Introduction to Indian Art

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Coomaraswamy's Introduction to Indian Art is an ocean condensed into a luminous pearl. A basic work, it traverses the historic panorama of Indian art, from its Indo-Sumerian and Vedic-Mound beginnings to the various peaks reached during the Maurya, Sunga, Andhra, Kusana and Gupta periods and beyond the seas to further India and Indonesia. It is a handbook of immense value both to the beginner and scholar alike.

Contents:

Introduction
1. Indo-sumerian
2. Dravidians and Aryans
3. The Saisunaga-Nanda Period (642-320 B.C.)
4. Vedic origins
5. Pre-Mauryan sculpture
6. The great enlightenment
7. Early Buddhist art-Maurya, Sunga and early Andhra
8. Development of devotional theism
9. Kusana and later Andhra period
10. The Gupta period
11. Early mediaeval period
12. Mediaeval sculpture (A.D. 850-1200)
13. Southern India (Tenth to eighteenth century)
14. Further India and Indonesia
15. Mediaeval Buddhist painting
16. Jaina painting
17. Rajput painting
18. Understanding Indian art

Supplementary bibliography
Notes on illustrations
Index