India: Five Thousand Years of Indian Art

The author, Hermann Goetz, has spent a lifetime studying Indian art. He has lived in India for a quarter of a century, as librarian, curator, University Professor and Director of the Baroda Museum, and he has visited and studied the treasures of India of which he writes. This handsome book traces Indian art -- including architecture, painting, sculpture, and handicrafts -- from its origin in the late Stone Age to its most recent developments in our own time. Stuart Preston writes in his review of India in The New York Times, "Indian art, stretching back 4,000 years in time, is formidably complex... but Mr. Goetz threads his way through this maze with extraordinary skill. At one moment he will discuss the ways in which art was affected by climate and geography; next he will hold forth on Vedantic philosophy... this book is bound to satisfy specialists and laymen alike." Accompanying the text are over 60 hand-tipped color plates and several maps. There is also a bibliography and a glossary of artistic and technical terms.