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Lupadakhe: Unknown Master Sculptors of Ancient India

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Item Code: NBZ443
Author: Deepak Kannal and Kanika Gupta
Publisher: Mandala Books, Delhi
Language: English
Edition: 2019
ISBN: 9789353915841
Pages: 243 (Throughout Color Illustrations)
Cover: HARDCOVER
Other Details 10.00 X 7.50 inch
Weight 840 gm
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About The Book

India has a great tradition in aesthetic theorization but surprisingly it has totally ignored the possibilities of critiquing a specific aesthetic manifestation. Indian aesthetic tradition does not reveal a single occurrence of any theoretical or critical analysis of a particular creation: literary, performative or visual. Since value judgment was never an agenda of the aesthetic contextualization in this tradition, it never attempted to identify the peaks of creativity and excellence.

It is ironical that the very maker of sculptural history in ancient India is cursed with anonymity. For various reasons, the sculptural tradition of this country is tight-lipped regarding its creative geniuses. This anonymity was further romanticised by many, identifying it as the selfless gesture of the Indian master artists. A few stray names of artists surface from some myths, texts or inscriptions but they cannot be associated with any of the known sculptural manifestations. Despite a long inventory of publications on Indian sculpture, the sculptors in ancient India are lost in collective oblivion, either because of the social hierarchy in which they were not placed in an enviable strata or because of the a-aesthetical perspective of Indian art historians who did not find it necessary to give a thought to the artistic component of this discipline.

The proposed publication gives a brief introduction of the artists’ community and art activity in ancient India and the most significant masterpieces of the past. In the core chapter, employing the methods of intrinsic studies, mainly focusing on the stylistic typologies and morphological developments, we have tried to identify a number of masters of Indian sculpture from different eras and sculptural lineages. We presume that it has not been attempted earlier in Indian art historical writing. The text also attempts to draw attention to the glyptic aesthetics of the spatial creations in India.

The volume follows the methodology of intrinsic i.e. formal and stylistic studies of Indian sculpture. Heinrich Wolfflin is one of the significant scholars who pioneered this methodology. Though, this is the most appropriate methodology for studies in Indian sculpture, in absence of adequate recorded information, it has not been exploited enough in India. The present volume, though rooted in the art historical discipline tries to address the art lovers from the other disciplines also hopefully enriching their understanding of Indian sculpture and plastic aesthetics.

About the Author

Deepak Kannal is an Art Historian, a sculptor and a teacher. He taught at the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU of Baroda, shouldering the responsibilities as the Head of the department, UGC/DSA coordinator and the Dean of the Faculty. He is a recipient of a number of awards, scholarships and distinctions in Sculpture, Theatre and Art History including the Charles Wallace fellowship for his post doctoral project at Cambridge, UK, National Lalitkala honorable mention, A.P. Council National award, The Gujarat Gaurav Puraskar, Raja Ravi Verma Samman and the Tagore National Fellowship under which, he is working on the correspondence between Indian Linguistic Theories and Indian sculpture.

Kanika Gupta is a young art historian, dancer and a film maker. She did masters in Art History from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, where she studied under Professor Deepak Kannal. She has worked on several research projects like accessioning and documentation of Ananda Coomaraswamy and Kapila Vatsyayan personal collections for Cultural Archives of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi. She has a number of publications to her credit. At present, she is pursuing her PhD from School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

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