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Anil de Silva (1909–1996), known as Anil (Marcia) de Silva-Vigier, was a Sri Lankan journalist, political activist, author, art critic, and art historian. She worked for Marg, a quarterly Indian journal on traditional and modern art, and was co-editor of the children's magazine Toycart; She founded the Indian People's Theatre Association, was associated with the Indian Communist party, and was considered Bombay's avant-garde. In 1958 she launched an expedition to China to study cave paintings. She published several books, of which the most prominent were: The Life of the Buddha Through Painting and Sculpture (1955), The Art of Chinese Landscape Painting: In the Caves of Tun-huang (original edition 1964, translated in English in 1967), (1964) and This Moste Highe Prince: John of Gaunt, 1340

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  • Anil de Silva (1909–1996), known as Anil (Marcia) de Silva-Vigier, was a Sri Lankan journalist, political activist, author, art critic, and art historian. She worked for Marg, a quarterly Indian journal on traditional and modern art, and was co-editor of the children's magazine Toycart; She founded the Indian People's Theatre Association, was associated with the Indian Communist party, and was considered Bombay's avant-garde. In 1958 she launched an expedition to China to study cave paintings. She published several books, of which the most prominent were: The Life of the Buddha Through Painting and Sculpture (1955), The Art of Chinese Landscape Painting: In the Caves of Tun-huang (original edition 1964, translated in English in 1967), (1964) and This Moste Highe Prince: John of Gaunt, 1340-1399. She also co-edited a series on "Man Through His Art" for UNESCO. (en)
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  • 1996-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • 1946-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • Anil (Marcia) de Silva-Vigier (en)
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  • Anil de Silva (en)
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  • 1909-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • Anil de Silva (en)
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  • Kandy, Sri Lanka (en)
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  • Cambridge, England (en)
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  • Chinese Landscape Painting in the Caves of Tunhuang , and a chapter in The Cave temples of Maichisan and an account of the 1958 expedition to Maichisan . (en)
  • The Life of the Buddha Through Painting and Sculpture (en)
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  • Anil de Silva (en)
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  • Sri Lankan (en)
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  • Series on Man Through Her Art for UNESCO (en)
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  • Journalist and author (en)
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  • Anil de Silva-Vigier (en)
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  • P. Vigier (en)
  • Robert Nichol-Cadell (en)
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  • 1946 (xsd:integer)
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  • Anil de Silva (1909–1996), known as Anil (Marcia) de Silva-Vigier, was a Sri Lankan journalist, political activist, author, art critic, and art historian. She worked for Marg, a quarterly Indian journal on traditional and modern art, and was co-editor of the children's magazine Toycart; She founded the Indian People's Theatre Association, was associated with the Indian Communist party, and was considered Bombay's avant-garde. In 1958 she launched an expedition to China to study cave paintings. She published several books, of which the most prominent were: The Life of the Buddha Through Painting and Sculpture (1955), The Art of Chinese Landscape Painting: In the Caves of Tun-huang (original edition 1964, translated in English in 1967), (1964) and This Moste Highe Prince: John of Gaunt, 1340 (en)
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