The Door in the Sky (eBook)

Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (Autor)

Rama P. Coomaraswamy (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21933-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series (General)
• Reihe/Serie: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Reihe/Serie: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Zusatzinfo: 14 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Āditya • Aesthetics • Agni • Agnihotra • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Ahir Budhnya • Analogy • Ananda Coomaraswamy • Anthropomorphism • Apotheosis • apperception • Archetype • Arhat • ART • Axis Mundi • axle • Bai Ulgan • beatitude • Bhadra • Bhagavad Gita • Bodhisattva • Brahma(n) • Brahmapura • Breath • Buddhism • Buddhist art • Buddhist symbolism • buddhist texts • Cannibalism • catharsis • Chavannes, E. • Christ • Christian art • Christianity • comprehensor • consecration • Consummation • Dante • deity • despiration • dieu • Doctrine • Ecstasy • Enneads • Epistle • Epithet • eternity • etymology • Evil • Exegesis • Exemplarism • Explanation • Figure of Speech • Firmament • First principle • Folklore • Gautama Buddha • Gnosis • Government • grail • gratification • Greek Mythology • heart • hearth • Hermes Trismegistus • Hero • Hindu temple • Iconoclasm • Iconography • idealization • Illustration • Imagination • Immortality • Incarnation • Indian Art • Indian Philosophy • industrialism • In hoc signo vinces • Intellect • judgment of art • Knowledge • liberation • Literature • Lotus • Marsyas • Meister Eckhart • mendicant • Metaphysics • Mircea Eliade • modernism • moral responsibility • Mr. • Mythology • Nakula • nativity • Numenius • Oral literature • originality • Ornament • Participation • perennial philosophy • Phaedo • Phaedrus (dialogue) • Philosophy • Plato • Plotinus • Poetry • Principle • procession • Pythagoras • Quintilian • referent • Reincarnation • Religion • rhetoric • Rite • roof-plate • Ruler • sacred architecture • Salvation • Sanskrit • Scripture • Secularization • Solar deity • Superiority (short story) • Symptom • Taoism • Theology • theory • Theory Of Art • Theory of Forms • The Other Hand • Theotokos • The Power of Myth • Thought • Timaeus (dialogue) • transubstantiation • Understanding • Upanishads • Vajra • Vedanta • vedas • Verisimilitude • Vincent of Beauvais • work of art • Yajna • Yoni
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21933-8 / 0691219338
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21933-2 / 9780691219332