PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION
IN HINDU SCULPTURE
CAVE TEMPLE PERIOD
1990, xvii+274 pp. line drawings, b&w plates, gloss. index, ISBN: 81-208-0705-7: Rs 450 (HB)
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| The work contains a demonstration of the principles described above, in form of detailed analysis of 21 sculptures; each analysis is accomplished by a photograph of the sculpture with a short description of the subject matter, and by two line diagrams -- one presenting the Space division of Measure, and the other the Time division or Movement. Each of these divisions is described separately and then brought into a synthesis, on the basis of which the deeper content of the image can be explored. | |
| ALICE BONER (1889-1981) was a sculptor and painter who settled in Varanasi, in 1936 and became one of the outstanding scholars and interpreters of Indian Sculpture and temple architecture. For her unique contribution to the understanding of Indian art, she was awarded 'Padmabhushan' by the President of India in 1974, and an Hon.Doctorate by the University of Zurich. After this, her first book, she also published Silpa Prakas (Medieval Orissan Sanskrit text on Temple Architecture, Leiden 1966), New Light on the Sun Temple of Konarka (Varanasi 1972) and Vastusutra Upanisad (Delhi 1982). |
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