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...pride in the nation's heritage has led to a rediscovery of Indian folk art. How rich a tradition it has is shown in an exhibit of 470 masks, statues, weavings, paintings and puppets now touring the U.S. (see color page). Organized by the U.S.'s Stella Kramrisch for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the show is currently at San Francisco's De Young Memorial Museum...
...kingdom of Nepal, hemmed in as it was by the highest Himalayas, remained largely cut off from the outside world until a road to its capital of Katmandu was opened ten years ago. The first scholar to study its art thoroughly was a University of Pennsylvania professor named Stella Kramrisch, who, after 25 years in India, spent six months there in 1962. The Nepalese were truly grateful, for, until she came, they had no idea what was great art and what...
Buddha died only 30 miles from Katmandu. So nearly all of Nepal's art is religious in subject matter, representing a jumbled pantheon of gods drawn from Hindu and Buddhist myths. Some of the art Professor Kramrisch dug out of muddy ditches; some she found in temples. Next week in Manhattan's Asia House, the world gets its first comprehensive look at the sculpture, paintings and manuscripts that she picked. Though the exhibition spans 15 centuries, the works are neither curios of folkways nor dusty museum pieces. They are living idols...
...fingers, touching in prayer or greeting, the inner spiritual tension meant to guide the viewer in his devotions. For the Indian sculptor, such works of art were a combination of ritual and magic that made his craft a profoundly religious calling. Says Philadelphia's Indian Art Curator Stella Kramrisch: "The many gods of India would have no existence on earth were it not for their portraits in stone and bronze, and their temples...
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