Immortal khajuraho

Description :-Red cloth boards, red and black illustrated dust jacket with gold, black and white lettering, 253 pp., bw illustrations. “Immortal Khajuraho is a most vivid and masterly account of the temples and a bold and uninhibited analysis of a complexity of ideas. It portrays the search of the human soul for an immortal bliss dissolving the contraries of devotion and lust, of restraint and abandon, of art and religion. The intricacies of human thought which slumber in the sensuous rhythms and the epic magnificence of the subtle recreated with an uncanny perception and imaginative warmth. A great voyage of discovery is narrated with amazing skill and wit till the reader stands at the threshold of these temples, gazing at the soaring shikhars negotiating with both the transient and the eternal. Kanwar Lal finds in the temples of Khajuraho the highwater mark of the tradition of Hindu temple architecture, bleding a variety of styles which had flourished singly in various parts of India. This brilliant synthesis preserved in dazzling plastic art is assessed with insight, discrimmination and lucidity. As the temples of Khajuraho are a witness to the genius of Hindu artists and craftsmen, so is Immortal Khajuraho a witness to the scholarship and artistic sensibilities of Kanwar Lal.” – dust jacket description. G-/G (nameplate from previous owner on front page, some mild water damage in front and back covers, binding cracked and front cover coming unglued, age toning on textblock,