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Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.199

Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.199

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c12.199

New India has at last found an artist, Mr. Abanindro Nath Tagore, to show us something of its real mind, and it is significant that it is revealing itself in a continuity of the old artistic thought, a new expression of former convictions. It is impossible to give here anything like an adequate illustration of his work as a whole, but the four plates LXXIII. to VI., will suffice to show that a real artist has come to pick up the broken threads of Indian pictorial tradition.