Primary Sources - Enriching Your Topic - RELG 303: Images of Krishna (HC)

Source Anthologies

Collections of primary texts in anthologies can be good for browsing. They touch on many different issues, often excerpting brief passages from full works that you can find in the tricolleges or through interlibrary loan.

At Play with Krishna by John Stratton Hawley
ISBN: 9781400859122

Publication Date: 2014-07-14

Every year thousands of pilgrims travel to Brindavan, the village where Krishna is said to have lived as a child. There, they witness a series of religious dramas called ras lilas, whose central roles are performed by children. By translating four plays that collectively span this cycle, John Hawley provides a lively perspective on the mythology of Krishna as Hindus experience it today.
Krishna: A Sourcebook by Edwin F. Bryant
ISBN: 9780195148923

Publication Date: 2007-06-18

In the West Krishna is primarily known as the speaker of the Bhagavad Gita. But it is the stories of Krishna's childhood and his later exploits that have provided some of the most important and widespread sources of religious narrative in the Hindu religious landscape. This volume bringstogether new translations of representative samples of Krishna religious literature from a variety of genres -- classical, popular, regional, sectarian, poetic, literary, and philosophical.
Krishna, the Butter Thief by John Stratton Hawley
ISBN: 9781400855407

Publication Date: 2014-07-14

The author traces the development of the theme of Krishna as butter thief from its earliest appearance in literature and art until the present. He focuses on the dramas (ras lilas) of Krishna's native Braj and on the Sur Sagar, a collection of verse attributed to the sixteenth-century poet Sur Das that is as familiar to Hindi speakers as Mother Goose is to us.

Image Sources

JSTOR Images (formerly Artstor)
A collection that provides access to thousands of digital images derived from a variety of museums, libraries and archives. Images support a variety of disciplines including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, and decorative arts.
It has the majority of the material you will find in TriArte, but with higher quality images of our collection. At the top of the page, click on "Enter Artstor Digital Library" and either login or sign up at the top of the page. This allows you to save images in folders and download them to your desktop..
In the sAdvanced Search you can specify country, time period and format of the artwork as well as subject.

Devi: The Great Goddess
An online exhibition from the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Images of Krishna at the Art Institute of Chicago
Krishna: Mythology and Worship
Online exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum.