Download or read book Sri Lankan Art written by Sujatha Arundathi Meegama and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Multiple voices and mediums locate the island within its larger geographical space, giving Sri Lanka a unique voice in the global artistic community -Bringing attention to Sri Lanka's contacts with the European world -Of interest to students and enthusiasts of Asian art and interesecting culture This anthology of essays devoted to Sri Lanka's art histories, showcases current research into the island's diverse artistic traditions. Ranging from the ancient city of Anuradapura to the contemporary art scene, this volume highlights the art histories that connect local, regional and global art worlds. Expanding the canon beyond the standard Sinhala-Buddhist narrative, the writers attend to the subtle and complex processes of connectedness that embed Sri Lanka's art histories in various transnational moments. They also pay attention to producers and patrons by attending closely to the visual surfaces of various forms and mediums. At times the writers approach the artistic traditions of the island from the outside; at other times they consider them from the inside, locating the island's artistic heritages in the dialectical relationship between national traditions and connected cultures. This intervention is but a first step in rethinking the art histories of the island.

Download or read book The Jeweled Isle written by Robert Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Power of Sri Lankan Art 1943 2012 written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed profiles of Sri Lankan visual artist's and articles on Sri Lankan modern art.

Download or read book Sri Lankan Painting in the 20th Century written by Senake Bandaranayake and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rock and Wall Paintings of Sri Lanka written by Senake Bandaranayake and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Religious World of Kirti Sri written by John Clifford Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary inquiry, John Clifford Holt seeks to uncover how Buddhism was understood and expressed during the waning years of indigenous political power in Asia's oldest continuing Buddhist culture. Holt focusses on King Kirti Sri Rajasinha and how, despite powerful and persistent Dutch colonial threats and a deeply suspicious Kandyan Buddhist Sinhalese aristocracy, he successfully revived Sinhalese Theravada Buddhism. As Holt demonstrates, Kirti Sri succeeded in formulating his vision of an orthodox Buddhism in a number of ways: through the patronage of monastic sanha and re-establishing traditional lines of ordination, translating the Pali suttas into Sinhala, sponsoring public Buddhist religious rites, and refurbishing almost all Buddhist temples in the Kandyan culture region. The ultimate aim of Holt's study is to describe and interpret Kirti Sri's articulation of a normative Buddhist world, the essentials of which remain normative for many Buddhists in the Kandyan region of Sri Lanka today. Scholars and students will find The Religious World of Kirti Sri is an indispensable resource for the understanding of orthodox Buddhism at this important historical juncture, as well as the present day.

Download or read book Art of Sri Lanka written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon 1602 1796 written by R. Rajpal Kumar De Silva and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1988 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Images of Celestial Bodies in Sri Lankan Art written by Chandra Wikramagamage and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Planetary dieties in Sri Lankan temple paintings and paintings for Bali rituals in Sri Lanka.

Download or read book The Arts Crafts of India Ceylon written by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Download or read book Artful Resistance written by Museum für Völkerkunde (Austria) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Senaka written by Senaka Senanayke and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of Senaka Senanayke, b. 1951, Sri Lankan painter; includes articles on his life and paintings.

Download or read book The Art and Archaeology of Sri Lanka written by Leelananda Prematilleka and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mediaeval Sinhalese Art written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Volume Presents A Record Of The Work And Life Of The Craftsman Belonging To Sinhalese Art In The Mediaeval Period. Most Of The Specimens Included Are From The Latter Past Of The Eighteenth Century As The Medieval Conditions Survivied In Sri Lanka Until The British Occupation Of Kandy In 1815. Thus The Work Presents The Work Of Sinhalese Craftsman Under Mediaeval Conditions. Which Survived In Eighteenth Century And To A Less Degree Even In The Present Day. It Is Reprinted From The Second Edition Of 1956. Illustrated.

Download or read book Early Prints of Ceylon Sri Lanka 1800 1900 written by Rajpal Kumar De Silva and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Incomplete Thombu written by Sanathanan and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An art project on Tamil life in Sri Lanka during the Civil War.

Download or read book Guardian of the Flame written by John Andrew Listopad and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and examples of Buddhist art in Sri Lanka.