Kalasamalocana Series

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  सेलेक्टेड एसेज़ ऑफ जी शंकर पिल्लई

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  ISBN : 81-244-1081-2

  Edited By :N. RADHAKRISHNAN

  
  (1997, xi+176pp., index)
  Rs.250.00

  The collection of essays in this volume, grouped in three sections under the headings: General Perspectives, Traditions of Theatre, and Modern Idiom in Theatre, reveal the author’s complete mastery on the various aspects of Indian culture, particularly the theatre arts…Read More

  The essays reverberate with an intensity of feeling for the ritual or folk theatre of Kerala: more through Sankara Pillai’s eye and pen the vision of Earth as Mother and Mother as Earth in her diverse forms is revealed. Equally powerful are the essays devoted to contemporary literature and theatre. The author incisively analyses the theatre scene in India in its aspects of both national phenomena as also international with European movements.
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  स्टाइलिस्टिक ऑफ बुद्धिस्ट आर्ट इन इंडिया

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  ISBN : 81-7305-243-3

  Edited By :Mireele Benisti

  
  (2003, xiv+346pp., 2 vols. (text & plates), 288 illus.)
  Rs.4,000.00

  This book contains many landmarks in the history of Buddhist doctrine and art, presented on the basis of in-depth analysis of the styles and icons of stūpas…Read More

  It emphasizes the study of minor votive stūpas and those figured in reliefs, which, undamaged and represented with complete ornamentation, are testimonies about the conception and use of this object of worship.

  Another emphasis of this work is on stylistics, i.e. the study of styles systematically conducted with a precise and elaborate method, constituting a full­ fledged discipline, which, along with iconography, provides a solid foundation for scientific history of art.

  Buddhist texts relevant to the conception, building and worship of stūpas, such as Kriyāsaṁgraha, are referred to, with edition and translation.

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  ए बिबलियोग्राफी ऑफ आनंद केन्तिश कुमारस्वामी

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  ISBN : 81-7304-428-7

  Edited By :James S. Crouch

  
  (2002, 430pp.)
  Rs.1,000.00

  The volume documents the remarkably productive career of one of the great minds of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accurate bibliography is the result of more than twenty years of devoted research and scholarship. Its publication is an event of the first importance for all scholars of Indian art and religion…Read More

  Moreover, it is an equally invaluable reference work for anyone concerned with the study of comparative religion, mythology, traditional metaphysics, iconography and symbolism, in general. It describes in detail American, English and Indian first editions of ninety-five books and pamphlets by Coomaraswamy, with descriptions of ninety-six books containing contributions by him to periodicals and newspapers (as well as translations of his writings). It also lists 420 reviews of Coomaraswamy’s books and 216 other items about him and his works. All entries are fully annotated and a complete index is provided.
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  ऐस्थेटिक्स एंड मोटीवेशन्स इन आर्ट एंड साइंस

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  ISBN : 81-224-0746-3

  Edited By :KIRAN C. GUPTA

  
  (1996, xvi+183pp.)
  Rs.350.00

  This volume is a collection of twelve papers invited for a National Seminar based on the seminal work, “Truth and Beauty; Aesthetics and Motivations in Science” by the Nobel Laureate S. Chandrasekhar. The contributions are by experts in arts, fine arts and science,…Read More

  exploring the themes of creativity, beauty and truth in their respective subjects of specializations. It is hoped that this publication will lead to more dialogues between the practitioners of arts and sciences.

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  बारक्यू इंडिया:द नियो-रोमन रिलिजस ऑर्कीटेक्चर ऑफ साउथ एशियाः ए ग्लोबल स्टाइलिस्टिक सर्वे

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  ISBN : 81-7305-161-5

  Edited By :Stylistic Survey, Jose Pereira

  
  (2000, xix+497pp, line-drawings, b&w plates, bibl., index)
  Rs.2,500.00

  Baroque India is the fruit of over forty years of research and is the work of one professionally trained in the history of Indian art (Hindu, Buddhist and Jain). In addition, he is the author of a survey of Islamic architecture worldwide, which includes, of course, the Indo-Islamic traditions…Read More

  It is his belief that Indian Baroque-or, more correctly, Indian Neo­ Roman -cannot be properly appreciated without an understanding of the architectural styles that preceded it on the subcontinent, and which exercised a significant impact on it.

  In so doing, the author has tried to outline a consistent aesthetic theory of Neo­ Roman, to portray its five major modes – Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassicism – as expressions of the Neo-Roman essence, immanently developing, in the indicated sequence, one from the other, and pullulating a rich variety of spatial themes that both display a marked originality and manifest a capacity for assimilating the spatial nuances of the other architectural styles.

