Storied Stone: Reframing the Philadelphia Museum of Art's South Indian Temple Hall

by Mason, Darielle
ISBN: 9780876332412
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Overview

Storied Stone weaves together memories, research, and scholarship to illuminate the multilayered history of the sole example of South Indian stone temple architecture publicly displayed outside the subcontinent. While visiting Madurai, Tamil Nadu, in 1913, the Philadelphian Adeline Pepper Gibson purchased 64 monumental granite carvings. Given in 1919 to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, these architectural elements were arranged to form a temple hall (mandapam) in the museum's original building in 1920. In 1940, the installation was reconfigured in the museum's current building and updated in 2016.

The tale that unfolds--part detective story, part museum history, part case study--explores a century of debate about exhibition, authenticity, and interpretation within the museum, brought to life by striking new photography and never-before-published archival images.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Mason, Darielle
  • ISBN: 9780876332412
  • Condition: Used
  • Number Of Pages: 248
  • Publication Year: 2022