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Taj Mahal / G. H. R Tillotson, Giles Tillotson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wonders of the world : 20Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]Copyright date: 2008Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674063655
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.0257092
LOC classification:
  • DS486.A3 T88 2008
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: ORIENTATION -- 1. THE PLAYERS -- 2. THE DESIGN -- 3. EVERYBODY’S TAJ -- 4. HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN -- 5. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD -- MAKING A VISIT? -- FURTHER READING -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INDEX
Summary: An enduring monument of haunting beauty, the Taj Mahal seems a symbol of stability itself. The familiar view of the glowing marble mausoleum from the gateway entrance offers the very picture of permanence. And yet this extraordinary edifice presents a shifting image to observers across time and cultures. The meaning of the Taj Mahal, the perceptions and responses it prompts, ideas about the building and the history that shape them: these form the subject of Giles Tillotson’s book. More than a richly illustrated history—though it is that as well—this book is an eloquent meditation on the place of the Taj Mahal in the cultural imagination of India and the wider world.Since its completion in 1648, the mausoleum commissioned by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, has come to symbolize many things: the undying love of a man for his wife, the perfection of Mughal architecture, the ideal synthesis of various strands of subcontinental aesthetics, even an icon of modern India itself. Exploring different perspectives brought to the magnificent structure—by a Mughal court poet, an English Romantic traveler, a colonial administrator, an architectural historian, or a contemporary Bollywood filmmaker—this book is an incomparable guide through the varied and changing ideas inspired by the Taj Mahal, from its construction to our day. In Tillotson’s expert hands, the story of a seventeenth-century structure in the city of Agra reveals itself as a story about our own place and time.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: ORIENTATION -- 1. THE PLAYERS -- 2. THE DESIGN -- 3. EVERYBODY’S TAJ -- 4. HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN -- 5. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD -- MAKING A VISIT? -- FURTHER READING -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INDEX

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An enduring monument of haunting beauty, the Taj Mahal seems a symbol of stability itself. The familiar view of the glowing marble mausoleum from the gateway entrance offers the very picture of permanence. And yet this extraordinary edifice presents a shifting image to observers across time and cultures. The meaning of the Taj Mahal, the perceptions and responses it prompts, ideas about the building and the history that shape them: these form the subject of Giles Tillotson’s book. More than a richly illustrated history—though it is that as well—this book is an eloquent meditation on the place of the Taj Mahal in the cultural imagination of India and the wider world.Since its completion in 1648, the mausoleum commissioned by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, has come to symbolize many things: the undying love of a man for his wife, the perfection of Mughal architecture, the ideal synthesis of various strands of subcontinental aesthetics, even an icon of modern India itself. Exploring different perspectives brought to the magnificent structure—by a Mughal court poet, an English Romantic traveler, a colonial administrator, an architectural historian, or a contemporary Bollywood filmmaker—this book is an incomparable guide through the varied and changing ideas inspired by the Taj Mahal, from its construction to our day. In Tillotson’s expert hands, the story of a seventeenth-century structure in the city of Agra reveals itself as a story about our own place and time.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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