Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v1.c4.17

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It is not merely a question of altered taste. To us, for whom the universe is indefinitely enlarged and deepened to a complexity beyond conception, the art which presents a self-contained and patently reasoned whole, with an imposed logic of construction, seems to reflect an inadequate apprehension of the living world. It represents a conquest, but from the very fact of being a conquest seems to shut out and ignore so much that lies beyond it and eludes it.