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Art and Archaeology Abroad

1937

Besides there is a Council composed on above lines of the National School of Decorative Arts as well as a permanent Commission of Art Publications composed of the Directors and2 ART AND ARCH1EOLOGY ABROAD responsible officers of the National Museums of the Museum of Decorative Arts of Musee Guimet (devoted to Oriental Arts) the Director of the Education Department the Inspector-General of Hist [...] All these problems are attracting the careful attention of the I. 0. M. and the International Commission of Intellectual Co-operation moved the Assembly of the League of Nations (1932) to circulate amongst the member states a certain number of recommendations in view of an international collaboration for the protection of artistic patrmony and of mutual assistance in the recovery of objects re [...] And now that the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation has brought India in the very forefront of the attention of the Archaeologists should we not take the initiative in co-operating with and seeking coperation of the international group of Archaeolgists working so admirably in the domains of our next-door neighbours ? Nearer home we find the Iranian Government and the Afghan rulers a [...] G. Oikonomas"32 ART AND ARCHIEOLOGY ABROAD Director of the National Museum of Athens writes on the Entourage of Monuments" and N. Balanos Curator of the Acropolis Monuments Athens writes on the " Restoration of the Acropolis."" III ART PILGRIMAGE THROUGH GREECE Of the museums and art relics of the Medterranean World I had the privilege of visiting between 1921-23 the monuments of Barcelon [...] The Dorian island colony of Cnidus dedicated a remarkable structure the Treasury of the Cniclians in the middle of the 6th century B. C. Two Caryatides at the entrance supporting the entablature appear as living columns and serve as originals for the Caryatides of the Erectheion on the Acropolis of Athens.
education
Pages
154
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142035
Segment Pages Author Actions
Introduction
i-x Kalidas Nag view
I. Art and Archaeology in France
1-18 unknown view
II. Activities of other Nations
19-32 unknown view
III. Art Pilgrimage through Greece
33-46 unknown view
IV. Italy
47-64 unknown view
V. Art and Archaeology in U. S. A.
65-107 unknown view
VI. Latin America
108-119 unknown view
Index
120-122 unknown view
List of Plates
123-xix unknown view

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