Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 4 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture – Year by Year: 18/4
Author(s): Walter Spink (Author)
Publisher: Brill
Publication Date: 13 Nov. 2008
Edition: Illustrated
Language: English
Print length: 376 pages
ISBN-10: 900414983X
ISBN-13: 9789004149830
Book Description
Ajanta:Year by Year is planned as a biography of this remarkable site, starting with the earliest caves, dating from some two thousand years, to its startling renaissance in the brief period between approximately 462 and 480. Concentrating on the excavations of the later period, during the reign of the Vakataka emperor Harisena, it attempts to show how, after a surprising gap of some three hundred years, Ajanta’s proud and pious courtly patrons and its increasingly committed workmen created not only the greatest but the latest monument of India’s Golden Age. Nearly three hundred illustrations, in color and black and white, reveal the exuberant flowering of Ajanta and related Vakataka monuments, as well as the manner of their sudden demise.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“(..) allows a larger audience to experience Ajanta not as a monolithic manmade wonder but as a site that reveals the complexities of Buddhist artistic and devotional practice in the late fifth century CE.” Lisa N. Owen, University of Texas, JAS
From the Back Cover
“Ajanta: Year by Year” is planned as a biography of this remarkable site, starting with the earliest caves, dating from some two thousand years, to its startling renaissance in the brief period between approximately 462 and 480. Concentrating on the excavations of the later period, during the reign of the Vakataka emperor Harisena, it attempts to show how, after a surprising gap of some three hundred years, Ajantaa (TM)s proud and pious courtly patrons and its increasingly committed workmen created not only the greatest but the latest monument of Indiaa (TM)s Golden Age. Nearly three hundred illustrations, in color and black and white, reveal the exuberant flowering of Ajanta and related Vakataka monuments, as well as the manner of their sudden demise.
About the Author
Walter M. Spink, Ph.D. (1954), Harvard, is Professor Emeritus, History of Art, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has published widely on Indian Art in general, and Ajanta and related sites in particular.
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