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Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought?
The Traditional View of Art, Revised Edition with Previously Author's Unpublished Notes
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eBook - ePub
Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought?
The Traditional View of Art, Revised Edition with Previously Author's Unpublished Notes
About this book
This new edition of Coomaraswamy's classic book, considered his most important work on the philosophy of art, includes all of the revisions Coomaraswamy had wanted to add to the original edition.
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Table of contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- CHAPTER I “A Figure of Speech, or a Figure of Thought?”1
- CHAPTER II The Mediaeval Theory of Beauty
- CHAPTER III Ornament
- Chapter IV Ars sine scientia nihil
- CHAPTER V The Meeting of Eyes1
- CHAPTER VI Shaker Furniture
- CHAPTER VII Literary Symbolism
- CHAPTER VIII Intention
- CHAPTER IX Imitation, Expression, and Participation
- CHAPTER X The Intellectual Operation in Indian Art
- CHAPTER XI The Nature of Buddhist Art
- CHAPTER XII Saṃvega: Aesthetic Shock
- CHAPTER XIII An Early Passage On Indian Painting
- CHAPTER XIV Some References To Pictorial Relief
- CHAPTER XV Primitive Mentality
- CHAPTER XVI Notes On “Savage” Art
- CHAPTER XVII Symptom, Diagnosis, and Regimen
- CHAPTER XVIII The Life of Symbols
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES
- LIST OF WORKS BY ANANDA K. COOMARASWAMY CITED IN THIS VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- GLOSSARY