[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Indian Sculpture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933) › c8.203 # Indian Sculpture c8.203 Indian Sculpture c8.203 - **Language:** English ### [c8.203](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.203) If sculpture in the West endeavours to remove the material, so that the figure which is seen in it by the artist, even before it is carved, may be taken out of the material in which it is beheld as imprisoned, rock-cut sculpture, and specially in the Dekkhan, knows of no hostility of the material from which form would have to be wrested. In the present example, simulated architectonic articulation—a corner with walls at an angle of 90 degrees—is taken to be, as it actually had been, part of the three-dimensioned material. The figures, with their movement and direction, are compositionally connected across two adjacent surfaces, and fill dynamically the interval between these, which had to be scooped out to show the relief. The plastic conception is nowhere as consequentially carried through as in the rock-cut monuments. It does not brook the surface, or one surface only, for its display. - [Previous: c8.202](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.202) - [Next: c8.204](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.204) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.203](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.203) · Pramāṇa