Essence of Indian Art

294 Pages·1986·66.478 MB·English

by  B. N. Goswamy

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ESSENCE
OF
INDIAN ART

ESSENCE
OF
ART
INDIAN
B.N.GOSWAMY
PHOTOGRAPHS BYJEAN LOUIS NOU
ASIAN ART MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO
EssenceofIndianArthasbeenmadepossiblebygenerous
grantsfrom
NationalEndowmentfortheHumanities
TheMuseumSociety
FriendsoftheExhibition
GovernmentofIndia
AirIndia
Indo-U.S.SubcommissiononEducationandCulture
AsianArtMuseumFoundation
TheSocietyforAsianArt
RichardB.Gump
AsianCulturalCouncil
CaliforniaArtsCouncil
PublicityandAdvertisingFundoftheHotelTaxFund,
TheGap,Inc.,andKKHIAM-FM
Exhibitiondates:
GaietiesnationalesduGrandPalaisMarch13-June16,1986
AsianArtMuseumofSanFranciscoAugust9-November9,1986
PublishedbytheAsianArtMuseumofSanFrancisco,
1986.Allrightsreserved.Thisbookmaynotbereproduced
inwholeorinpart,inanyform,exceptbyreviewersfor
thepublicpress,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthe
publisherandauthor.
ISBN0-939117-00-2
LC86-71517
Frontcover:ShivatheArcher(entry128)
Backcover:TheAsceticBoyafterhisFirstExperienceof
Sex(entry199)
Frontispiece:ManifestationsofVishnu:TheAureolefrom
Devsar(entry172)
EditingbyLornaPriceandNancyHock
ProofreadingbyCatherineA.Cambron
DesignandProductionbyEdMarquandBookDesign
TypographybyTypeGallery
PrintedandboundinJapanbyNisshaPrintingCo.,Ltd.
Photographiccredits:Photographsfortheexhibitionwere
takeninIndiaandParisbyJean-LouisNouwiththe
cooperationoftheAssociationFrancaised'Action
Artistique,Paris,andPierreCambon,Curator,Musee
Guimet.Specialcontributions:Mamiya,photographic
equipment;Agfa-Gevaert,film;andGodard,electronic
flash.ThefollowingphotographsweretakenbyDirk
Bakker,courtesyoftheNationalGallery,Washington,
D.C.:pp.2,55,n8,155,167,250,256.
FESTIVAL
OF INDIA
19 8 5 19 8 6
OF
FESTIVAL INDIA
ADVISORYCOMMITTEE,U.S.A. ADVISORYCOMMITTEE,INDIA
S.DillonRipley PupulJayakar
Chairman Chairman
HonorableHarryG.Barnes,Jr. MohammedYunus
GeorgeRBickford HonorableK.S.Bajpai
Dr.DanielBoorstin NiranjanDesai
JeanFirstenberg A.B.Patwardhan
OrvilleFreeman R.K.Verma
HonorableJohnKennethGalbraith D.Mukherjee
HonorableRobertF.Goheen A.P.Venkateswaran
Dr.VartanGregorian S.S.Gill
Dr.ArmandHammer S.S.Varma
Dr.JohnR.Hubbard Prof.YashPal
DavidMiller Y.S.Das
HonorableDanielPatrickMoynihan Dr.S.S.Siddhu
GeorgeS.Pillsbury Capt.A.M.Kapur
Mrs.JohnH.Pomeroy Dr.KapilaVatsyayana
ThomasJ.Pritzker Dr.NarayanaMenon
HonorableCharlesR.Ritcheson Prof.SankhoChaudhury
Fran^oiseGilotSalk P.A.Nazareth
Dr.JonasSalk WajahatHabibullah
HonorableWilliamSaxbe DiljeetAurora
MartinE.Segal Dr.L.RSihare
RichardE.Sherwood Dr.B.N.Goswamy
GordonDeeSmith GirishKarnard
HonorableStephenJ.Solarz CharlesCorrea
SrijangLaiTandon AdityaBirla
TedM.G.Tanen SanjayDalmia
AmericanExecutiveDirector AshokChatterjee
Indo-U.S.Subcommissionon Mrs.NormanLassalle
EducationandCulture
SheilaDhar
ThomasC.Theobald DorothyNorman
Mrs.MarvinS.Traub ZubinMehta
GulabWatumull
BhaskarMenon
IreneHixonWhitney KamlaChowdhry
AshokDutt
JanakiGanju
Dr.StellaKramrisch
VijaySingh
S.K.Misra
DirectorGeneral
FestivalofIndia
LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION
Mr.GopiKrishnaKanoria,Patna
D.Natesan,Bangalore
Smt.MadhviDesai,Bombay
Mr.SureshNeotia,Calcutta
C.L.Bharany,NewDelhi
ThakurSahibofSohagpur,Shahdol
UmaidBhavanPalace,Jodhpur
IndianMuseum,Calcutta
StateMuseum,Lucknow
PatnaMuseum,Patna
NationalMuseum,NewDelhi
GovernmentMuseum,Mathura
StateArchaeologicalMuseum,Gwalior
ArchaeologicalMuseum,Khajuraho
ArchaeologicalMuseum,Konarak
StateMuseumofArchaeology,Hyderabad
StateMuseum,Lucknow
GovernmentMuseum,Udaipur
GovernmentMuseum,RamavanSatna
DepartmentofCulturalAffairs,Archaeologyand
Museums,GovernmentofPunjab
ArchaeologicalMuseum,Sarnath
L.D.Institute,Ahmedabad
GovernmentMuseumandArtGallery,Chandigarh
OrissaStateMuseum,Bhubanesvar
GovernmentMuseum,Jhansi
AllahabadMuseum,Allahabad
CentralMuseum,Indore
StateMuseum,Dhubela
StateMuseum,Bhopal
ArchaeologicalMuseum,Sanchi
ArchaeologicalMuseum,Halebid
PrinceofWalesMuseum,Bombay
BharatKalaBhavan,Varanasi
DograArtGallery,Jammu
Jagdish&KamlaMittalMuseumofIndianArt,
Hyderabad
RajasthanOrientalResearchInstitute,Udaipur
SriPratapSinghMuseum,Srinagar
BirlaAcademyofArt,Calcutta
HimachalPradeshStateMuseum,Simla
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ForewordbyRandCastile 9
Map
12
Chronology
13
Rasa:DelightofReason 17
Shringara: TheEroticSentiment 31
Hasya:TheComicSentiment 95
Karuna:ThePatheticSentiment 123
Raudra:TheFuriousSentiment 145
Vira:TheHeroicSentiment 145
Bhayanaka: TheTerribleSentiment 189
Bibhatsa:TheOdiousSentiment 189
Adbhuta:TheMarvelousSentiment 213
Shanta:TheQuiescentSentiment 248
Appendices 271
Glossary 275
Bibliography 281
FortheAsianArtMuseum 285
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