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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) October 1921

1921

In its highest manifestations it is the revelation of the Soul of the people ; it is the perpetuation of their moments of Vision of the Infinite ; it is the crystallsation of their efforts after Realisation of the Divine ; it is their reproduction of the Archetypes. [...] In this National Art of the Hindus there are unrivalled and uneqiialled examples of its ancient architecture in Indian temples ; of its stone sculpture in the caves of Elephanta and the rocky hillsides of Mahabalipuram ; of its classic paintings in the Caves of Ajanta ; of its highly developed music in the Carnatic system with melody types and a use of the material of vocal sound to an extent unth [...] Nature or models was the source of art ; creation not the idealisation of a work of. nature :was the aim.of the artist ; symbolism not accuracy of detail was the method; and the qualities of the Divine as presented in the lives of gods and goddesses not the likenesses of men or -miture was the message of this art. [...] It is necessary thus to analyse briefly the distinctive features of Indian Art in order to understand the causes that have led to the degeneration and loss of the ancient' artistic power of the people and in order to revive it and rebuild it from its still existent national foundations in the nature of the race. [...] We then realise the great oneness the experience of infinity the triumph of the living over the dead embodied in the great exclamations of joy of the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita I am everything and everything is me." When all is conquered and we become alive to.
history
Pages
240
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii unknown view
Frontmatter
i-vii unknown view
The Singer
1-3 unknown view
National Education an Essential of National Art
4-13 Margaret Cousins view
Gandhi and Tagore
14-29 C.S.R. view
Prose Poems Love Offerings
30-37 S. Bukhsh view
Will Exchange Ever Rise to Two Shillings Gold?
38-47 Prafullachandra Ghosh view
The Snake Charmer’s Daughter
48-52 Miriem Khundkar view
August Strindberg
53-75 Jaygopal Banerjee view
A Plea for an All-India College of Co-Operation and for University Chairs of Co-Operation
76-85 Panchanandas Mukherji view
Vengeance is Mine
86-i K.M. Munshi view
On Some Matter Concerning the Andhau Inscriptions
101-107 N.G. Majumdar view
“Calcutta University Reform”—A Review
108-123 Abhaykumar Guha view
“Some Proposals of Reform”
124-128 N.A.K. view
Literary Linguistic and Other Sketches
129-138 P. Bruhl view
Our Benefactors
139-141 Premchund Roychund view
Gleanings
142-148 unknown view
Review
149-158 unknown view
Ourselves
159-226 unknown view

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