Visnu and Harihara in the art and politics of early historic Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia).

详细信息   

• 作者：Lavy ; Paul Andrew.
• 学历：Doctor
• 年：2004
• 导师：Brown, Robert
• 毕业院校：University of California
• 专业：Art History.;History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.
• ISBN：049609162X
• CBH：3149832
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：26244329
• Pages：585

文摘

The mitered Vis&dotbelow;n&dotbelow;u image was among the earliest and most ubiquitous anthropomorphic stone sculpture in ancient Southeast Asia. For the first time, this study attempts to bring together the better part of the entire corpus of mitered Vis&dotbelow;n&dotbelow;us and analyze them as a group that includes sculptures of the sixth-seventh centuries from the Mekong River Valley of southern Vietnam and Cambodia, peninsular Thailand, western Java, and South Sumatra, as well as ca. eighth-century images from Si Thep (Thailand) and ninth-century images from Phnom Kulen (Cambodia). In addition to reassessing the chronology and stylistic relationships of the mitered Vis&dotbelow;n&dotbelow;us, this study seeks to situate them in the context of early Southeast Asian political developments.;The importance of Hindu deities in early Southeast Asia was linked to patterns of political authority and the ruling elite, whether kings or chiefs, utilized images of the gods with these considerations in mind. With specific reference to Preangkorian civilization, the deities Vis&dotbelow;n&dotbelow;u and Siva embodied two different conceptions of sovereignty and images of these deities were employed to exploit these contrasting notions according to location and styles of rule.;These practices are perhaps best understood through analysis of a third case, Harihara, a composite Hindu deity that experienced a brief but pronounced period of efflorescence during the Preangkorian period due to particular political circumstances in Khmer society. By unifying Siva and Vis&dotbelow;n&dotbelow;u in one anthropomorphic form, Khmer images of Harihara served as a divine analogue for the concentration of two forms of royal power. Seventh-century rulers based in northern Cambodia, where the style of rule was linked to Siva, were trying to assert and/or maintain control over coastal areas to the south, where Vis&dotbelow;n&dotbelow;u had been the traditional symbol of royal power. These rulers, consequently, employed an icon that represented the union of both these deities, and the concurrent conceptions of authority represented by each, in order to represent and legitimize their own territorial and political aspirations.