Rock Art
44 books
The research work entitled Rock art and Megaliths, Maraiyur, Kerala is an attempt to investigate the archaeological potential of the Mraiyur region, Idukki district Kerala. Maraiyur is located in the nirth-eastern parts of Devikulam Taluk of Idukki district, bordering Tamil Nadu. This study was focused on the megalithic and rock art cultures of Maraiyur and surroundings by adopting a regional approach. Also this work intended to address the issues like a detailed ...
Rock art, as one of our precious surviving art treasures is a vital archaeological source to study and analyse the congnitive evolution of the human intellect across the World. This volume is signficant in a way that it addresses new ways for rock art research. It opens a new chapter in the history of studying the prehistoric and tribal art, with ample scope for the collaborations of archaeology with its allied and interdisciplinary subjects. The author tries to ...
Art and human life are inseparable. Indian thought currents, values and ethics have always had reverence for all that existed in nature, so much so that it evolved a concept that all that is alive, from plants to animals and human species, belong to a single family (VasudhaivaKutumbakam). They have all originated from a common source and are interdependent. The same worldview has found its reflection in Indian art, both in vernacular and classical traditions. ...
Rock art is a vital archaeological source to study and analyse the cognitive evolution of the human intellect across the world. The importance of rock art and its dating has long been a key issue of rock-art research and continues to be attended by difficulties about methodology, misinterpretation of findings and overconfidence in the reliability or precision of results. Most of the rock-art researchers’ primary focus in their investigations for rock-art ...
India is one of the three countries having the richest treasures of rock art in the world; other two are Australia and South Africa. A lot of developments have been made in Rock Art Discipline globally during the last twenty-five years, and India played a crucial role in this development, especially in the study of the Pleistocene art through the EIP Project. Hence, there was a strong need of a book which can give a comprehensive picture of Indian rock art in the ...
This book is a Festschrift in honour of Dr. Yashodhar Mathpal. It Includes 44 articles of which 4 are from abroad and 40 articles are from different states in India. The articles are based on recent researchers and will immensely contribute to rock art studies.Full book is printed on Imported Art Paper with colored plates and presented in very graceful manner. This book is very useful for the students and researchers of Art, Archaeology and Architecture.
Temple making is generally a movement of the creator’s idea from within to the exteriors through the medium of stones. He projects the mass frontally, elevated vertically in three-dimensional forms and creates a structural edifice. In contrast, the rock-cut temple presents the spectrum of life moving from outside to inside to create a world of its own. Rock-cut shrines represent the fountains of creativity wherein ideas of art germinated as sapling and were ...
Rock art is the first visual articulation and manifestation of humankind which emanates from his sense of sight. The proximity of this art and its affinity with the art of many living communities of the world today makes it all the more significant and valuable. It can thus be treated as a source of cultural communication between the past, the present and the future.
To celebrate what is undeniably one of the earliest forms of art, Indira Gandhi National Centre ...
The recognition of Indian rock art as an archaeo-historicalsource dates back to 1868, but it was only with the discovery ofBhimbetka, the spectacularly rich rock art site in Madhya Pradesh,in 1958 that it started generating wide interest.
Prehistoric Rock Art of India presents for the fi rst time awell-rounded overview of rock art in India: visual survivals fromthe many layered Indian history, including the late Stone Age andlater Chalcolithic periods. Covering ...
This volume is the outcome of the Global Rock Art Conference held under the auspices of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) , New Delhi. The volume comprises valuable contributions from several scholars from all over the world such as Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Kenya, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, USA and India. The interest of this publication lies not only in the greatest number of ...
The present volume embodies comprehensive documentation, classification and analysis of the rock art of Andhra Pradesh, which is one of the important regional rock art zones of peninsular India. The rock art data is analysed from the thematic and stylistic perspective taking note of the features such as colour schemes, superimpositions and state of preservation of the pictographs and petroglyphs. The entire corpus of rock art is classified, both at the intre-site ...
The present volume gives an overall status of rock art in the different continents of the world. It is based on special lecture series organised by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) as a part of the International Conference on Rock Art 2012. These special lectures are delivered by internationally renowned scholars in the field.
It is clearb from the vast spectrum covered by this volume that although there has been a history of research on ...
One of the largest concentrations of painted rock shelters in the country is found in the Pachmarhi Hills in the folds of the Satpura ranges. These hills are full of rock shelters, many of them large and painted. Ecologically, the location of the Pachmarhi hills is quite suitable with large shelters, dense forest, water sources and high overhangs of rocks with honeycombs. The subject matter of the Pachmarhi paintings is rich and varied. A variety of cultural ...
The present book is based on the explorations and excavations carried out by the author, his students and colleagues for over last five decades in the North Vindhyan region consisting of the present districts of south Varanasi (now Chandauli), Sonbhadra, Mirzapur, south Allahabad, Banda in U.P and Rewa, Satna, Sidhi and Shahadol in M.P. Since the discovery of 'Lekhunia (RJP)', the first painted rock shelter in 1867-68 by Carlleyle in the then Mirzapur, a very ...
There was a time in the past, when it was possible for a scholar to keep himself/herself up to date and well informed on current literature in his/her field of interest. But due to the increase in the amount of literature available these days, it has become more and more difficult to do so. But for a comprehensive bibliography, even an erudite scholar faced with such a vast amount of literature would lose his/her way, wasting much of the valuable time before ...
Rock-cut Model Shrines in Early Medieval Indian Art is the result of Dr R.K.K. Rajarajan’s research in the Tamil University of Thanjavur during 1995-1996. The present publication is rewritten, up-dated and added luminously. Several works on dynastic arts (e.g. Kusana, Gupta, Pallava, and Cola) and art historical centers (e.g. Ellora, Bhuvanesvara, Vijayanagara/ Hampi, the ASI booklets) have come to light during the past 150 years. The present book is a ...
Rock Art of the S-Belt in Central India book is based on the discovery of late Prof. Shankar Tiwari, a well know and pioneer school in rock art, research cultural, geography, archaeology and natural history. The Rock painting of this region was discovered by him. on the basis of study of these rock paintings which belongs to the Mesolithic, Chalcolithic, Early history periods. Various scenes have also been noticed from these rock shelters. In this book rare ...
In course of his continuous effort through times and spaces to comprehend the surrounding mysteries man could have been able to prove his uniqueness in his life and thought. The artistic activities of men are, no doubt, the end product of diversified interactions of his mental consciousness, aesthetic sense, nature's bountiful expressions and the panorama of the world around him. Human revelation on the worldly as well as spiritual affairs found its activated ...
The present book unusually runs into five volumes comprising nearly 175 papers dealing with the recent findings and interpretation relating to Literature; Archaeology: Prehistory and protohistory, Rock Art, Early and Historical Cultures, Marine Archaeology, Science & Conservation; Architecture & Sculpture; Epigraphy & Numismatics; History; Religion & Philosophy. This book will attract the scholars, students and laymen alike.The papers are by a ...
The present book entitled "Rock Cut Temples of Western India" is an exhaustive book that covers all the caves of Western India. The book is the need of the times as a more researched book, a more detailed book on Western Caves has not been published after James Burgess and James Fergusson. Modern view points and deeper under-standing of the caves was essential. The study required huge travel around the caves it was difficult to access some caves. Since ...