The sheer number of unfinished stone monuments in India is staggering and examples appear at some of India's most famous and well-studied sites that include rock-cut Ellora, Ajanta, and Mamallapuram. Unfinished work also appears on built temples celebrated for the intricacy of their sculpted decoration, such as those in Hoysala kingdom or in Orissa. This detailed study provides an overall coverage of India's unfinished work while addressing a range of issues related to stone-carving by examining a select number of monuments at specific sites. Instead of focusing on a site in its entirety, the study here focuses on specific issues of consequence in the context of unfinished work, as they gain an added weight and significance through discovery of their repetitive occurrence at site after site. At the heart of this book are the many varieties of unfinished stone carving that merit close observation to see what is there and what is not, and to appreciate that all the finished work has been through these various stages of being unfinished before reaching completion.

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Imprint	Roli Books Pvt Ltd
Publication Year	2015 January

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Vidya Dehejia is Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian Art at Columbia University in New York. Over the last forty years, she has combined research with teaching and exhibition-related activities around the world. Extensive field travel in South Asia, with visits to sites of importance in Southeast Asia, has given her first-hand familiarity with the art of the region. Her background in classical Sanskrit and Tamil, and knowledge of a range of modern Indian languages has proved invaluable and helped her explore the theoretical basis for the portrayal of visual narratives in the context of India’s sculpture and painting. Her most recent work has been to explore artistic agency through a study of issues relating to craftsmen, workshops, teams, stone, and tools. Management and curatorial experience at the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler galleries has provided her a broad mandate to convey the excitement of the field of South Asian art to non-specialist audiences. For over forty-five years, Peter Rockwell has combined his work as a sculptor with the study of traditional stone construction and carving techniques. He has lectured on stone working at several institutions in the United States and Europe including the National Gallery in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, Kings College London, the Istituto Centrale del Restauro in Rome, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

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Width	30 mm
Height	290 mm
Length	271 mm
Weight	2280 gr

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