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Can a religious object truly also be an object of art? Can it be critiqued, appreciated, enjoyed by the general public, not just a partisan band of artists-artisans, art historians, critics and connoisseurs but the laity? Can caste be a flexible boundary? Can voices and vocations unfetter its shackles and allow a crossing over with impunity?
This richly illustrated book offers answers to these conundrums and more. It tells the story of god-makers and of the gods they make. This book offers a detailed photographic exposition of the entire process of the making of objects, including the rituals and ceremonies that envelope it, and the modes and means of interchange between artist and audience that shape it in substance and imagination. It speaks of aesthetic endeavor and social order, and the
astonishing outcome sometimes wrought by a masterful melding of the two.
