Author : Niharranjan Ray
Release : 1973
Genre : Art, Indic
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Idea and Image in Indian Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Idea and Image in Indian Art write by Niharranjan Ray. This book was released on 1973. Idea and Image in Indian Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Illustrations: 98 b/w illustrations Description: Idea and Image in Indian Art presents an exercise in the understanding of a few of the fundamental imaginative and aesthetic values of Indian art. The exercise makes full use of the archaeology and iconography of Indian art, but is not concerned with either. Its principal concern is Indian art, the author underlines. What in Indian art this exercise seeks to explore, is the nature and character of the relationship between IDEA and IMAGE, both in a process of change through time under the stress of situations which socio-religious and ideological as much as aesthetic and technical. From the rich repertory of ideas or themes on which imaginative and intellectual speculation in India as articulated in literary language, have always been very subtle, abstruse and abstract, the author has chosen three, with a view to find out as to how these IDEAS were concretized in terms of IMAGES through the medium of the plastic language of sculpture, and how the forms of IMAGES in their turn, affected the lives of the respective IDEAS. In the process the author has traversed the entire field of high Indian art. The author does not claim that his exercise is anything more than an experimental one. If it opens up a new line of inquiry in the field of Indian art and aesthetics it will have justified itself, he hopes nevertheless.