Author: C. SivaramamurtiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Lectures delivered at the Sheth Bholabhai Jeshingbhai Institute of Learning and Research, Ahmedabad in August 1978.
Approach to Nature in Indian Art and Thought
Author: C. SivaramamurtiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Lectures delivered at the Sheth Bholabhai Jeshingbhai Institute of Learning and Research, Ahmedabad in August 1978.
Approch to Nature in Indian Art and Thought
Author: Calambur SivaramamurtiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Transformation of Nature in Art
Author: Ananda Kentish CoomaraswamyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
An attempt to explain the theory behind medieval European and Asiatic art, especially art in India.
Ethno-ornithology
Author: Sonia C. TidemannPublisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849774757
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
An African proverb states that when a knowledgeable old person dies, a whole library disappears. In that light, this book presents knowledge that is new or has not been readily available until now because it has not previously been captured or reported by indigenous people. Indigenous knowledge that embraces ornithology takes in whole social dimensions that are inter-linked with environmental ethos, conservation and management for sustainability. In contrast, western approaches have tended to reduce knowledge to elemental and material references. This book also looks at the significance of ind.
An Approach to Indian Art
Author: Niharranjan RayClimate Change and the Art of Devotion
Author: Sugata RayPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029574538X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion, Sugata Ray shows how this place-centered theology emerged in the wake of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850), an epoch marked by climatic catastrophes across the globe. Using the frame of geoaesthetics, he compares early modern conceptions of the environment and current assumptions about nature and culture. A groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of eco–art history, the book examines architecture, paintings, photography, and prints created in Braj alongside theological treatises and devotional poetry to foreground seepages between the natural ecosystem and cultural production. The paintings of deified rivers, temples that emulate fragrant groves, and talismanic bleeding rocks that Ray discusses will captivate readers interested in environmental humanities and South Asian art history. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/climate-change-and-the-art-of-devotion
The Illustrated Dictionary of Hindu Iconography
Author: Margaret StutleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429624255
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Indian art, increasingly popular in the west, cannot be fully appreciated without some knowledge of the religious and philosophical background. This book, first published in 1985, covers all aspects of Hindu iconography, and explains that its roots lie far back in the style of prehistoric art. The dictionary demonstrates the rich profusion of cults, divinities, symbols, sects and philosophical views encompassed by the Hindu religious tradition.
On the Study of Indian Art
Author: Pramod ChandraPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Published for the Asia Society, by Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Serious study of the art of India began only in the nineteenth century. This small volume provides a masterly overview of the scholarship of the past century and a half. Mr. Chandra's purpose is twofold: to help present–day students understand their scholarly heritage, and to encourage them to re-examine their own methods and assumptions. His histographical approach enables him to pay tribute to the great achievements of the pioneers in the field and also to notice the manner in which errors of fact and method have crept into some of the contemporary thinking and writing on the subject. Rather than attempt to discuss the writings of every scholar of note, he restricts himself to a few whose work, in his opinion, clearly represents the various stages of the development of the discipline. In analyzing their contributions, he concentrates on the broad methodological thrust of their work and not on the details of their conclusions. The study of architecture is considered first, because it was regarded by the ancient Indians as the most important of the visual arts and was the earliest of the arts to receive careful, analytic treatment in modern times. Sculpture is taken up second, and last the study of Indian painting, the area in which the most remarkable progress has been made in the last twenty–five years. In the course of the discussion many topics of broad interest are touched upon, including the relation of art history to the other disciplines, problems presented by various methods of classification, iconography and iconology, the relevance of style, the meaning of form, and the connection between artists and patrons.
Sri Lakshmi in Indian Art and Thought
Author: C. SivaramamurtiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindu art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Study of Lakshmi, Hindu deity.
Author: Calambur Sivaramamurti