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Article: Gandharan Buddhism: Archaeology, Art, Texts.(Book review)
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- Marg, A Magazine of the Arts
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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Gandharan Buddhism: Archaeology, Art, Texts edited by Pia Brancaccio and Kurt Behrendt. UBC Press, Vancouver, 2006. 314 pages, 112 black-and-white illustrations.
The Art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Kurt Behrendt. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007. 116 pages, 65 colour and 35 black-and-white illustrations.
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No other field of Indian, or to be more politically correct South Asian, visual culture has been so extensively studied as that of Gandhara. Indeed, we should soon be celebrating the bicentennial of the topic, if I am not mistaken. The ...