The Dance of Siva
Contains essays on Indian music, the status of Indian women, intellectual freedom, and the synthetic nature of Indian culture.
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Sold By : Sankar Pathippagam
- Author : Ananda K.Coomarasamy
- Language : Tamil
- Stock : Available
Highlights
- SubjectsIndian Art History, Nataraja (Cosmic Dance), Hindu Philosophy
- PlacesIndia, Chidambaram
- Time Period20th Century
- Ideal ForScholars / Art Enthusiasts / Global Readers
- Age RangeScholars / Art Enthusiasts / Global Readers
- Reading LevelAdvance
- MoodScholarly & Profound
Category:others
Tags: The Dance of Siva, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Indian art and culture, Indian Art, Philosophy, Nataraja, Sankar Pathippagam
Published By: Sankar Pathippagam
A masterpiece of cultural translation. Coomaraswamy bridges the gap between Eastern spirituality and Western intellectualism. The title essay famously analyzes the bronze Nataraja of Chidambaram, demonstrating how Shiva's dance symbolizes the rhythmic play of cosmic creation, preservation, and destruction—a concept that remarkably parallels modern physics.
From the Book
Every part of such an image as the Nataraja is directly expressive
not of any superstition or dogma
but of evident facts.
The essential contribution of India
then
is simply her Indianness; her great humiliation would be to substitute or to have substituted for this own character a cosmopolitan veneer.