Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.190
Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.190
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c12.190
Artistic taste in India, like artistic taste in Europe, has degenerated from a high intellectual faculty into a common fashion; and in India the fashion is not dictated or influenced by the preferences of a specially cultured class, but by certain conventional canons founded on the pride of the ruling race and on the assumption that Indian art has always been inferior to European.