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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calls it the finest he has ever seen. The mysterious horsemen of Luristan (mountainous western Iran) flourished a thousand and more years before the time of Christ, left no ruins of cities but only crude tombs crammed with weapons and splendid bronze harness equipage. Brundage's Indian Parvati is one of many he owns representing the Indian mountain goddess. (Some of the others, Brundage recalls, were held up as "pornographic" by U.S. customs.) Despite its elongated ears, topknot and neat mole like a third eye, Brundage's Buddha looks more classical than Oriental, shows that East and West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: TREASURE FROM THE ORIENT | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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