Indian Sculpture c7.5

c7.5

Each art province speaks its own language through the ages. But this stable aspect is modified along the time-line. The latter is the thin thread which the process of art itself spins. It leads from attempt to accomplishment, and is technically conditioned. Its structure in this respect is not different from that of the process of art anywhere else. The symptoms are the same, just as the signs of growing up or ageing are the same amongst men all over the world. Criteria of style, according to the organic transformation brought about in time, and according to changes caused by extraneous factors, such as contact with foreign spheres of art, and facilitated by a given readiness, help to order and to classify the monuments. The data which these skin-deep marks afford, must not, for the sake of wider implications, be lifted and abstracted from the body to which they belong, and which makes it possible for them to be present.