The art of Eastern India, 300-800

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The art of Eastern India, 300-800

Frederick M. Asher

(Minnesota archive editions)

Oxford University Press, [2011], c1980

[Edition for South Asia]

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Bibliography: p. 127-136

Includes index

"Editon for South Asia published by Oxford University Press, Delhi by arrangement with the University of Minnesota Press" --T.p. verso

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The Art of Eastern India, 300-800 was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Though scholars have extensive knowledge of the art that flourished during Pala rule in Eastern India (ca. 800-1200), little is known about Eastern Indian art during the preceding 500 years. This half-millennium includes the period of the Gupta dynasty and the two centuries that bridge Gupta and Pala rule, when no single dynasty long maintained control of Eastern India. In this study, Frederick M. Asher challenges arthistorical assumptions about Pala art - that it is a new school virtually without links to earlier art 00 by demonstrating that sculpture during the Gupta period and the subsequent three centuries evolved along lines that connect it with Pala art. In so doing, he draws attention to important sculptures, most of them never previously studied, that tell us not only about an unexplored period in Indian art but also about broader aspects of the cultural history and geography of Eastern India. Asher's work is based on field research in Bihar, West Bengal, and Bangladesh. There he gave special attention to the sites of once-flourishing Buddhist monasteries and to Hindu images still worshipped in village India. The author's photographs of the bronze, terra cotta, and stone sculptures, and his detailed text, provide a virtual catalogue raisonne of the known works of the period. Asher's analyses of the images and his attributions of dates to them are based upon close attention to artistic style and iconography, and the study of dynastic and social history, contemporary travelers' reports, and religious history. Drawing together these diverse strands of information, he describes the evolution of art forms over a long period in which there was little apparent historic unity. John M. Rosenfield, professor of art history at Harvard University and author of The Art of the Kushans, says, of The Art of Eastern India,"The scholarship is scrupulously detailed and careful . . . [The book] is in the finest tradition of classical scholarship, and will be consulted or several generations."

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB06033568
  • ISBN
    • 9780816656967
  • 出版国コード
    ii
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Deihi
  • ページ数/冊数
    143 p., [112] p. of plates
  • 大きさ
    28 cm
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