Published in association with Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New DelhiFifteenth in the series of Collected Works of Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy in the IGNCAs publication programme, this volume deals with his contribution to the study of Jaina Art. His writings on Jaina art span the entire period of his active working life as an art historian. He published his first article on the subject in 1914, and ended with a book review in 1943, four years before his death. Jaina art and its symbolic inventory held a special place in Coomaraswamys formulation of the history of Indian painting, indeed Indian civilization itself. He was the first to recognize its chrological place in the succession of style. The Jaina paintings are t only important for the student of Jaina icography and archaeology which are illustrative of costumes, manners and customs, but are of greater interest because they are the oldest Indian paintings on paper, representing an almost unkwn school of Indian art. Holding the view that in order to make these paintings fully comprehensible, a short account of Jainism and of the legends of Mahavira and Kalakacharya, which are the main subject of the paintings is given in this volume. The chapters that follow deal with the explanation of various terms; Jaina cosmology; aesthetics and relationships of Jaina painting; the illustrated Jaina manuscripts; description of the figures; followed by a large number of illustrations. Dr. Richard J. Cohen, an eminent American Indologist, has edited the book painstakingly, consulting t only the authors authentic corrections, but also all the material available in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Library of the University of Pennsylvania. It is hoped that Coomaraswamys seminal and profound contribution to the study of Indian painting will benefit t only art historians, but also artists.
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Publisher
Manohar Publishers and Distributors
ISBN-10
8173045348
ISBN-13
9788173045349
eBay Product ID (ePID)
107346020
Product Key Features
Author
Richard J. Cohen
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Fine Arts / Art History
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Place of Publication
New Delhi
Content Note
302 Illustrations
Date of Publication
01/01/2003
Country of Publication
India
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