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IT must at the outset be confessed that to those who know India the Exhibition of Art from India and Pakistan at the Royal Academy, London, is a little disappointing. Since architecture could not be exhibited, it could not really be comprehensive of Indian art ; but even so, and in spite of a few superb examples of the ‘carvers and the ‘armourers craft, some fine cast bronze and a few magnificent carpets, the bulk of the exhibition consists of sculpture and of painting in miniature. Textiles in general are poorly represented. Nor is all the exhibition very happily displayed. In the first gallery, the material on which small objects are shown is badly chosen in regard to colour, and the labelling is sometimes questionable ; the Mohenjodaro copper bull (No. 5) is probably a species of sheep or goat, and the so-called girdle (No. 29) is really too long (4½ ft.) for that purpose, and was probably a neck ornament like some very similar that still survive in at least one marginal area.
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HUTTON, J. Exhibition of Indian Art. Nature 161, 119–120 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161119a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161119a0