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Masterworks
of Indian and Southeast Asian sculpture have been drawn from
the collection of Dr. and Mrs. William T. Price.
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The power of the
visual imagery of India and Southeast Asia lies in its ability to capture
the human experience and to refine our understanding of constant differences.
It is the tradition
of Indic religions to acknowledge opposing characters and natures within
their deities. However, for every boundary, there is also an equivalent
transformation which maintains the spiritual balance.
The Buddhist and
Hindu art of this part of the world has transcended history and culture
to convey this rich symbolism of opposing yet transforming dichotomies
- good and evil, narrative and ionic, life and death, self and cosmos,
and sensuality and spirit, as exemplified below in this exhbitit.
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