Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c4.24
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c4.24
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Chapter XIII, Indian Terracotta, deals with clay-figurines, which is a subject of unique richness and developed parallel to stone sculpture as the democratic means of spreading art consciousness. Although described as poor man's sculpture, the art of clay-figurines attained to solemn heights, both by virtue of their beauty and as social and religious documents. The available number of clay-figurines is very large ranging in date from the Indus Valley to Pahārpur and the later brick temples of Bengal. A bigger monograph on this subject is under preparation.