A museum in Bangalore has launched a free online encyclopedia covering 10,000 years of Indian art history:
“Prior to this, people got their information on Indian art either from Western institutions or from the market or from very specialized academics who write books that most people cannot understand,” said Gaskell, who serves as director of the institution’s education arm, MAP Academy.He and roughly 19 other full-time MAP Academy writers and editors drafted each of the encyclopedia’s 2,000-some entries over the last three years, after which point their work was reviewed by a panel of scholars.
“I didn’t even realize that India didn’t have an encyclopedia for art. And it was quite shocking that, being one of the oldest cultures in the world, nobody had thought of doing it,”
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