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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 influenced by William
Morris, Coomaraswamy was a unique figure whose works provide
virtually a complete education in themselves. Finding a universal
tradition in past cultures ranging from the Hellenic and Christian
to the Indian, Islamic, and Chinese, he collated his ideas and
symbols of ancient wisdom into the sometimes complex, always
rewarding pattern of essays. "The Door in the Sky" is a collection
of the author's writings on myth drawn from his "Metaphysics" and
"Traditional Art and Symbolism," both originally published in
Bollingen Series. These essays were written while Coomaraswamy was
curator in the department of Asiatic Art of the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts, where he built the first large collection of Indian art
in the United States.
This is a remarkable collection of fourteen essays about the unique
nature of Indian art and culture. Written in the early twentieth
century, The Dance of Shiva was a remarkable book for its time. It
discussed in depth the unique nature of the Indian ethos,
understood by so few in the Western world and misinterpreted by so
many. A collection of fourteen lectures, these essays on Indian art
and culture offer a lucid representation of the opinions and
attitudes held by Indian intellectuals during the British Raj.
Ranging from topics such as music during Vedic times, Indian
attitudes towards family, women and love, analyses of the symbolism
of Nataraja and the many-armed gods of India, to the Indian concept
of beauty, The Dance of Shiva is an effervescent account of the
Indian experience through the ages.
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.
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