Author: Kapila Vatsyayan
Publisher: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture
Year: 1937
Language: English
Pages: 1068
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187332492
Description
The present volume (Vol. VII, Part One) following the plan and structure of the previous volumes in The Cultural Heritage of India series of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture. The contributors include the stalwarts who were responsible for laying the foundation of the discipline of art history as distinct from both archaeology and social and political history.
Besides introduction the other forty articles grouped under four sections – Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy and Numismatics, and Indian Art and the east – encompass different facets of each genre. Among these are seminal contributions by scholars such as Nirmal Kuar Bose, O.C. Gangoly, Sella Kramrisch, D.C. Sircar and of course, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, who raised theoretical issues of great significance which continue to be relevant. This is clear from the contribution of younger scholars included in this volume.
In the last analyses, it is the spirit and experience manifested in this art, which is perennial and not time-bound. This is the reason why the varied artistic traditions of India engage us today. This art, I essence, reflects the states of being beyond specificities transcending the boundaries of time and space.
Contents
Publisher’s Note
Preface
Introduction
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
ARCHITECTURE:
The Stupa
Amita Ray
Rock-Cut Caves (Buddhist, Jaina and Brahmanical)
Asok K. Bhattacharya
Reflections on Schools and Styles
Of Indian Temple Architecture
Nirmal K. Bose
Indian Temple Architecture
Michael W. Meister
Nagara Temples
Nirmal K. Bose
Dravida and Calukya temles
K.R. Srinivasan
Jaina Architectural Traditions and canons
Gopilal Amar
Some Architectural Conventions of Kerala
K.R. Pisharoti
The Spirit of Tibetan Architecture
Lame Anagarika Govinda
Indo-Islamic Architecture (1192-1803)
R. Nath
SCULPTURE:
Indian Sculpture: Essence and form
O.C. Gangoly
Harappan Art
Jagat Pati Joshi
Ancient Indian Terracottas
C.C. Dasgupta
Mauryaand Sunga Sculpture
Nihar Ranjan Ray
Kusana Sculpture
R.C Sharma
Gupta Sculpture
Stella Kramrisch
Pala and Sena Sculpture
Stella Kramrisch
Medieval sculpture (Deccan and the South)
C. Sivaramamurti
Early Jaina Sculpture (300 B.C. - 300 A.D.):
East India
Debala Mitra
Early Jaina Sculpture (300 B.C. - 300 A.D.):
West India
U.P. Shah
Hindu Iconography
N.P. Joshi
Buddhist Iconography
J.N. Banerjea
Diagrams and Symbols of Jaina Iconography
U.P. Shah
Jina Image in Agamic and Hymnic Tradition
M.A. Dhaky
Jaina Iconography
Juthika Maitra
Late Jaina Wood-Carvings
V.P. Dwivedi
Temple Terracottas of Bengal
Ashok K. Bhattacharyya
EPIGRAPHY AND NUMISMATICS:
Indian Epigraphy
D.C. Sircar
Epigraphic Bearing on Early Indian Art
B.N. Mukherjee
Art in the coins of Early and Medieval India
B.N. Mukherjee
Art and Indian Epigraphy
Z.A. Desai
Calligraphic art in Perso-Arabic Epigraphs
Ashok K. Bhattacharyya
INDIAN ART AND THE EAST:
South-East Asian Art
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Indian and Central Asia
R.C. Mjumdar
India and China:
The Beyond and the Within
Lokesh Chandra
Interflow of Art between India and Japan
Lokesh Chandra
Indonesian Art: Indian Echoes
K.K. Ganguly
Pagan: The Indian Connection
K.K. Ganguly
Art of Nepal
Amita Ray
Art of Sri Lanka
H.T. Basnayake