Indian Sculpture c7.6
Indian Sculpture c7.6
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c7.6
The phrase ‘classically Indian’ refers more to the quality than to the chronology of art in India. It denotes a unique total, in which the ancient substratum unfolds its pertinacious vitality with the help of heterogeneous ethnical factors. None of them resisted, while each of them contributed to utterances more and more complex and subtle. The tension between the many components and their past shows the artistic vitality of the country, of its soil and of the response of the craftsman, and creates features that belong to no single component in the continuous structure of Indian art.