A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c7.21

c7.21

Before proceeding to argue more fully the case on behalf of Indian Fine Art, I hasten to make the admission that the hostile critics were justified in large measure by the miserable quality of the material at their command. There can be no doubt that most of the everyday modern attempts at art to be seen on Indian buildings are contemptible, and that nearly all the reproductions to be found in the older and still current books on Hindu mythology are undeserving of attention as representations of works of art.