5000 Designs and Motifs from India

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500 Designs and Motifs from India
Over the last five thousand years, Indian artists have developed a wide range of unique and decorative artistic styles. This rich collection of copyright-free designs and motifs draws on that heritage to provide today's artists and designers with a stimulating and practical archive of usable material. In this volume are designs adapted from: Seals, dolls and toys of the Harappa culture Punch-marked coins and pottery from South India
Ajanta and Bagh murals
* Muslim monuments
* Buddhist temples
* Textiles from Gujarat,
Punjab, Himachal
Pradesh and other regions
. . . and much more.
Embodying the variety and complexity of traditional Indian design, the motifs in this collection will be of immediate use to artists and illustrators as well as providing an exciting glimpse into the rich store of Indian decorative art.
See every Dover book in print at Unabridged Dover (1996) republication of the work published by The Indian Institute of Art in... Tovább

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500 Designs and Motifs from India
Over the last five thousand years, Indian artists have developed a wide range of unique and decorative artistic styles. This rich collection of copyright-free designs and motifs draws on that heritage to provide today's artists and designers with a stimulating and practical archive of usable material. In this volume are designs adapted from: Seals, dolls and toys of the Harappa culture Punch-marked coins and pottery from South India
Ajanta and Bagh murals
* Muslim monuments
* Buddhist temples
* Textiles from Gujarat,
Punjab, Himachal
Pradesh and other regions
. . . and much more.
Embodying the variety and complexity of traditional Indian design, the motifs in this collection will be of immediate use to artists and illustrators as well as providing an exciting glimpse into the rich store of Indian decorative art.
See every Dover book in print at Unabridged Dover (1996) republication of the work published by The Indian Institute of Art in Industry, Calcutta, 1958, under the title 5000 Indian Designs and Motifs. Over 5000 black-and-white line illustrations. Introduction. Notes. 208pp. ll?s x 8%. Paperbound.
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