http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f74-subject%3Dhedonism Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f74-subject=hedonism Sat, 01 Jan 2005 12:00:00 GMT http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/data/text/1430/1430.txt This article traces the trajectory of a commonplace object, the wine-cup in Mughal court culture, using painting as a source. Initially associated with hedonistic pleasure alone, the wine-cup came to be represented, in allegories of ‘wineandverse’,as alocus fortherealisationof ‘divinereality’, having gnostic values. The imagery of mystical intoxication further imbued the object with a political meaning, in which the cup became a ‘world in miniature’ and the wine in it, the elixir of life, thereby legitimising the Mughal monarchy in a cosmological framework of universal and immortal rulership. However, the imagery came a full circle, when in the course of the eighteenth century, from its association with male rulership, it came to be exclusively associated with female eroticism and pure hedonism. http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/data/text/1430/1430.txt Sat, 01 Jan 2005 12:00:00 GMT