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Image Record ID:
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Work Title (display):
Ashoka at Kalinga
Image Title:
total view from front in landscape setting
Work Description:
In this statue, located in the grounds of the Hotel Maurya Sheraton, Mera Mukherjee applies traditional techniques -- variations on the lost-wax casting method -- used by the sculptors of the Bastar tribe in central India. Stylistically, the traditional arts of Bastar is seen in the statue's intricate surface details, while the abstract modelling is indicative of twentieth-century European art. Political overtones are expressed in the depiction of the Maurya emperor Ashoka (ca. third century BC), who at the battlefield of Kalinga, adopted the Buddhist belief system, and in turn a pacifist approach, as state policy.
Work Dates (display):
1972
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Meera Mukherjee (Indian, 1923-1998)
Work Creator gender:
female
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Work Creator notes (display):
(b Calcutta, 12 May 1923). Indian sculptor. After studying at the Government School of Art in Calcutta and the Delhi Polytechnic, Delhi, she received in 1953 a scholarship to study at the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste in Munich, where she worked under Toni Stadler and Heinrich Kirchner. On returning to India she began to work from 1957 with the tribal artisans of Bastar and to learn techniques from bell metal craftsmen in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. By the 1960s she had achieved recognition for her work and in 1968 was awarded the President's Award of Master Craftsman in metalwork. From 1969 she funded her own tours in Madhya Pradesh but later received a two-year stipend from the Anthropological Survey of India to assist her research. She documented ritual vessels and items in bell metal and surveyed the work of indigenous metal craftsmen in India and Nepal. Like the metalworkers she studied, she employed the lost-wax process for her metal sculptures and worked seasonally, taking a year on each image and casting no more than six or seven in a year. She worked on large- and small-scale works, and her sculpted figures often have a quiet poise (e.g. standing figure of a woman; bronze, h. c 1.35 m; New Delhi, N.G. Mod. A.). Her style is influenced by the folk art she encountered, and her repertory includes such archetypal figures as the archer, bowman and boatswain, as well as figures from daily life. Based in Calcutta, she exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world (e.g. New Delhi, N.G. Mod. A.; Frankfurt am Main, Hermann Abs Mus.). She also received an Emeritus Fellowship from the Indian government. Her works are in a number of private and public collections in India and abroad. (Grove Art Online accessed 2007-10-23)
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Subject:
Maurya Empire (322185 BCE)
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Maurya Empire (322185 BCE)
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Work Subject:
Buddhism
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Buddhism
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Work Subject:
Ashoka, King of Magadha (fl. 259 B.C.)
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Ashoka, King of Magadha (fl. 259 B.C.)
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Work Subject:
Bastar (Princely State)
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Bastar (Princely State)
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Work Subject:
Greece (modern)
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Greece (modern)
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Work Subject:
history sculptures
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history sculptures
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Work Subject:
history (discipline)
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history (discipline)
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Work Worktype:
casts (sculpture)
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casts (sculpture)
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
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Work Material and Technique (display):
bronze
Work Measurements (display):
3.53 m (H)
Work Location (Geographic) name:
New Delhi, India
Image Rights (display):
© Ronald Wiedenhoeft. Licensed for educational use via Scholars Resource: Saskia, Ltd.
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Work Rights (display):
© Meera Mukherjee
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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