Proto-Historic Pottery of Indus Valley Civilisation-Sudha Satyawadi-DKPD-9788124600306
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| In the 1920s was
found one of the world’s oldest, most mysterious civilizations: the Indus
Valley. Which, in view of the relatively more recent archaeological evidence,
could possibly have evolved from a much older, indigenous culture: of about
nine millennia ago — some 6000 years before the growth of Mesopotamian
urbanism or about 2000 years before the Egyptian’s. Among a variety of
excavated material remains, pottery affords a significant clue that
influences archaeologists’ conclusions. Despite many a scholar’s avowed
fascination for the pottery of the Indian subcontinent — since John
Marshall’s days, Dr. Satyawadi’s book becomes the first-ever, exclusive study
of its art motifs: from the earliest times to 1750 bc Marshalling a whole
diversity of painted-pottery motifs: from potsherds, from excavatory reports,
and from as many as twenty archaeological museums of India, it explores the
genesis of popular themes/forms and how they developed from their most
primitive character to mature Harappan period — with sharp focus on their
creative purpose, stylistic/formal variants and their spatial-temporal
parameters. Also surveying extensively the painted pottery of Indus Valley:
of both pre- and post-Harappan cultures, the author painstakingly classifies art
motifs into their different genres: religious, ritualistic, decorative,
superstitious, and personal. And into their different forms too, like
geometrical, floral, faunal, other. In her effort to probe the beginnings of
pre-Harappan pottery motifs, the artist in Dr. Satyawadi visualizes their
continuity not only in mature Harappan cultures, but even in contemporary
folk and tribal art of India: almost in their pristine, primitive form —
keeping alive, from generation to generation, an insistent, inherently
powerful tradition, despite the ravages of time. The author also tries to
trace the linkages between the painted motifs (on pottery) of Indus Valley
and other old-world cultures, notably, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Afghan,
Iranian, and Baluchi. With one hundred thirty six photographic reproductions,
this study is supplemented by over 650 line-drawings which, (all beautifully
copied by the author herself straight from museum exhibits), try to capture
the panorama of protohistoric art motifs in their essential variety and
pristine splendour. |
| Book |
| ISBN |
9788124600306
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| PUBLISHER |
DKPD |
| Binding |
HARDCOVER |
| Edition |
2016 |
| Language |
ENGLISH |
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