The frescoes of Ajanta and Ellora, the Hindu temples and Buddhist and Mughal architecture point to a legacy of excellence in Indian art. The combination of traditional architecture and applied sculpture appealed immensely to the flowering genius of the Indian artists. Eminent Indians: Ten Great Artists brings to focus the contributions of ten distinguished artists known for bringing new dimensions to Indian art, while the preface provides an overview of the development of art in India. They include Nandlal Bose, an indefatigable artists in his search for form, Amrita Shergil, whose greatest pictures portrayed the stark and monumental anguish of Indian life, Abanindranath Tagore , known for breaking the western mould to restore to Indian art its great tradition, K.C. Aryan, who broke new ground by using metal scraps for shaping two dimensional constructions, Satish Gujral, who is a painter, muralist, sculptor and architect, Jamini Roy, who endowed his art with an unusual combination of the human and the divine, Goverdhan Lal Joshi, a pioneer of the Renaissance school in Rajasthan, M.F. Husain, the harbinger of a new mood in Indian art, Ganesh Pyne, known for images or archetypes analogous to instincts and K. Sreeninasulu, who has an absorbing interest in the Andhra landscape and whose work is symbolic of a new understanding of the nature of man.