Item #181748 Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion. David McCutchion, ed George Mitchell.
Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion
Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion
Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion
Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion
Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion
Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion
Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion

Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Red boards with black and gray spine with gold lettering, red pictorial dust jacker and white letters, xvii, 254 pp., bw illustrations. VG/G (book shows minimal shelf wear, previous owner's nameplate on front page, all pages clear and intact, dust jacket has few tears and wear at corneres). Item #181748
ISBN: 9780691040103

"George Mitchell bases this work, the first detailed study of the brick temples of Bengal, on the vast archives of photographs and other material collected by David McCutchion during fifteen years of field work in remote areas of the Bengali countryside. Built between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries and embellished with terra-cotta sculpture, the temples studied here form one of the most distinctive groups of sacred monuments in India. The editor's introduction treats the historical background of the temples, and a preface by Satyajit Ray contains reminiscences of McCutchion. The book continues with McCutchion's discussion of the temples' architecture and Dt. Mitchell's chapters on the sculpture. Also included are an index of the tamples, maps commissioned for the book, and short contributions by Tarapada Santra and Zulekha Haque." - dust jacket description.

OCLC: 8305796

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