A new bronze age for Nepal
Almost every time I have asked a sculptor what his father did, the answer is that he made pots and plates. Were it possible to follow the family occupation back several more generations, it would almost certainly be found that the original family occupation was image making. Now the earlier trend fr...
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Almost every time I have asked a sculptor what his father did, the answer is that he made pots and plates. Were it possible to follow the family occupation back several more generations, it would almost certainly be found that the original family occupation was image making. Now the earlier trend from statues to utensils has been reversed, and sculptors are rediscovering the skills of their ancestors, which for two centuries lay in hibernation. Little by little, the casters relearned the techniques they had lost. Working from antique examples, the sculptors began to recapture the grace and elegance of earlier Nepalese statues. |
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| Beschreibung: | This article was originally published in the Jan/Feb 1980 issue of Asia magazine, then the bimonthly publication of the Asia Society. - "Alexander Duncan" is a pseudonym of author Ian Alsop. |
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