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The Transformation of Nature in Art / Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1934Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (245 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674282919
  • 9780674283862
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.52
LOC classification:
  • N7350
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter I THE THEORY OF ART IN ASIA -- Chapter II MEISTER ECKHART’S ViEW OF ART -- Chapter III REACTIONS TO ART IN INDIA -- Chapter IV AESTHETIC OF THE ŚUKRANĪTISĀRA -- Chapter V PAROKŞA -- Chapter VI ĀBHĀSA -- Chapter VII THE ORIGIN AND USE OF IMAGES IN INDIA -- Notes -- Sanskrit Glossary -- List of Chinese Characters -- Bibliography
Summary: In contrast to contemporary western theories of aesthetics, scholastic and Oriental art agree that art imitates nature in her manner of operation, not nature visually. Things, including works of art, are what they are by reason of the determining forms or ideas embodied in them, and valid judgments are impossible without an understanding of these formative ideas. Christian and Oriental art, in other words, are languages; post-renaissance art, a spectacle. Aesthetic experience, then, consists in the combined intellectual and emotional delight of the spectator’s self-identification with the indicated content. Mr Coomaraswamy’s book sets forth this view of art and at the same time makes accessible certain Oriental, and especially Indian, source material hitherto almost unknown to students.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter I THE THEORY OF ART IN ASIA -- Chapter II MEISTER ECKHART’S ViEW OF ART -- Chapter III REACTIONS TO ART IN INDIA -- Chapter IV AESTHETIC OF THE ŚUKRANĪTISĀRA -- Chapter V PAROKŞA -- Chapter VI ĀBHĀSA -- Chapter VII THE ORIGIN AND USE OF IMAGES IN INDIA -- Notes -- Sanskrit Glossary -- List of Chinese Characters -- Bibliography

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In contrast to contemporary western theories of aesthetics, scholastic and Oriental art agree that art imitates nature in her manner of operation, not nature visually. Things, including works of art, are what they are by reason of the determining forms or ideas embodied in them, and valid judgments are impossible without an understanding of these formative ideas. Christian and Oriental art, in other words, are languages; post-renaissance art, a spectacle. Aesthetic experience, then, consists in the combined intellectual and emotional delight of the spectator’s self-identification with the indicated content. Mr Coomaraswamy’s book sets forth this view of art and at the same time makes accessible certain Oriental, and especially Indian, source material hitherto almost unknown to students.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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