• Ankur Goyat,

In sculptures of Western Group of Temples, Khajuraho and Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai, one finds a rare reflection of their “self”. On examining the stone deities and their subjects closely, a sound of the contemporary hullabaloo of sculpted bodies and magnificent physical form is reiterated into one’s own mind. That is, every statue of a woman reveals the present day infatuation of achieving the ideal bodily form. Ranging from shape large hips and chests, small waists, rounded bellies, plump faces, dimpled chins, bee-stung lips. The sculptures display the nakedness of the compulsive obsession of society for unrealistic and more importantly metaphysical ideas of the body. Carved into stone for eternity and displayed as art on screen, the idea of the body being visually represented and reflected has been in a way historical and simultaneously current. Many of the figurines in both the temples resonate with the modern-day conception of a woman with superficial beauty standards

Sculptures to Sex Dolls: Body Positivity and Experimental Forms of Expression

"Sculptures to Sex Dolls: Body Positivity and Experimental Forms of Expression", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.86-89, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903J14.pdf

"Sculptures to Sex Dolls: Body Positivity and Experimental Forms of Expression", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp86-89, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903J14.pdf