Description
Book SynopsisFocuses on the history of the art and culture of Nepal. This title revises our perception of the marvellous wooden sculpture of the Kathmandu Valley. It uses an important scientific tool, radiocarbon dating, to help realign - and correct - our overly conservative accepted perceptions of the antiquity of Nepalese wood sculpture.
Trade Review"The antiquity of this startling corpus pushes a distinctive tradition of wooden architecture in the valley back by over five centuries and upstages even the most daring suspicions of the other astute scholars. . . . A monograph which is sure to illuminate pathways that it has also opened the doors to."
-- Nachiket Chanchani * The Journal of Asian Studies *
"This book is highly recommended for academic and research libraries supporting research and study in art and architectural history, South Asian and Himalayan cultural studies, Buddhist and Hindu iconography, or Indology."
* ARLIS/NA Reviews *
