The Transformation of Nature in Art

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy

Published by Harvard University Press 1934

The Transformation of Nature in Art

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674283862

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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.

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Chapter I THE THEORY OF ART IN ASIA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter II MEISTER ECKHART’S ViEW OF ART Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter III REACTIONS TO ART IN INDIA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter IV AESTHETIC OF THE ŚUKRANĪTISĀRA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter V PAROKŞA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter VI ĀBHĀSA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter VII THE ORIGIN AND USE OF IMAGES IN INDIA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
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Sanskrit Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
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Languages: English, Multiple languages
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1934
Edition: Reprint 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 245
Keywords: Nature (Aesthetics); Aesthetics -- History.; Art -- Philosophy -- History.; Art, Asian.; Art, Indic.

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Published: December 11, 2013
ISBN: 9780674282919