Across the Threshold of India: Art, Women, and Culture

by Martha A. Strawn

An important and strikingly beautiful book about the sacred Hindu practice of threshold drawing

In the Hindu world-view, threshold is a profoundly important concept that represents a passage between one space and place and another, creating a visual bridge between the secular and the sacred. Accordingly, the literal threshold a person crosses when entering and exiting a home or business symbolizes the threshold one crosses between the physical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938086171
• ISBN13: 9781938086175
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: George F Thompson Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 5.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 10.3" x 12.1"