The Door in the Sky : : Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning / / Ananda K. Coomaraswamy; ed. by Rama P. Coomaraswamy.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians and philosophers, an art historian convinced that the ultimate value of art transcends history, and a social thinker i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology : 57 ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations and Short Titles
- List of Works by A. K. Coomaraswamy Cited in These Volumes
- 1. Mind and Myth
- 2. Svayamātrnnā: Janua Coeli
- 3. Imitation, Expression, and Participation
- 4. Ātmayajña: Self-Sacrifice
- 5. A Figure of Speech or a Figure of Thought?
- 6. The Nature of Buddhist Art
- 7. An Indian Temple: The Kandarya Mahadeo
- 8. Literary Symbolism
- 9. The Symbolism of the Dome
- Index
- MYTHOS