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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. English text.; Paperback.; 24 x 32.2 cm.; 0.7 kg.; 107 pages with colour and black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The exterior shows wear marks, edge wear, scuffs and scratches. The spine is worn, showing wear marks, the title is also worn. Several scratches on the back cover that shows also signs of have been bent in the past. Interior with signs of wear, namely same pages showing signs of have been bent in the past.; MARG evokes in this issue the ethos of the Vijayanagara civilisation through the cultivation of the arts by a succession of monarchs-especially by Krishnadeva Raya. In the surviving temples, palaces, wall paintings and images, we see symbolic expressions in which the mundane struggles are enshrined in sacred images.; Contents: The Rise and Fall of The Vijayanagara Empire by Mulk Raj Anand.; Old Myth and New Myth by Mulk Raj Anand.; History or Myth (Part I) by George Michell; Man in Nature - Town Planning (Part II) The Site by George Michell; From Power to Pleasure (Part III); Civic Architecture by George Michell; Gods and Men (Part IV); Sacred Architecture and Art by George Michell; Muslim Influence (Part V) by Antony Hutt.…