The Transformation of Nature in Art / / Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Art & Architecture eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1934
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674283862; 9783110353471; 9783110353488; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674283862
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy.

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.