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Explore the Visual history of yoga at Smithsonian

Washington: Smithsonian, the world's largest museum and research complex here, is launching a major crowdfunding campaign May 29 to support what it calls the world's first exhibition on the visual history of yoga."Yoga: The Art

IANS Published : May 17, 2013 11:12 IST, Updated : May 17, 2013 12:41 IST


The exhibition features 90 stone and bronze sculptures, richly illustrated manuscripts and lavish court paintings created from the third to the early 19th century.

Later 19th- and early 20th-century materials -including photographs, missionary postcards, magic posters, medical illustrations, iconographic manuals and early films - chart the vilification of yoga in the colonial period and the subsequent emergence of the modern discipline in India.

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