roots indian art de gupta (5 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : New. ISBN: 9788176467667.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Interior is clean and unmarked. Inside cover has original owner inscription partially crossed out. Dustjacket has shelf wear and some discoloration.

120 b/w plates, 4 Col. plates, 167 b/w figs (illustrateur). Reprint. Contents Preface 1 The pillars 2 Ringstones 3 The sculpture and art motifs 4 The terracottas 5 The rock cut caves 6 The architecture 7 The polemics Summing up Appendices Select Bibliography IndexCivilization sophistication and curtains apparently go together; for as urbanization grows man closes the windows of his house veils them with colourful drapes and shuts out light So too does he screen his mind with cherished beliefs and makes them proof against doubts and new concepts Occasionally some one arrives begins to doubt and starts questioning the established views SP Gupta does exactly this in The Roots of Indian Art He has pushed aside the blinds thrown open the Oeil-de-boeui and allowed light to pour in so that the Formative Period 300-200 BC Mauryan and Late Mauryan of Indian art and architecture is better illuminatedThe root of the huge tree of Indian Art goes deep into time and spreads over a large part of the oriental world To trace the roots of this towering evergreen is o mean task The colossal nature of the undertaking can be gauged from the fact that the geographical territories covered here include vast areas from three continents-Europe Asia and Africa with their diverse traditions in art architecture culture language race and people Yet the author has encompassed his them within the confines of a single fully documented and comprehensive volume He has marshaled a large array of facts and figures and presented them in six chapters such as The pillars the ringstones the sculptures and art motifs the terracottas the rock cut caves and the architecture each one neatly divided into short bibliography arranged in historical perspective complete documentation and highly penetrating discussion He has provided aids to comprehension in the shape of hundreds of illustrations such as maps charts sketches photographs and coloured plates Further he has encapsulated the quintessence of his thesis in the chapter titled The Polemics and also Summing Up The Backdrop discusses some of the fundamental questions regarding the background of the formative period of Indian ArtThis book shall serve as a beacon to all research scholars students and interested readers tormented by doubts and questions and enable them to appreciate the art and architecture of Early India more intimately than hitherto 377 pp.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good binding. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Quarto; xx. [2]. 378 pages, followed by 120 pages of black and white photographic plates; with colored frontispiece.~~A clean copy of the First Edition printing with no ownership or other marks of any kind. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Hardback 29 x 22.5cms.