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

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Darielle Mason Crispin Branfoot

Storied Stone

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

Darielle Mason, Crispin Branfoot, Eleanor H Coates , Susan P. Treadway

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Yale University Press
08 March 2022

History of Art & Design Styles; Non-graphic art forms; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Architecture; Asian history

A behind-the-scenes history of the sixteenth-century South Indian temple hall installation in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Storied Stone weaves together memories and scholarship to illuminate the multilayered history of the sole example of historical Indian stone temple architecture publicly displayed outside the subcontinent. While visiting Madurai, Tamil Nadu, in 1913, the Philadelphian Adeline Pepper Gibson purchased more than 60 huge 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. The installation was reconfigured in 1940 in the museum’s current building and reimagined 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. Offering fresh insights into the original context and meaning of the carvings, this volume also highlights the complexities of presenting the work in, and for, the twenty-first century.

By: Darielle Mason
Contributions by: Crispin Branfoot, Eleanor H Coates, Susan P. Treadway, Anna Lise Seastrand
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 267mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 1.077kg
ISBN: 9780876332412
ISBN 10: 0876332416
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 08 March 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Darielle Mason is the Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art and head of the Department of South Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.