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Lectures on Art Subjects

1936

There the entire corpus, or much the largest portion of it, has been unearthed, all the literary documents sifted, the chronology elucidated, the reigning ideas discovered, the historical episodes brought to light, and thus it is possible to review the whole range of the artistic achieve- ment of the Hellenic peoples and trace not only the influences and counter-influences but the rise, the growth [...] I have attacked the irrelevancy of the first, the frivolity of the second and the inadequacy of the third school. [...] Since the chance find of the Oxus Treasure and the Sassanian silver platters, researches in Celtic art and the art of the Great Migration, excavations in Mesopotamia, Asia Minor and Crete, the discovery of the art of Central Asia and Luristan, investigations in early Chinese art and in Japanese art of the Nara period, since the Turki and Mongolian finds, weON THE STUDY OF INDIAN ART 21 have come i [...] This urge for giving form to the accumulation of our observations of the life around us is also noticeable in the case of the primitive man, whose first gratuitous activity consisted in perfecting the shape of his tools and in inscribing on the walls of caves, with a rare avoidance of rhetoric which so often mars the art of later days, his pictorial impressions of animal movements. [...] The palette of the artist, except in the black and the beautiful Indian red, which are obviously indigenous, is tux-Indian, the ingredients used the same as in the list of Persian and Mughal colours and prepared in exactly the same manner.
humanities general
Pages
276
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Prefaces
i-x Sahid Suhrawardy view
On The Study of Indian Art
1-24 unknown view
Art and Education
25-46 unknown view
Introduction to Indo-Persian Painting
47-96 unknown view
A Nation’s Art
97-114 unknown view
The Art of Jamini Roy
115-138 unknown view
On Theatrical Art
139-162 unknown view
The Modern European Stage (1932)
163-199 unknown view
Some Continental Writers
200-264 unknown view

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