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The Art of Ajanta : New Perspectives (Vols 1 to 2 Set)

Edited by Ratan Parimoo, Deepak Kannal, Shivaji Panikkar, Jayaram Poduval and Indramohan Sharma, Books and Books, 1991, xxiv, 551 p, 8 colour plates, 294 black and white plates, 43 figs, ISBN : 81-85016-32-1, $120.00 (Includes free airmail shipping)

Contents: Vol. I: Editor's note. Introduction. Keynote address: Ajanta: The Kaleidoscopic enigma of art historians/M.N. Deshpande. I. Ajanta rediscovered: 1. Ajanta and the renaissance of Indian aesthetics/P.V. Ranade. 2. The artistic discovery of Ajanta and the national artist in Bengal/Ratnabali Chattopadhyay. 3. Art of Ajanta: the aspect of mass communication/D.N. Varma. 4. Names of Ajanta: Modern and ancient--a re-appraisal/Ajay Mitra Shastri. II. Chronology, cult, patronage: 5. The Vakataka's Flowering and Fall/Walter M. Spink. 6. Authorship of Ajanta Caves 17 to 20/Chandrashekhar Gupta. 7. The chronology of Caves 16, 17, 19, 26, 1 and 2 at Ajanta and the Ghatotkacha Cave/Karl Khandalavala. 8. Stylistic framework of Vakataka Art of Ajanta--some thoughts/K.V. Soundara Rajan. 9. Coalescence of purpose: monastic and royal ideals at Ajanta/Marilyn Edwards Leese. 10. Ajanta: The centre of monastic education/Shobhana Gokhale. 11. The Cult of Dipankara Buddha at Ajanta/Suresh Vasant. III. Emerging sculpture: 12. Development paradigms in Western Indian Cave sculpture (a) Study of stylistic correlatives of Sunga Idiom. (b) Some discussion on the problem of Buddha images/Gauri Parimoo. 13. Aspects of Vakataka Art at Ajanta and elsewhere/R.N. Misra. 14. Vakataka sculpture/A.P. Jamkhedkar. 15. Notes on Buddha images/Walter M. Spink. 16. The Asmakan Cave doorframes of Ajanta and their distant Relatives in Upper Bundelkhand/Jayaram Poduval.

Vol. II: IV. Styles and Content of Painting: 17. Certain ateliers, sub-schools and allied schools of the Vakataka Period Ajanta Paintings/Rai Anand Krishna. 18. The painted figural compositions at Ajanta : Typological variations or morphological development?/Shivaji K. Panikkar. 19. Ajanta paintings: A formal analysis of composition/Nalini Bhagwat. 20. Time in Ajanta painting/Ashok K. Bhattacharya. 21. The art of Ajanta: Inner light expressed through Ksayavriddhi principle in spatial dimensions/Om Datta Upadhyaya. 22. Architecture in Ajanta Painting/Pravina Mehta. 23. Vidhurapandita-Jataka -- from Bharhut to Ajanta -- A study of narrative, semiological and stylistic aspects/Ratan Parimoo. 24. Correlatives between Ajanta Painting and Amaravati Sculptures/Parul Dave. 25. Sutradhara as a painter/Shridhar Andhare. 26. Dance forms in the art of Ajanta with reference to Amaravati and Bagh/Choodamani Nandagopal. V. Problems of Technique and Conservation: 27. Ajanta Painting: Its technique and execution/Ganesh Haloi. 28. Problems of conservation of Ajanta Wall Paintings/O.P. Agrawal. 29. Microbial activity on Ajanta Wall Paintings/O.P. Agrawal, Shashi Dhawan and K.L. Garg. VI. Connections with the West: 30. Sources for the development of rock-cut architecture and sculpture: the Nubian connection/Sheila L. Weiner. 31. Are Analogous visual elements of the Ajanta and the Byzantine Art Testimony to their correlation?/Rajaram. VII. Ajanta Influences in Deccan and South India: 32. Relationship between Ajanta sculpture and the early Brahmanical sculpture of Ellora in the light of Ancient Indian textual sources/Deepak H. Kannal. 33. Ajanta to Ellora: Back again!/Geri H. Malandra. 34. Ajanta and early Calukyas/Gary Michael Tartakov. 35. Influence of Ajanta in the Deccan and in South Indian Painting/Rama Sivaram. 36. Buddhist Parallels in Hindu Iconography: A case study of Daksinamurti/Raju Kalidos. VIII. Ajanta influences in Asia: 37. Ajanta's Shadow on Sigiriya/Siri Gunasinghe. 38. Wall paintings from Ladakh and Spiti/A.K. Singh. 39. Notes on two Gilgit Manuscript cover paintings/Deborah E. Klimburg-Salter. 40. Impact of Ajanta Mural Technique on the Paintings of Kusana-Central Asia/Jayanta Chakrabarti. Appendix.

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