This volume discusses the history of Indian and Indonesian art, written by the Keeper of Indian and Muhammadan art in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. It is divided into six parts on the following: pre- Maurya; Maurya, Sunga, early Andbra and Scytho-Parthian (Ksatrapa); Kusana, later Andbra and Gupta; early medieval, medieval, Rajput painting and later arts and crafts; Kasmir, Nepal, Tibet, Chinese Turkistan and the Far East; farther India, Indonesia and Ceylon. With 400 illustrations on 128 plates and 9 maps.
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ANANDA K. COOMARASWAMY was born in 1877, of Anglo-Ceylonese parents. After completing studies in Geology he soon became interested in the arts and crafts of his native Ceylon and India. In 1917 he relocated to the USA where he became Keeper of Indian and Islamic Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, establishing a large collection of Oriental artifacts and presenting lectures on their symbolic and metaphysical meaning. An encounter with the seminal writings of perennialist author René Guénon served to confirm and strengthen his view of the Perennial Philosophy. From this period onwards Dr. Coomaraswamy began to compose his mature--and undoubtedly most profound--works, adeptly expounding the philosophia perennis by drawing on his unparalleled knowledge of the arts, crafts, mythologies, cultures, folklores, symbolisms, and religions of the Orient and the Occident. In 1947 his plans to retire to India and take on sannyasa (renunciation of the world) were cut short by his sudden and untimely death. A representative collection of his extensive writings, entitled The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, was edited by his son Rama P. Coomaraswamy and published by World Wisdom.
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History of Indian and Indonesian Art is Coomaraswamy's last and most authoritative discussion of the history, especially early history, of Indian art. The paperback edition includes complete plates and notes thereupon. In general, for one interested in either the author or the subject this Dover edition is incredibly well-priced and worthwhile. Perhaps, one of the most sophisticated attempts to locate the Indian nation in the remote past written in a scholarly mode.
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It has long been known that seals of a type unique in India have been found in the Indus valley. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
higher craftsmen, mediaeval temples, garbha grha, structural temples, dated equivalent, railing pillars, enclosing heads, pyramidal tower, brick temple, mediaeval period, standing image Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lucknow Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Western Asiatic, British Museum, India Society, Central Asian, East Javanese, Mathura Museum, Western Java, Colombo Museum, Friar Bala, Indian Museum, Sir John Marshall, Sravana Belgola, Tun Huang, Central Java, Chinese Buddhist, Great Enlightenment, Krsna Lila, Kublai Khan, Madras Presidency, New York, Southern Burma, Southern China, Spolia Zeylanica New!
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It has long been known that seals of a type unique in India have been found in the Indus valley. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
higher craftsmen, mediaeval temples, garbha grha, structural temples, dated equivalent, railing pillars, enclosing heads, pyramidal tower, brick temple, mediaeval period, standing image Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lucknow Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Western Asiatic, British Museum, India Society, Central Asian, East Javanese, Mathura Museum, Western Java, Colombo Museum, Friar Bala, Indian Museum, Sir John Marshall, Sravana Belgola, Tun Huang, Central Java, Chinese Buddhist, Great Enlightenment, Krsna Lila, Kublai Khan, Madras Presidency, New York, Southern Burma, Southern China, Spolia Zeylanica New!
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- The Ideals of the East: with Special Reference to the Art of Japan by Kakuzo Okakura in Back Matter
- Der Jainismus by Helmuth von Glasenapp in Back Matter
- Linguistic Survey of India in 11 Volumes (19 Parts) by G.A. Grierson on page 130
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- Philosophies of India by Heinrich Robert Zimmer on page 132, page 215, and Back Matter
- The Presence of Siva (Mythos) by S. Kramrisch on page 166, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals - India (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) by Joseph Campbell on page 321, page 335, and page 339
- Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype Within Images And Other Objects (Histories of Vision) (Histories of Vision) by Robert Maniura on page 270, and Back Matter
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