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The Basis for Artistic and Industrial Revival in India

1912

CHAPTER III THE ADAPTATION OF INDIAN ART TO MODERN LIFE—INDIAN ARCHITECTURE THE stagnation of the creative faculties which is the root-cause of the decline of Indian art and industry is as have suggested not only due to the limitation of foreign fashions and taste by the English-educated classes in India though the same tendency in modern times has operated to the detriment of indigenous art an [...] Of all branches of art that of architecture is the one which gives occasion for the exercise of the higest constructive powers and in the revival of Indian domestic architecture there is a magnificent field open for the energy of the Swadeshi reformer and the very best opportunity for giving a great stimulus to Indian. [...] On the contrary the condtion of the fine arts gives the surest indication of the"44 ARTISTIC AND INDUSTRIAL REVIVAL IN INDIA soundness or unsoundness of the whole artistic life of a people and the generally miserable state of the fine arts in India is the worst symptom of the decaence just as the beginning of a new School of Indian painting of which there are encouraging indications in Be [...] The Greek system of eduction had no room for the minute dissection of dead languages; its scheme of mental gymnastics hardly took cognisance of book-learning at all—at least not in the form in which it is used in Anglo-Indian schools —but it regarded as of vital importance the develoment of the sense of rhythm or the bringing of the mental moral and physical faculties of the individual52 A [...] In the spring mornings in Japan the working classes the poorest of the poor and not only the well-to-do will rise by hundreds to 566 ARTISTIC AND INDUSTRIAL REVIVAL IN INDIA watch the opening of the lotus flowers ; the flowering of the plum and cherry trees in the early summer are days of national rejoicing.
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206
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145468
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Frontmatter
i-vi E.B. Havell view
Chapter I. The Theory of Art
1-5 E.B. Havell view
Chapter II. Present Conditions of Art in India and Reasons for Degeneration
6-17 E.B. Havell view
Chapter III. The Adaptation of Indian Art to Modern Life—Indian Architecture
18-33 E.B. Havell view
Chapter IV. Fine Art and its Revival in India
34-58 E.B. Havell view
Chapter V. Education and National Culture
59-67 E.B. Havell view
Chapter VI. Educational Methods
68-93 E.B. Havell view
Chapter VII. Indian Schools of Art
94-122 E.B. Havell view
Chapter VIII. The Education of the Child
123-133 E.B. Havell view
Chapter IX. The Industrial Problem and the Home
134-150 E.B. Havell view
Chapter X. The Ethics of Machinery
151-163 E.B. Havell view
Chapter XI. The Decentralisation of Industry in Europe
164-172 E.B. Havell view
Chapter XII. Hand-Loom Weaving
173-189 E.B. Havell view
Chapter XIII. Industrial Reform in Europe
190-197 E.B. Havell view
Backmatter
i-iii E.B. Havell view

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