The art of ancient India (Record no. 302371)
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| fixed length control field | 160408b1985 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0834801833 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | IIT Kanpur |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 709.54 |
| Item number | H926a |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Huntington, Susan L. |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The art of ancient India |
| Remainder of title | buddhist, hindu, jain |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Susan L. Huntington |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Name of publisher | Weatherhill |
| Year of publication | 1985 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxix, 786p |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | To scholars in the field, the need for an up-to-date overview of the art of South Asia has been apparent for decades. Although many regional and dynastic genres of Indic art are fairly well understood, the broad, overall representation of India's centuries of splendor has been lacking. The Art of Ancient India is the result of the authors' aim to provide such a synthesis. Noted expert Sherman E. Lee has commented: "Not since Coomaraswamy's History of Indian and Indonesian Art (1927) has there been a survey of such completeness." Indeed, this work restudies and reevaluates every frontier of ancient Indic art from its prehistoric roots up to the period of Muslim rule, from the Himalayan north to the tropical south, and from the earliest extant writings through the most modern scholarship on the subject.<br/><br/>This dynamic survey—generously complemented with 775 illustrations, including 48 in full color and numerous architectural ground plans, and detailed maps and fine drawings, and further enhanced by its guide to Sanskrit, copious notes, extensive bibliography, and glossary of South Asian art terms—is the most comprehensive and most fully illustrated study of South Asian art available. The works and monuments included in this volume have been selected not only for their artistic merit but also in order to both provide general coverage and include transitional works that furnish the key to an all-encompassing view of the art.<br/><br/>An outstanding portrayal of ancient India's highest intellectual and technical achievements, this volume is written for many audiences: scholars, for whom it provides an up-to-date background against which to examine their own areas of study; teachers and students of college level, for whom it supplies a complete summary of and a resource for their own deeper investigations into Indic art; and curious readers, for whom it gives a broad-based introduction to this fascinating area of world art. An immensely important contribution to the scholarship on South Asian art, this fresh and enlightening survey is surely destined to become the standard reference in the field. |
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| Topical Term | Art, India |
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| Topical Term | Architecture -- India |
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| Koha item type | Reference |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Reference | Reference | PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur | PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur | 12/08/2007 | 709.54 H926a | A92773 | Reference |