The Dance Of Siva

Author: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018837376
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Dance of Shiva

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ISBN: 9788183155342
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Dance of ?iva

Author: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486248178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Essays examine the art, dance, music, philosophy, religion, and other aspects of the civilization of India

The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Author: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN: 9780941532464
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy was engaged in the world not only as a scholarly expositor of traditional culture and philosophy, but also as a radical critic of contemporary life.

Philosophies of India

Author: Heinrich Zimmer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069120280X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 721

Book Description
A Princeton Classics edition of an essential work of twentieth-century scholarship on India Since its first publication, Philosophies of India has been considered a monumental exploration of the foundations of Indian philosophy. Based on the copious notes of Indologist, linguist, and art historian Heinrich Zimmer, and edited by Joseph Campbell, this book is organized into three sections. “The Highest Good” looks at Eastern and Western thought and their convergence; “The Philosophies of Time” discusses the philosophies of success, pleasure, and duty; and “The Philosophies of Eternity” presents the fundamental concepts of Buddhism, Brahmanism, Jainism, Sankhya and yoga, and Tantra. This work examines such areas as the Buddhist Tantras, Buddhist Genesis, the Tantric presentation of divinity, the preparation of disciples and the meaning of initiation, and the symbolism of the mandala-palace Tantric ritual and twilight language. It also delves into the Tantric teachings of the inner Zodiac and the fivefold ritual symbolism of passion. Appendices, a bibliography, and general and Sanskrit indexes are included.

The Door in the Sky

Author: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691017471
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. Finding a universal tradition in past cultures ranging from the Hellenic and Christian to the Indian, Islamic and Chinese, Coomaraswamy collated his ideas and symbols of ancient wisdom into essays. THE DOOR IN THE SKY is a collection of his writings on myth drawn from his METAPHYSICS and TRADITIONAL ART AND SYMBOLISM.

Introduction to Indian Art

Author: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art

Author: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787208486
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
The late Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, curator of Indian art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, uniquely combined art historian, philosopher, orientalist, linguist, and expositor in his person. His knowledge of the arts and handcrafts of the Orient was unexcelled and his numerous monographs on Oriental art either established or revolutionized entire fields. He was also a great Orientalist, with an almost unmatched understanding of traditional culture. He covered the philosophic and religious experience of the entire premodern world, east and west, and for him primitive, medieval European, and classical Indian experiences of truth and art were only different dialects in a common language. Finally, Coomaraswamy was a provocative writer, whose erudition was expressed in a delightful, aphoristic style. The nine essays in this book are among his most stimulating. They discuss such matters as the true function of aesthetics in art, the importance of symbolism, and the importance of intellectual and philosophical background to the artist; they analyze the role of traditional culture in enriching art; they demonstrate that abstract art and primitive art, despite superficial resemblances, are completely divergent; and they deal with the common philosophy which pervades all great art, the nature of medieval art, folklore and modern art, the beauty inherent in mathematics, and the union of traditional symbolism and individual portraiture in premodern cultures.

Rodin and the Dance of Shiva

Author: Katia Légeret-Manochhaya
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789385285158
Category : Bharata natyam
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In 1913, photos of The Nataraja bronze from the Chennai Museum inspired Auguste Rodin's text The Dance of Shiva. Written at the end of his life, this vision of Shiva, Lord of actor/dancers, revealed the underlying links between Rodin's dance sculptures (1910), the Cambodian dancer drawings, and his private collection of antique Venus and Buddha sculptures and wood carvings from India. In this book, historians, artists and poets both French and Indian, bring us a new international vision of Rodin's work.

Culture as Power

Author: Madhu Bhalla
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100032947X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
This book presents new studies on intellectual and cultural interactions in the context of Buddhist heritage and Indo-Japanese dialogue in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on art, religion, and cultural politics. By revisiting Buddhist connections between India and Japan, it examines the pathways of communication on common aesthetic and religious heritage that emerged in the backdrop of colonial experiences and the rise of Asian nationalisms. The volume discusses themes such as Asian arts and crafts under colonialism, formation of East Asian art collections, development of Buddhist art history in Japan, Japanese encounters with Ajanta, India in the history of the Shinto tradition, Japan in India’s xenology, and Buddhism and world peace, and suggests paradigms of reconnecting cultural heritage within a global platform. With essays from experts across the world, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of history, art history, ancient Indian history, colonial history, heritage and cultural studies, South Asian and East Asian history, visual and media studies, Asian studies, international relations and foreign policy, and the history of globalization.