Legacy of Indian Art: Continuity in Change

Language: English Pages: 287 (Throughout Color and B/W Illustrations) About The Book A great art gathers together an entire culture in the affirmative celebration of its foundational truth. It is precisely why the self can engage with Indian art for liberating itself not only from the overly restrictive conception of what we call a modern living but also the disastrous politics of the period. This is what has kept Indian art young, vibrant and relevant. The present work Legacy of Indian Art: Continuity in Change, containing twenty seven well researched papers by celebrated scholars, all experts in the discipline, is the outcome of in-depth deliberations during the international seminar on the subject organized by the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Panjab University, Chandigarh. It brings to offer as to how Indian art has succeeded in reconciling he ancient and the modern, how it has become a touchstone or the rediscovery of continuity and change in traditions, styles notions of the self, symbolis, construction of meaning and philosophical traditions. Together these elements would help to create a story of a civilization in which we can recognize the enduring quests and questions of humankind. About The Author Professor Ashvini Agrawal, Professor of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology and former Dean, Faculty of Arts, Panjab University, Chandigarh is a well known Indologist. He has distinguished himself as a meticulous researcher in various branches of the discipline. He has to his credit more than one hundred research papers and book reviews published in reputed journals in India and abroad. Besides his magnum opus, The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Guptas, he has authored/ edited several other books on various aspects of Indological studies such as In Search of Vedic-Harap