The Transformation of Nature in Art / / 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...
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Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Transformation of Nature in Art / Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. Reprint 2013 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©1934 1 online resource (245 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Aesthetics History. Art Philosophy History. Art, Asian. Art, Indic. Art. Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein. Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein. Aesthetics -- History. Art -- Philosophy -- History. Nature (Aesthetics). ART / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Art & Architecture eBook Package 9783110353471 ZDB-23-HAA Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674282919 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674283862 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674283862 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674283862.jpg |
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