Word: latissimus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fertility in Trees. The canons of Indian sculpture, unlike those of Greek, had little concern for scientific human anatomy. Their manuals of esthetic guidance, the śāstras, taught more how to reveal' divinity than how to relate a latissimus dorsi. The Indian sculptor built up the contours of the body from intuition and from devotion. Art in India is religion, and India's gods would have no existence on earth except for their portraiture. Now a selection of nearly 20 tons of sculpted divinity, collected by the Cleveland Museum of Art, is touring U.S. museums...
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