Figures of Speech Or Figures of Thought?: The Traditional View of ArtThis 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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Contents
| 1 | |
The Mediaeval Theory of Beauty | 31 |
Ornament | 71 |
Ars sine scientia nihil | 85 |
The Meeting of Eyes | 89 |
Shaker Furniture | 93 |
Literary Symbolism | 99 |
Intention | 107 |
An Early Passage On Indian Painting | 183 |
Some References To Pictorial Relief | 189 |
Primitive Mentality | 191 |
Notes On Savage Art | 213 |
Symptom Diagnosis and Regimen | 223 |
The Life of Symbol | 227 |
List of Abbreviations and Short Titles | 231 |
| 243 | |
Common terms and phrases
actually adornment aesthetic Aristotle artist Augustine author’s beauty body Bonaventura Buddha Buddhist art called Christian colors concept Coomaraswamy corresponding criticism culture decoration delight Dionysius distinction divine doctrine Eckhart essential example expression fact first formal cause Gandhāra Greek human iconography ideas imitation implies Indian intellectual intelligible intention Jātaka kind Lévy-Bruhl light literally lotus man’s manasā material matter means mediaeval Meister Eckhart mental merely metaphysical mind modern myth Nāga Natura naturans nature object operation originally ornament painting Pāli participation Perennial Philosophy perfection Phaedrus philosophy picture Plato pleasure Plotinus point of view Prajāpati primitive principle reality realized reference religion René Guénon representation Republic ritual Sanskrit Scholastic sense Shaker soul speak spiritual supports of contemplation symbol Tathāgata Theol things Thomas thought Timaeus tion traditional trans true truth understand Upaniṣads values Vedic Witelo words
Bibliographic information
| Title | Figures of Speech Or Figures of Thought?: The Traditional View of Art Perennial philosophy series |
| Author | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy |
| Editor | William Wroth |
| Contributor | Roger Lipsey |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | World Wisdom, Inc, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1933316349, 9781933316345 |
| Length | 255 pages |
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