Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.174

c12.174

‘imply all too effectively the elaborate organization of an urban mercantile class whose products lack not only the barbaric spontaneity of the older and more primitive cultures, but even the cheery *nouveau riche* vulgarity of Early Dynastic Sumer ... and display instead a dead level of bourgeois mediocrity in almost every branch of the visual arts and crafts.’