TY - GEN AU - Dehejia, Vidya AU - Rockwell, Peter TI - Unfinished : the stone carvers at work in the Indian subcontinent SN - 9789351941149 U1 - 736.50954 PY - 2016/// CY - New Delhi PB - Roli Books KW - N1 - Contents: Acknowledgements--5 Prologue : art history and the language of stone--8 Chapter 1: Why study the unfinished?--14 Chapter 2: Unfinish to finish : a continuum--28 Chapter 3: A flexible approach to finish : a case study of rock-cut shrines--62 Chapter 4: Inscriptions on unifinished rock-cut monuments--82 Chapter 5: Inscribed names of stone carvers : an issue of account-keeping?--94 Chapter 6: Stone, tools, technique, and teams--116 Chapter 7: Carving Buddhist chaityas in deccan trap--130 Chapter 8: Creating granite monolithic temples : Kalugumalai & Mamallapuram--148 Chapter 9: Process of sculpting from living rock--174 Chapter 10: Proceess & sequence in carving images on slabs of stone--182 Chaptert 11: The rhythm of construction & carving techniques : temples at Halebidu and Thanjavur--194 Chapter 12: Carving in situ & carving in a site workshop--220 Chapter 13: Schist construction in the gandharan swat valley--234 Epilogue : 'The animal master of mamallapuram'--240 Appendix : Geologic observations and analyses of rock-cut and constructed stone temples in South India by Randall Law--250 Notes--263 Bibliography--271 Glossary--274 Index--275 ER -