Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c5.2
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c5.2
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PURPOSE—Indian art is a mirror of the thought, religion, philosophy, cults and culture of India. It is a rich commentary on the life of the Indian people. How they lived, how they felt, what were their ideas about the Divine, how they worshipped and what they created on the plane of matter is documented in the creations of Indian art. The material is extensive as now available in the form of architectural monuments, sculptures, images, paintings, bronzes, clay-figurines, pottery, ivory figures and other minor arts. Each part of the country has been the arena of art production. The tempo of creative activity changed from centre to centre during successive periods but the overall stream of Indian æsthetic endeavour belongs to the whole country.