"Garland of Visions explores the generative relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in the construction andcirculation of visual knowledge in medieval South Asia. Shifting away fromthe traditional connoisseur approach, Jinah Kim instead focuses on themateriality of painting: its mediums, its visions, and especially itscolors. She argues that the adoption of the pothi-format manuscript as amedium for painting in Indic religious circles enabled the materialtranslation of a private and internal experience of "seeing" into a portabledevice. These mobile and intimate objects then became important conveyers ofmany forms of knowledge--ritual, artistic, social, scientific, andreligious--and spurred the spread of visual knowledge of Indic Buddhism todistant lands. By taking color as the material link between a vision and itsartistic output, Garland of Visions presents a paradigm-shifting materialhistory of Indian painting"-- Provided by publisher.