SECTION II
COMPARATIVE ART-HISTORY
And yet European and American scholars as well as their Asian paraphrasers have tried to discover and demonstrate an Oriental pessimism in the arts and crafts of the Hindus. It is generally held that the inspiration of Hindu painters and sculptors is totally different from that of the Westerns. The images and pictures executed by the artists of India are believed to have been the products of Yoga, of an ultra-meditative consciousness. They are said to reveal a much too subjective or idealistic temperament. Further, they are all alleged to be religious or mythological in theme.
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