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The Renaissance in India

1918

History " as it is at present conceived Is the account of a nation's diseases and much thought on disease is not the *ay to health : the story of India's real life is 26"THE ARTS IN NATIOBUILDING the stoiy of the making of the Ramayann the decbrating of Ajanta the sculpturing of Konarak the revival of Indian painting in Bengal the revival of Indian drama in the Telugu country the All-Ind [...] It is the natural result of a partially developed social system that condemns the great majority of the populations of all countries to a continuous grind of labour in order to find sustenance for the needs of the physical body of themselves and the reh; of the community. [...] The province of criticism is limited to the area of the actual ; its sustenance is taken from the spoils of art ; its beseting.sin is the corruption of the oncoming legions of the art of to-morrow with trophies won from the art of yesterday. [...] on the supposed sacrifice of richness of colouring and freedom of form which the artists have made in order to produce a specifically Indian art." This is the voice of the tempter whispeing them away to the gaining of the whole world and the losing of their own Soul by suggesting that something is missed in not following the western riot of passion in the arts. [...] The difference between much of the melodramatic art beyond India and the art of the Bengal school is like the difference between the strut of the ordinary actor who starts on a loud note and then has to strain for his points " and the restrained art of the new schools of drama (such as the Irish players of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin or the Elizabethan Stage Society) in which speech and gestur
history
Pages
303
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143308
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii James Cousins view
The Renaissance in India
1-20 unknown view
The arts in Nation-Building
21-40 unknown view
Some Indian art-Origins
41-58 unknown view
The Bengal Painters First Impressions—1916
59-86 unknown view
The Bengal Painters Second Impressions-1918
87-112 unknown view
Ruskin the Indian Race and Indian art
113-148 unknown view
Literary Ideals
149-180 unknown view
Philosophy and Poetry
181-218 unknown view
Religion and the Renaissance
219-246 unknown view
The Poetry of Sarojini Naidu
247-278 unknown view
The Orientation of Western Literature
279-296 unknown view

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