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Panorama of World Art
Art of India and Southeast Asia
Art of India and Southeast Asia
263 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1970
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Hugo Munsterberg
186 books1 follower1916 - 1995
Art professor, not to be confused with Hugo Münsterberg, psychologist.
Art professor, not to be confused with Hugo Münsterberg, psychologist.
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September 14, 2021
Picked this (old) book from the STRAND bookstore in downtown Manhattan in August of this year (2021)
A visit to this iconic bookstore in itself, deserves a whole page of review.
What can one say? How can one describe the beauty & joy of visiting an iconic bookstore?
I am from small-town-Bhopal India & I got the same goosebumps when I visit the only-iconic-bookstore of Bhopal Lyall-Book-Depot.
This book deserves credit & praise for this structure, brevity & publishing beauty. It's a 10X10 size coffee table kind of glossy page book, with color pictures in every single page.
Being published in 1972, I got lucky to spot it & buy it for a paltry 15 dollars (15 dollars is just subway return ticket plus a coffee & a bagel in Manhattan sometimes)
The author captured the Art of India & Southeast Asia beautifully with all the famous sculptors, paintings & monuments of those era.
That it begins with the 4th century Buddhist Stupa built by the great Ashoka (again 50 km away from my home-town in India Bhopal) was another matter of joy.
It goes on with exquisite pictures of the Ajanta paintings, modern-day Afghan Buddha, Srilanka's stupas & the art of Burma, Thailand, Vietnam & Indonesia inspired by the Indian art.
It also answered some of my queries like:
1.Q Why there is no art during the Vedic Age (though literature & language Sanskrit was defined in that era)?
2.Q Why there is no Buddha art before Afghan-Buddha?
I acquired more understanding of the art of this entire region.
Only one grouse: Wish the author had included the Rock-Paintings of Bhimbetika also somewhere (that's again 25 km away from my home-town :D)
A visit to this iconic bookstore in itself, deserves a whole page of review.
What can one say? How can one describe the beauty & joy of visiting an iconic bookstore?
I am from small-town-Bhopal India & I got the same goosebumps when I visit the only-iconic-bookstore of Bhopal Lyall-Book-Depot.
This book deserves credit & praise for this structure, brevity & publishing beauty. It's a 10X10 size coffee table kind of glossy page book, with color pictures in every single page.
Being published in 1972, I got lucky to spot it & buy it for a paltry 15 dollars (15 dollars is just subway return ticket plus a coffee & a bagel in Manhattan sometimes)
The author captured the Art of India & Southeast Asia beautifully with all the famous sculptors, paintings & monuments of those era.
That it begins with the 4th century Buddhist Stupa built by the great Ashoka (again 50 km away from my home-town in India Bhopal) was another matter of joy.
It goes on with exquisite pictures of the Ajanta paintings, modern-day Afghan Buddha, Srilanka's stupas & the art of Burma, Thailand, Vietnam & Indonesia inspired by the Indian art.
It also answered some of my queries like:
1.Q Why there is no art during the Vedic Age (though literature & language Sanskrit was defined in that era)?
2.Q Why there is no Buddha art before Afghan-Buddha?
I acquired more understanding of the art of this entire region.
Only one grouse: Wish the author had included the Rock-Paintings of Bhimbetika also somewhere (that's again 25 km away from my home-town :D)
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