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Himachal Pradesh has a unique and fascinating heritage of arts and culture, and abounds in priceless treasures of art, to which its wood-carved temples, wall-hangings, miniature paintings, sculptures in stone and metal etc. stand a testimony. What is unique about the arts and crafts of this region is that classical and folk traditions developed side by side and from time to time interacted upon and enriched one another. The crafts of this region have been ...
Till now, no consistent attempt has been made to study the stone temples of Himachal Pradesh as a unified entity. Descriptive accounts of very few temples available in the ASI reports, district gazetteers and travelogues are stray notes, unrelated to one another, nor do they present the evolution of this regional offshoot of temple architecture in a chronological sequence from A.D. 700 to 1300. Nor has any scholar recognised the Himadri style temples as an ...
K.C. Aryan’s Home of folk, Tribal and Neglected Art houses one of the richest and most superb collections, built at great personal sacrifice by him, its Founder-Chairman. An internationally renowned modern artist of India, Aryan’s penchant for rural and tribal artistic heritage was inborn. Alive to its aesthetic and intrinsic merit at the very outset, he ranks amongst the foremost pioneers who gave away their all for this cause. Had K.C. Aryan not built up ...
Despite their beauty and variety, the crafts of Himachal Pradesh have not received the attention they deserve, nor have they been documented in a comprehensive book till now. The picturesque and colorful people of Himachal Pradesh, known as Devabhumi--abode of the gods--have given expression to their innate urge for beauty in a variety of artifacts fashioned out of clay, wood, stone metal and natural fibers. This volume is among the first books to fill this need. ...