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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1934 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of 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