and Sagaree Sengupta (Poetic Visions of the Great Goddess: Tamu Nidal and Bengal), Terence McInerney (Mysterious Origins: The Tantric Devi Series from Basohli), Cornelia Mallebrein (Tribal and Local Deities: Assimilations and Transformations), Tapati Guha-Thakurta (Clothing the Goddess: The Modern Contest over Representations of Devi), and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Moving Devi), as well as a lavish catalogue. VG/VG dustjacket is in mylar. Exlibrary with small label at base of dustjacket, ownership stamp at top and bottom of text block, Very clean copy overall .

Keywords: Hindu; Bengali; Devi; Religious; Asian ; Asian Religious Art ; Bengali ; Devi Museum Exhibitions - Asian Art


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