The Art of Ajanta and Sopoćani

The Art of Ajanta and Sopoćani
Author: Om Datt Upadhya
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1994
Genre: Ajanta (India)
ISBN: 9788120809901

Pauranic Prana-aesthetics, a finer shade different from that of vitalistic aesthetics )the earlier having breathing-rhythm of Ksaya-Vrddhi --diminuation and augmentation--other than the latter`s emphasis only on the rhythm of augmentation), has been delineated in this study with examples from the world`s two of the best art-monuments: Ajanta (India), now not remaining unknown even to the most casual connoisseur, and Sopocani (Yugoslavia), the most significant and monumentally beautiful work of Byzantine art. Tracing Prana-aesthetics as the aesthetics of inner-light coded in the creeper-motif by the artists of Ajanta, this work emphasises decoding of the creeper-motif by Byzantine artists culminating into the frescoes of Sopocani done in Hellenistic-Byzantine aesthetics beatifield by Hesycast meditation to which that of Buddhists was not unknown. Comparisons of various determinant aspects, aesthetics and artistic denominators, and constraints not allowing similar consummation are properly investigated to substantiate the thesis that Prana-aesthetics transfigures at Ajanta but transubstantiates at Sopocani. The significance of the anabolic aspects of this aesthetics is highlighted especially as a way out from the reductivistic tendencies of the present day visual-arts straining them upto the stage of catabolic dissolution.

Evolution of educational thought in India

Evolution of educational thought in India
Author: Bhanwar Lal Dwivedi
Publisher: Northern Book Centre
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1994
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9788172110598

The book is a survey of the rise and downfall of India with specific reference to the effect of political and social conditions on its educational system. The course of the low percentage of educated population today can be traced in the neglect of education by fanatic Muslim rulers and wrong policy of education wilfully adopted by Britishers.

Cultural Heritage of Ancient India

Cultural Heritage of Ancient India
Author: Sachindra Kumar Maity
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1983
Genre: India
ISBN: 9780391028098

The Book Opens With A Critical Survey Of Religion, Art And Culture And Their Impact On People And Society At Large. Buddhism, Jainism And Bhakti Movements, All Are Judiciously Incorporated In The Present Monograph.

India

India
Author: Brijen Kishore Gupta
Publisher: Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1984
Genre: Reference
ISBN: