Bronzes from Bangladesh: A Study of Buddhist Images from District Chittagong
Mitra, Debala
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Book ID : 6494
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
1982
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
xv, 128p., 95 B/W Illus., Plts., Gloss., Index, 29 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
Dr. (Mrs.) Debala Mitra opens in her book 'Bronzes from Bangladesh: a study Buddhist images from District Chittagong', will add a new vista in the history of metal sculptures of the Indo-Bangladesh subcontinent. For the first time she brings Chittagong to limelight as an important centre of Buddhist art. The cumulative evidence of a distinctive local school is with an identity of its own in the sphere of metal sculpture has been explored by the author. But as the time passed the artistic tradition of this subcontinent was cut off from the mainstream.
