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Well, ancient sculpture also tended to be "political advertisements paid for by the governments of the day" or similar, perhaps especially in India, where monarchs often found it prudent to finance religious art for religions they did not follow themselves, or get/subsidize their ministers to do so.
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which only deals with history and styles. The styles section is divided geographically on Buddhist Art though it may be better here to divide by region and by religion because I'm certain Islam must have had a profound influence on Indian sculpture. Another possible addition can be "Famous
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I rather think that most of the very recent statues are largely paid for by devotees in fact, perhaps with some government/council money thrown in, maybe from the tourism development budget. The taste for big, big sculpture is evidently strong in Asia these days (the top 15 in the global
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I view the recent statues to be political advertisements paid for by the governments of the day. That in of itself is not an argument against their artistic quality, but neither is their coverage in the compliant Indian media an argument for. Either way, I defer to
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Regarding regional variations, we have to surely include the Chola (etc.) sculptures, Mathura and Gandhara schools. Can't think of any famous single sculptures, but of course, we have some popular sculpture themes, like
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I've seen the Mathura school dated 200BC - 200AD -- much earlier than this article is currently dating it. Unless the original poster disagrees -- I think the page should be corrected.
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are all Asian, from the last 30 years), as it used to be in the Americas, & I think the SA link will be appreciated by many readers. The list in fact
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Having a section on Foreign influences may be added if it is important but not enough of it can be written in the history. The FA most closely related is
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Three items have been recently added and then good faith reverted. They all seem to easily fit the page. The first is a 'See also' listing,
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