Download or read book The Art of Ajanta and Sopo ani written by Om Datt Upadhya and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauranic Prana-aesthetics, a finer shade different from that of vitalistic aesthetics )the earlier having breathing-rhythm of Ksaya-Vrddhi --diminuation and augmentation--other than the latter`s emphasis only on the rhythm of augmentation), has been delineated in this study with examples from the world`s two of the best art-monuments: Ajanta (India), now not remaining unknown even to the most casual connoisseur, and Sopocani (Yugoslavia), the most significant and monumentally beautiful work of Byzantine art. Tracing Prana-aesthetics as the aesthetics of inner-light coded in the creeper-motif by the artists of Ajanta, this work emphasises decoding of the creeper-motif by Byzantine artists culminating into the frescoes of Sopocani done in Hellenistic-Byzantine aesthetics beatifield by Hesycast meditation to which that of Buddhists was not unknown. Comparisons of various determinant aspects, aesthetics and artistic denominators, and constraints not allowing similar consummation are properly investigated to substantiate the thesis that Prana-aesthetics transfigures at Ajanta but transubstantiates at Sopocani. The significance of the anabolic aspects of this aesthetics is highlighted especially as a way out from the reductivistic tendencies of the present day visual-arts straining them upto the stage of catabolic dissolution.

Download or read book Ajanta History and Development Volume 7 Bagh Dandin Cells and Cell Doorways written by Walter Spink and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Spink’s intense concern with the development of the Ajanta caves and their architectural, sculptural and painted features finds its most insistent reflection in his present richly illustrated study. In part 1, Spink explains the many connections between the Bagh caves and its “sister site”, Ajanta. He particularly emphasizes the leading role that Bagh plays in establishing the “short chronology” and in the crucial matter of Buddhist shrine development from the aniconic to iconic forms of worship. In part 2, along with his colleague Professor Naomichi Yaguchi, who also provided the photographs and the newly informative plans, the authors show how, over the course of a mere decade, better and better ways were discovered to fit the doors in the cells where the monks lived. Such an analysis reveals the vigor of the conceptual and technical changes that characterize Ajanta’s evolution from its start in the early 460s to its traumatic collapse in about 470. Moving from Ajanta’s beginning to its ending, the evolution of door fittings parallels the precise and dramatic development of Indian history in the remarkable course of the emperor Harisena’s reign.

Download or read book The Pilgrimage of Buddhism and a Buddhist Pilgrimage written by James Bissett Pratt and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1928 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On Pilgrimage written by Jennifer Westwood and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On Pilgrimage" walks readers through the 12 stages that are common to sacred journeys, describing both the spiritual and physical process. It features over 60 pilgrimage destinations worldwide and emphasizes both the personal quest and the multicultural and multifaith dimension of sacred travel. Full-color illustrations.

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Download or read book The Triumph of Modernism written by Partha Mitter and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Triumph of Modernism probes the intricate interplay of Western modernism and Indian nationalism in the evolution of colonial-era Indian art.

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Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher.

Download or read book Beyond Enlightenment written by Richard Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 A BENIGN INTRODUCTION -- chapter 2 A PLACE OF EXCEPTIONAL UNIVERSAL VALUE -- chapter 3 A TALE OF TWO HISTORIES -- chapter 4 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ENLIGHTENMENT -- chapter 5 WHAT DO GODS HAVE TO DO WITH ENLIGHTENMENT? -- chapter 6 A BAROQUE CONCLUSION.

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Download or read book My Pilgrimage To Ajanta Bagh written by Mukul Chandra Dey and published by Gyan Books. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises the fascinating story of an Indian artist s experiences in the Ajanta and Bagh caves which house the most wonderful fresco paintings of ancient India, some of them dating back to pre-Christian era. The wall paintings of Ajanta have been the subject of elaborate and sumptuous works like those of Griffith and Yazdani. These voluminous publications are for scholars and specialists but far beyond the reach of general readers. The present volume serves, to a great extent, the purpose of the latter group. The author, Sri Mukul Chandra Dey, one of those artists who sought to revive the art of Indian spirit, went to Ajanta and Bagh in the spirit of a pilgrim. The present work embodies his experiences during these pilgrimages and his appreciation of those master-pieces of Indian art, unsurpassed till today. The illustrations in this book are party from the copies the author prepared during his stay near the caves and partly from photographs taken earlier by others. The author have selected the illustrations with great aesthenic sense. In a chapter on the life of Gaytama Buddha, the author has provided his readers with the interpretation of a number of Buddhist paintings in Ajanta. The vivid descriptions of the site and of the carving of caves in a wonderful lucid language literally overwhelms the reader and make him feel as if he is in the surroundings. The work is a good piece of literature, a fascinating travelogue and a well-written work on Indian art by an artist.