Bellona Times
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Attention has been drawn in the Burlington Magazine to the valuable results already obtained from the discoveries of Dr. Oral Stein and M. Pelliot in Turkestan.
It is surmised that similar expeditions in the unknown and inhospitable region of Tibet might lead to discoveries of equal worth.
The writings of Dr. Ananda Kumaraswamy, of which a valuable example is contributed to this number of the magazine, have thrown a new light upon the history of painting in India, a subject already illuminated by the patient research and acumen of Mrs. Herringham.
Mr. Havell and others have contributed to the same cause.
Mr. Lawrence Binion of the British Museum has taken up the task of expounding to British audiences the history and the meaning of the fine arts in the Far East.
One need only walk down Bond Street and St.
James Street to become aware how assertive in the market have become the wearers of the Far East in ceramics and textiles, even in painting and sculpture.
What has been and is still the official attitude towards Oriental art?
What steps must the student of Oriental art, fresh from the wonderful organizations in Berlin, Paris, and elsewhere on the continent, take to pursue his researches in London?
He is aware that the British nation possesses treasures of Oriental art of surpassing interest, but where is he to find them?
Well, he must be told that he must go to the British Museum, and on the main staircase he will find the sculptures from the famous Amaravati Tope, but he must not expect to find any other examples of Indian or Oriental sculpture in that institution.
if he wishes to study chinese and japanese painting he must go to the department of prints and drawings but if he wishes to study chinese and japanese printed books he must go to a special section of the library downstairs
If he wishes to study Persian paintings and manuscripts, he must go to yet another department in the museum, that of manuscripts.
If he be working on ethnological lines, he will find much to interest him connected with aboriginal and savage races of either hemisphere, but little of real use to him relating to the more highly developed civilizations of the Far East.
In most cases, he will be advised to complete his studies by a visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Let us follow him there.
The student will probably make his way first to the Indian Museum, or, more strictly speaking, that section of the Victoria and Albert Museum which is set apart by the Board of Education for the exhibition of certain industries practiced at the present day in India.
in this part of the museum which he will probably have entirely to himself he will find an interesting but quite uninstructive exhibition of certain industrial products of india textiles joinery ceramics all arranged according to a hide-bound system of classification by subject without much reference to the intellectual racial climatic
or any other circumstances which have governed the progress and produce of these industries the products of send of rajputana of bengal of madras of nepal and even of tibet are classified together under subject quite regardless of geographical or racial distinctions this unfortunate set of affairs is brought about by our national disease of compromise
the middle course, whereby the regulations insisted upon by the Board of Education are adhered to on the one hand, and the equally insistent demands of the Indian Government are met on the other, resulting in complete negation of any satisfactory result, other than solving the amour-propre of each department of the State.
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