Indian Architecture

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INDIAN ARCHITECTURE
(ISLAMIC PERIOD)
The late Percy Brown needs no introduction to Indian students nor to those outside India who are acquainted with the arts of this country. His publications such as Indian Painting and Indian Painting under the Moghuls are authoritative works. He was the Secretary and Curator of the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta, and was formerly the Principal of the Government School .of Art, and Keeper of the Government Art Gallery, Calcutta.
Mr. Brown had spent a life-time on the survey of the building art in India and the result of his researches are this volume and the accompanying Volume, "Indian Architecture, Buddhist and Hindu Periods." He has also contributed chapters on "Indian Architecture" in the Cambridge History of India.
Mr. Brown's masterly review of the subject extends to every development of ideas of architecture in India and the sources from which they were derived. The volumes are illustrated by numerous photographic reproductions of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

INDIAN ARCHITECTURE
(ISLAMIC PERIOD)
The late Percy Brown needs no introduction to Indian students nor to those outside India who are acquainted with the arts of this country. His publications such as Indian Painting and Indian Painting under the Moghuls are authoritative works. He was the Secretary and Curator of the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta, and was formerly the Principal of the Government School .of Art, and Keeper of the Government Art Gallery, Calcutta.
Mr. Brown had spent a life-time on the survey of the building art in India and the result of his researches are this volume and the accompanying Volume, "Indian Architecture, Buddhist and Hindu Periods." He has also contributed chapters on "Indian Architecture" in the Cambridge History of India.
Mr. Brown's masterly review of the subject extends to every development of ideas of architecture in India and the sources from which they were derived. The volumes are illustrated by numerous photographic reproductions of the most important examples of architecture in this country. What makes this work so interesting is the number of plates of drawings and diagrams prepared under the directions of the author and explanatory of the text.
As an artist, Mr. Brown was in an unique position for explaining the subject by conjectural restorations of some of the well-known architectural remains of undivided India. These drawings, prepared from reliable sources, combined with his personal research, for the first time give a visual demonstration of many of the well-known monuments of the country, now in ruins and enable the reader to imagine what they must have looked like when they were in perfect condition.
There is no study of the entire subject of Indian Architecture so thorough and so definitive as this work, which promises to be for a very long time the last word on the subject.
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"Mr. Brown has spent a life-time on the survey
of the building art in India____Mr. Brown's masterly
survey, and exposition of the subject, extends to every development of Indian Architecture."—(Hindustan Review)
"Mr. Brown has unsurpassable qualifications for the presentation of a reliable elucidation of the theory and practice of Indian Architecture in its truly bewildering varieties."—(The Hindu)
"Mr. Percy Brown who as former principal of the Art School in Calcutta and Curator of the Victoria Memorial Hall has devoted a life-time to the study of Indian Art and Architecture____"—(The Times of India)
"Percy Brown's pen succeeds in reconstructing the
glory of India's magnificent ancient architecture____Mr.
Percy Brown's text is no less excellent "—(Dr. C. L. Fabri in The Illustrated Weekly of India)
INDIAN ARCHITECTURE
Vol. I
(BUDDHIST AND HINDU)
By
PERCY BROWN, m.b.e. Formerly Secretary and
a.r.c.a., f.r.a.s.b.,
lvlml„, _____ Curator, Victoria
Memorial Hall, Calcutta. Formerly also Principal of the Government School of Art, and Keeper of
the Government Art Gallery, Calcutta.
Over 500 Illustrations
"This is a notable production Mr. Percy
Brown brings to this work not only a life-long study of Indian Architecture, but as an artist he has been able to have had made under his own direction a
series of extremely interesting drawings the
book is clearly and beautifully printed in a rather unusual type very easy to read".—Statesman.
"The present volume is replete with photographs, maps and sketches, each phase of Indian architecture being dealt with in a manner calculated to invest with wide general interest what in less sympathetic hands might have been a prosaic collection of technicalities. . . .Mr. Brown's work looks like being the last word on India's ancient architectural wonders for a very long time to come".— Pioneer.
"The appearance of this long-awaited book, the first of two volumes, is an event of importance to all lovers of Indian archaeology and art history . . . The monograph is an example of scholarly, thorough and reliable work."—The Illustrated Weekly of India.
"A long felt gap in the popular literature on Indian Architecture has now been filled by the carefully compiled and luxuriously illustrated
monograph by Mr. Percy Brown A well
compiled glossary of Indian and western architectural terms at the end of the volume adds to its usefulness."—Times of India.
"It is difficult to imagine a more appropriate author for the theme of this magnificent volume there can be no two opinions as to the masterly way in which he has combined science with art in his treatment of the subject."—The Hindu.
"No expense has been spared by the enterprising publishers to produce these volumes in attractive format, and this splendid work fully
very
sustains the justly acquired for Hindustan Review.
high reputation their books on
they have Art."-
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