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Book Synopsis Selected Letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book Selected Letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selected Letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book Selected Letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coomaraswamy was perhaps the greatest philosopher-theologian of recent times to have emerged from the East. This ambitious work is the first to present a selection of Coomaraswamy's letters to mystics, theologians, art critics, painters, philosophers, writers, and religious thinkers and scholars. No other source reveals the author's erudition, as well as facets of his life and thought, as completely and delightfully as this collection.
Book Synopsis The Wisdom of Ananda Coomaraswamy by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book The Wisdom of Ananda Coomaraswamy written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was one of the most famous scholars of Indian art, culture, and religion. He served for many years as the Keeper of Indian and Islamic Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, establishing one of the most impressive collections of oriental artifacts in the world. This anthology contains thematically arranged excerpts from his many writings, letters, and speeches, making it a uniquely accessible collection of his wisdom and insight. It is richly illustrated with over 140 black-and-white historical photographs and paintings.
Book Synopsis The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Ananda Coomaraswamy by : Pratapaditya Pal
Download or read book Ananda Coomaraswamy written by Pratapaditya Pal and published by Bayeux Arts Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and authouritative biography of one a remarkable man who has left a lasting impression on art in the world
Book Synopsis Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art by : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Download or read book Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art written by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Hinduism and Buddhism by : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Download or read book Hinduism and Buddhism written by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned Sri Lankan metaphysician presents his enlightening insight into the essential kinship between Hinduism and Buddhism. In this probing work, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy examines the foundational myths and spiritual underpinnings of Hinduism and Buddhism. Discarding the Western narrative of philosophical divergence, Coomaraswamy instead explores the essential unity between these two major religions. In his perspective, one is merely an outgrowth of the other. Dividing the book into two parts, Coomaraswamy begins each section with an overview of each religion’s foundational myths. The section on Hinduism then covers concepts such as karma, maya, reincarnation, sacrifice, and caste. In the section on Buddhism, he demonstrates that Buddha never intended to start a new religion, but to deepen the spiritual understanding of the existing one.
Book Synopsis The Mirror of Gesture by : Nandikeśvara
Download or read book The Mirror of Gesture written by Nandikeśvara and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notes on Love in a Tamil Family by : Margaret Trawick
Download or read book Notes on Love in a Tamil Family written by Margaret Trawick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, as a force in human affairs, is still not given much attention or credency by social scientists. With Notes on Love in a Tamil Family, Margaret Trawick places the notion of love prominently in social scientific discourse. Her unforgettable and profusely illustrated study is a significant contribution to anthropology and to South Asian studies. Trawick lived for a time in the midst of one large South Indian family and sought to understand the multiple and mutually shared expressions of anpu--what in English we call love. Often enveloping the author herself, changing her as she inevitably changed her hosts, this family performed before the young anthropologist's eyes the meaning of anpu: through poetry and conversation, through the not always gentle raising of children, through the weaving of kinship tapestries, through erotic exchanges among women, among men, and across the great sexual boundary. She communicates with grace and insight what she learned from this Tamil family, and we discover that love is no less universal than selfishness and individualism.
Book Synopsis Viśvakarmā by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book Viśvakarmā written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Indian Craftsman by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book The Indian Craftsman written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen by : Ramya Sreenivasan
Download or read book The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen written by Ramya Sreenivasan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical romance in the sixteenth century to nationalist histories in the late nineteenth century. The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen explores how early modern regional elites, caste groups, and mystical and monastic communities shaped their distinctive versions of the past through the repeated refashioning of the legend of Padmini. Ramya Sreenivasan investigates these legends and traces their subsequent appropriation by colonial administrators and nationalist intellectuals, for varying different political ends. Using Padmini as a means of illustrating the power of gender norms in constructing heroic memory, she shows how such narratives about virtuous women changed as they circulated across particular communities in South Asia between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book will interest historians of memory, gender, community, culture, and historywriting in South Asia. Illustrating how enduring legends emerged out of particular precolonial repositories of "tradition," the book also addresses the nature of colonial transitions and precolonial historical consciousness.
Book Synopsis Touchstones of the Spirit by : Harry Oldmeadow
Download or read book Touchstones of the Spirit written by Harry Oldmeadow and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores three themes: the timeless messages of traditional Religion; the modern obscuration of this perennial Wisdom; and the spiritual encounter between East and West. Topics include the Australian Aborigines, the Bodhisattva in Buddhism, and key Perennialist figures such as Frithjof Schuon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Huston Smith. Characterizing modernism as "a spiritual disease which is spreading like a plague across the globe," Oldmeadow offers insightful criticisms of Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now and what he calls the "false prophets of modernity."
Book Synopsis The Essential Frithjof Schuon by : Frithjof Schuon
Download or read book The Essential Frithjof Schuon written by Frithjof Schuon and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the best essays by the religious philosopher on a variety of spiritual subjects.
Book Synopsis What Is Civilization? by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book What Is Civilization? written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his foreword, Seyyed Hossein Nasr writes: "Over forty years have passed since the death of Ananda Coomaraswamy; yet his writings remain as pertinent today as when he wrote them, and his voice echoes in the ears of present-day seekers of truth and lovers of traditional art as it did a generation ago. In contrast to most scholarly works which become outdated and current philosophical opuses which become stale, Coomaraswamy's works possess a timeliness that flows from their being rooted in the eternal present. It is therefore with joy that one can welcome a new collection of essays of this formidable metaphysician and scholar."
Book Synopsis History of Indian and Indonesian Art by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book History of Indian and Indonesian Art written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Figures of Speech, Or Figures of Thought by : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Download or read book Figures of Speech, Or Figures of Thought written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: