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Cosmic Passion for the Aesthetics (Hardcover)
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Cosmic Passion for the Aesthetics (Hardcover)
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In this book, the authors present current research in the study of
Cosmic Passion for the Aesthetic. It engages arts from different
tradition, showing their cultural contexts and discloses dimensions
of awareness that transgress the characteristics of art works. This
book delves into the deeper meaning of art, and shows how various
cultures attempt to suppress other cultures and their arts, and how
the suppressed reappear and reassert themselves in new contexts. It
travels through different conceptions, speculations, definitions
and portrays how the aesthetic, the expressive, that is not
identical with the characteristics of an art work, is what all art
works attempt to capture. The aesthetic encompasses the passionate
dimension which is not limited or reducible to anything -- it is
cosmic. The latter is disclosed by the aesthetic passion that is
most apparent in comparative studies of arts, above all through
examining the art of India, the text visually captures the
aesthetic, cosmic passion. In addition, it questions what is
aesthetic value, judgements on art, the authors draw on how the
depictions of the cosmic in art can assume a way of understanding
specific interpretation of space, time and movement prior to any
theological, mythical, theoretical or even scientific explanations
and portray a flow of sensuous envelopment which resonates with
cosmic passion. This book would interest not only artists, but
students of cultures and comparative civilisations, and indeed for
those who are interested in the ways that cosmic awareness has been
and is being explicated in civilisations.
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