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TIMES
Ajit
Mookerjee
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THE
ARTS
OF
INDIA
by
Ajit
Mookerjee
COMPREHENSIVE,
inexpensive
books
on
the
arts
of
the
great
Indian
sub-continent
number
few
among
the
world's
fine
art
volumes.
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One
reason
for
this
has
been
the
lateness
of
archeological
research
in
this
area,
another
has
probably been
due
to
the
prudery
of
those
who
condemned
much
Indian
art
as
pornography.
Yet
India's
arts
are
infinitely
lively
more
than
those
of
Egypt
or
Sumer,
equally
awe-
inspiring,
and
just
as
ancient.
A
book
to
bring
this
great
art
to the
attention
of
students
and
art
lovers
has
long
been
needed.
This
revised
and
en-
larged
edition
of
The
Arts
of
India
more
than
fills
the
need
with
over
color
illustrations.
objects
50
impressive
gravure
and
full-
These
include
various
important
1
and
monuments
not
usually
seen
in
general
surveys
to
supplement
the
many
essential
art
mile-
stones
that
this
book
features.
The
Arts
of
India
is
also
unique
in
beginning
ics
its
visual
survey
with
rel-
of
India's
stone
age
and
in
concluding
the
book
with
works from
the
nation's
great
folk
tradition
and
selected
paintings
by
modern
artists.
For
once,
here
is
a
book
with
captions
and
a
text
that
are
highly
readable
blends of
scholarly
infor-
mation
and
informal
comment
by
an
Indian
art
ex-
pert.
This
grants
the
reader
special
insights
into
the
lie
concepts
that
behind
art
so
different
from
that
of
the
West.
Author
Mookerjee
has
judiciously
selected
photo-
graphs
which
present
the
vast
panorama
of
Indian
art
from
its
earliest
beginnings.
Moving
on
to
the
products
of
the
ancient
Indus
Valley
civilization,
with
its
exquisite
seals
and
variety
of
statuettes,
the
reader
thenavilnesses
the
rise
of
Buddhism
as
it
is
dram^lfeed
in
great
stupa
bas-reliefs
cave
temples.
Art
from
the
remote
valleys
of
Gan-
and
rock-hewn
dhara,
whpre
there
was
influence
from
the
classic
art
of
Europe;
examples
of
early
images
of
the
Buddha
from
Mathura; and
mural
art
in
the
the great
blossoming
of
life
artistic
Ajanta
caves bring
to
activity
that
preceded
the
Hindu
renaissance.
A
re-
surgence
of
India's
traditional
religion
then
forever
pushed
Buddhism
into
the
shadows
in
the
land
of
its
birth.
its
This
is
first
reflected
in
cave-temple
art,
but
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San
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ARTS
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INDIA

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