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On the Cusp of an Era: Art in the Pre-Ku?a?a World (Brill's Inner Asian Library)

By Srinivasan , D.M. (ed.)

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
9789004154513, 9789047420491, 9004154515
Open Library ID
OL9085780M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15426887 bytes)
Pages
550\555
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

South Asian religious art became codified during the Kusana Period (ca. beginning of the 2nd to the mid 3rd century). Yet, to date, neither the chronology nor nature of Kusana Art, marked by great diversity, is well understood. The Kusana Empire was huge, stretching from Uzbekistan through northern India, and its multicultural artistic expressions became the fountainhead for much of South Asian Art. The premise of this book is that Kusana Art achieves greater clarity through analyses of the arts and cultures of the Pre Kusana World, those lands becoming the Empire. Fourteen papers in this book by leading experts on regional topography and connective pathways; interregional, multicultural comparisons; art historical, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic and textual studies represent the first coordinated effort having this focus.

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