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Assignment on calcutta as metaphor in novel voice in the city by antia desia

Answer 1

The notion of syncretism in visual style is fleshed out, with special allusion to India’s Gandhara school, and to other works with Asian and South Asian provenance. Rowland, McMahon, and Muller-Ebeling are cited, and it is concluded that the Gandhara school offers work much less exemplary of the notion of syncretism than is commonly thought. Attention has recently been drawn to the art of the Gandhara school in Northern Central Asia because of the destruction of some prominent pieces of work representative of the style by the Taliban. Although art historians have long appreciated the art of India and its environs, many Westerners fail to learn how to distinguish among various schools, and the region as a whole is often unknown or misunderstood, even by those more sophisticated in their art historical training.