The Hindu Temple v2.c12.97

v2.c12.97

Raised on high legs, the hip surges into roundness, restrained by chains of jewellery. This solid effervescence, bubble of carved stone, is the basic shape of the smaller globular and the large, angular volumes which are tossed around the body-axis in the upper part of the image of this eery temptress, uncrowned, ambiguous, and straining the possibilities of mediaeval sculpture to a critical point.