Early Classical Art of South Asia (Set of two Volumes)
Early Classical Art of South Asia (Set of Two Volumes)
The present volume "Early Clanical Art of South Asia' elned by MC Aushi Anil Dir, DP Sharma The period of Gupta dynasty hegimtari 319A.D. ends op to 578 AD. The an of the Gupta period has often been referred to as the classical art of Carly Soul Asia The art of the Gupta period was characterized by a passivity modeled body from a severity of expansion and dominan piul purpose
Dunog Gupta Ape there was all-round development, particularly in fine arts creatures both religious and non-religious, sculpture, painting music, dance, drama, Kalidasay literary metaphors, lyrics, and norms of beauty are found translated in art as much as the softness and suppleness I supply of limits of sculpture are found translated in painting
The three stages of Guptaarts like Kaishambi Mabura and Samach represent three variations in refinement. Kaushambi represents the transitional stage (19-375 AD) of Kusana Gupta ant, Mathura style is the early phase of Cupta Art and Sarnath style shows more developmental stage of the later part of Gupta Art The book covers the art of the Gupta Age (319-578 A.DJ Prof MC Joshi wrote the introduction and contributed six papers in this volitine This book contains 39 papers of eminent art historians and archaeologists. The important papers are of Prof GC. Pande, RC Sharma, D.P. Sharma, Madhuri Sharma, AP Jamkhekar, Prof. Kristina Deva, Prof R. Balasubramaniam, 1. P Josh, B.C. Shokla, A.K. Sharma, VS. Agarwal, UN Kai. The Editors think that Mathur art represents the curlier stage and Sarnath Art is the developed stage of Gupta Art The Editors concluded that Vakataka metal images have their origin in the late Amaravati school. Buddhist metal images of Ceylon have their origin in the late Amaravali School.
