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 Art of Ancient Sri Lanka written by Johanna Engelberta van Lohuizen-de Leeuw and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 Ancient Buddhist Mural Painting of India and Sri Lanka written by M. Somathilake and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ancient Art of Sri Lanka written by Johanna Engelberta van Lohuizen-de Leeuw and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 Golden Age of Sculpture in Sri Lanka written by Ulrich von Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington in 1992.
Download or read book Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History written by Zoltán Biedermann and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a ‘crossroads’, a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean.Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. They address these matters from their varied disciplinary perspectives and diverse array of sources, critically assessing concepts such as ethnicity, cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted and embraced at the same time. The individual chapters, and the volume as a whole, are a welcome addition to the history and historiography of Sri Lanka, as well as studies of the Indian Ocean region, kingship, colonialism, imperialism, and early modernity.
Download or read book Materials Techniques of Ancient Wall Paintings of Sri Lanka written by Om Prakash Agrawal and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Lanka Has A Rich And Long Tradition Of Wall Paintings, Starting From Prehistoric Times, Transversing The Historical Period Up To The Present Day. The Present Book Is An Attempt To Collect And Present All The Known Information On This Vast Subject.
Download or read book Sri Lanka written by Johanna Engelberta van Lohuizen-De Leeuw and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Ceylon written by Henry Parker and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1981 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the aborigines and of part of the early civilization in Sri Lanka.
Download or read book The Sri Lanka Reader written by John Holt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lankas recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.
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 A History of Sri Lanka written by K M de Silva and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Lanka is an ancient civilization, shaped and thrust into the modern globalizing world by its colonial experience. With its own unique problems, many of them historical legacies, it is a nation trying to maintain a democratic, pluralistic state structure while struggling to come to terms with separatist aspirations. This is a complex story, and there is perhaps no better person to present it in reasoned, scholarly terms than K.M. de Silva, Sri Lanka’s most distinguished and prolific historian. A History of Sri Lanka, first published in 1981, has established itself as the standard work on the subject. This fully revised edition, in light of the most recent research, brings the story right up to the early years of the twenty-first century. The book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of Sri Lanka’s development—from a classical Buddhist society and irrigation economy, to its emergence as a tropical colony producing some of the world’s most important cash crops, such as cinnamon, tea, rubber and coconut, and finally as an Asian democracy. It is a study of the political vicissitudes of Sri Lanka’s ancient civilization and the successive phases of Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial rule. The unfortunate consequences of becoming a centre of ethnic tension and Sri Lanka’s long-standing relationship with India are also discussed. Exhaustively researched and analytical, this book is an invaluable reference source for students of ancient, colonial and post-colonial societies, ethnic conflict and democratic transitions, as well as for all those who simply want to get a feel of the rich and varied texture of Sri Lanka’s long history.
Download or read book The Arts Crafts of India Ceylon written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
