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Title: History of art
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Faure, Elie, 1873-1937 Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Delhi (xii Century). Jain Colonnade. (Mosque of Koutah.) 30 MEDIEVAL ART forms and the single wave of the muscles as a move-ment surges through the whole body. But this hymnto the more tender forms of beauty is lost in the clamorof the universe. At one and the same time he can
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The Dance of Shiva (xii Century). Bronze, detail. (Museum of Madras.) adore Indra, the supreme being; Brahma, the creator;Shiva, the destroyer; Krishna, the redeemer; Surya,the light of day; Lakshmi, who is love; Sarvasti,who is science; and the horrible Kali seated in putre-faction and the clotted blood of his victims. He canadore the ten incarnations of Vishnu and the crowd ofheroes and monsters of his immense mythology and ofthe national epics, Ravana, Sougriva, Hanoumat, andAnanta. He can invoke Rama, the incorruptible herowho would have led the Greeks to the threshold of INDIA 31 divinity. Rama is only oneidol more in the prodigiouspantheon, an idol lostamong the gods of fecun-dity and death. On hiswalls he can bring togetherferocity and indulgence,asceticism and lubricity,fornications and apostle-ships; he can mingle ob-scenity and heroism.Heroism and obscenity ap-pear no more importantin the life of the universethan the fighting or matingof a pair of insects in thewoods. Everyt

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