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  बृहदेश्वर टेम्पल फॉर्म एंड मीनिंग

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  ISBN : 978081-7305-388-7

  Edited By :R. Nagaswamy

  
  (2010, xxvi+280pp.+xxvi, halftone illus. 284, bibl., figs. & maps 13, index)
  Rs.3,000.00

  The great temple at Tañjāvur is a visual representation of cosmic power on earth that remains, according to the pious wish of the builder, so long as the sun and moon lasts. The God who inhabits this abode is said to be seated with his consort on the summit of the metaphysical…Read More

  mountain surrounded by a circle of peaks in which the divine power descends in diminishing potency as it comes down gradually and takes his abode at the peak of the circle, appropriate to his direction and also the relative importance in the hierarchy. So each peak is a virtual temple. This metaphysical mountain is called the great meru-Mahameru, which forms the basic concept of the Bṛhadīśvara Temple of Tanjore.

  The Bṛhadīśvara Temple locates for the first time in Indian history, the 108forms of nṛtta karaṇas on the upper storey around the sanctum wall in sculptural form and reflects the concept of cosmic space in which Śiva’s dance takes place. The available karaṇas are discussed in this volume for the first time in the light of Abhinavagupta’s commentary and also the views of modem scholars.

  Every structure in the temple is dated with the help of inscriptions. The story is taken through the centuries and its change in meaning and ritual are brought out in this volume which points out what a Hindu temple mean when in full form and through the centuries. The personality of the builder, the role of rājaguru in planning and guidance and also the names of architects who designed and carved the sculptures and executed the lovely paintings are also furnished in this volume which makes it an invaluable work on the temple.

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  • Content List

   

  • Introduction

   

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  डीर इन रॉक आर्ट ऑफ इंडिया एंड यूरोप

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  Edited By :GIACAMO CAMURI, ANGELO FOSSATI AND YASHODHAR MATHPAL

  
  (1993, xvi+150pp. tables, line - drawings., col. and b & w illus.)
  
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  इनसाइक्लोपीडिया ऑफ इंडियन टेम्पल ऑर्कीटेक्चर

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  ISBN : 81-86526-00.5

  Edited By :M A Dhaky

  
  (1996, text & plates, xxix+596pp., line drawings, gloss., index, 1,674 b&w plates, ISBN 81-86526-00.5)
  Rs.7,500.00

  Vol. I, Part 3: This part in two binds covers the full range of Indian temple architecture, surveys medieval temples and associated buildings in Upper Drāviḍadēśa,…Read More

  particularly those in the territories of the Cāḷukyas of Kalyāṇa, Hoysaḷas of Dorassamudra, as well as in those of other dynasties such as the Kadambas, Raṭṭas, Guttas, Senas and Śāntaras in Karnataka and those in the domain of the Kākatīyas of Waraṅgal together with those of the Cāḷukyas of Vemulavāḍa; Telugu Coḍas, Reḍḍis, and Malyālas, all in theTeliṅgāṇa area of Andhra Pradesh, and finally the Ālupas of Tuḷunāḍu. Arranged by region and dynasty, the chapters also focus, wherever evidence is clear, on the nature of local idioms and origins of the regional styles. These are copiously illustrated with drawings and photographs.

  Vol. II, Part 3: This part also in two binds surveys the tenth century temples (and associated structures) in different provinces of the north Indian megaterritory, built under the political aegis of the then ruling various provincial-principal and subordinate-dynasties. Among these, the more notable were the Cāhamānas of Śākambharī and of Naḍḍula, and Solaṅkīs of Aṇahillapāṭaka in westem India; also, the Kaḷacūris of Cedideśa olim Ḍāhaladeśa, Candellas of Jejākabhukti, and Kacchapaghāṭas of Gopagiri in central India and the Somavaṁśīs of Kaliṅgadeśa in eastem India. The text, running in twenty-one chapters, has copiously illustrated with drawings (ground plan and base­elevations) and adequate number of photographs.

  Volume	ISBN
  Vol I, 1996, text & plates, xxix+596pp., line drawings, gloss., index, 1,674 b&w plates	81-86526-00.5
  Vol II, 1998, text & plates, xxviii+426pp., line drawings, gloss., index, 913 b&w plates	81-7304-226-8

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  एसेज़ ऑन जैन आर्ट

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  ISBN : 81-7304-534-8

  Edited By :RICHARD J. COHEN

  
  (2003, 110pp)
  Rs.1,450.00

  This volume deals with Coomaraswamy’s 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…Read More

  Jaina art and its symbolic inventory held a special place in Coomaraswamy’s formulation of the history of Indian painting, indeed Indian civilization itself. He was the first to recognize its chronological place in the succession of style. The Jaina paintings are not only important for the student of Jaina iconography 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 unknown school of lndian art.

  Holding the view that in order to make these paintings fully comprehensible, a short account of Jainism and of the legends of Mahāvīra and Kālakācārya, 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.

  Richard J. Cohen, an eminent American Indologist, has edited the book painstakingly, consulting not only the author’s 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 Coomaraswamy’s seminal and profound contribution to the study of Indian painting will benefit not only art historians, but also artists.

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  (English) ESSAYS ON MUSIC

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  ISBN : 81-7304-611-5

  Edited By :PREM LATA SHARMA

  
  (2010, 153, Preface, Introduction)
  Rs.500.00

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