Bloomsbury research handbook of Indian aesthetics and the philosophy of art
Chakrabarti, Arindam Ed.
Bloomsbury research handbook of Indian aesthetics and the philosophy of art - London Bloomsbury Publishing 2018 - x,428p.
CONTENTS
List of Figures vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Contemporary Indian Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art 1
1.Resonance and Its Reverberations : Two Cultures in Indian Epistemology of Aesthetic Meaning 25
Lawrence McCrea
2. Rasa Aesthetics goes Global: Relevance and Legitimacy 43
Priyadarshi Patnaik
3. Who is afraid of Mimesis? Contesting the Common Sense of Indian Aesthetics through the Theory of `Mimesis' or Anukarana Vada, 71
Parul Dave Mukherji
4.Thoughts on Svara and Rasa: Music as Thinking/Thinking as Music 93
Mukund Lath
5. The Aesthetics of the Resplendent Sapphire: Erotic Devotion in Rupa Gosvamin's Ujjvalanilamani 107
Nrisinha Prasad Bhaduri
6. The Impersonal Subjectivity of Aesthetic Emotion 127
Bijoy H Boruah
7. Refining the Repulsive: Towards an Indian Aesthetics of the Ugly and the Disgusting 149
Arindam Chakrabarti
8. The Perfume of/from the Past: Modern Reflections on Ancient Art 167
Sudipta Kaviraj
9. Aesthetics of Theft 195
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
10. Approaches to Time in Rajput and Mughal painting 215
B.N.Goswamy
11. Deep Seeing: Notes on Kutiyattam 221
David Shulman
12. Realizing the body in movement: Gestures of Freedom in the Dance Aesthetics of Rabindranath Tagore and Kumar Shahani 249
Rimli Bhattacharya
13. The Aesthetical Paradox of the Hermit's Hut 269
Kazi Khaleed Ashraf
14. Aesthetics of Touch and Skin: An Essay in Contemporary Indian Political Phenomenology 297
Gopal Guru
15. Demands and Dilemmas of Durga Puja `Art': Notes on a Contemporary Festival Aesthetics 317
Tapati Guha-Thakurta
16. The Sky of Cinema 353
Moinak Biswas
17. Towards a Gandhian Aesthetics: The Poetics of Surrender and the Art of Brahmacharya 373
Tridip Suhrud
18. Aesthetic Judgement of Disgrace 391
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Glossary 411
List of Contributors 415
Index 421
9781350058026
701 / CHA
Bloomsbury research handbook of Indian aesthetics and the philosophy of art - London Bloomsbury Publishing 2018 - x,428p.
CONTENTS
List of Figures vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Contemporary Indian Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art 1
1.Resonance and Its Reverberations : Two Cultures in Indian Epistemology of Aesthetic Meaning 25
Lawrence McCrea
2. Rasa Aesthetics goes Global: Relevance and Legitimacy 43
Priyadarshi Patnaik
3. Who is afraid of Mimesis? Contesting the Common Sense of Indian Aesthetics through the Theory of `Mimesis' or Anukarana Vada, 71
Parul Dave Mukherji
4.Thoughts on Svara and Rasa: Music as Thinking/Thinking as Music 93
Mukund Lath
5. The Aesthetics of the Resplendent Sapphire: Erotic Devotion in Rupa Gosvamin's Ujjvalanilamani 107
Nrisinha Prasad Bhaduri
6. The Impersonal Subjectivity of Aesthetic Emotion 127
Bijoy H Boruah
7. Refining the Repulsive: Towards an Indian Aesthetics of the Ugly and the Disgusting 149
Arindam Chakrabarti
8. The Perfume of/from the Past: Modern Reflections on Ancient Art 167
Sudipta Kaviraj
9. Aesthetics of Theft 195
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
10. Approaches to Time in Rajput and Mughal painting 215
B.N.Goswamy
11. Deep Seeing: Notes on Kutiyattam 221
David Shulman
12. Realizing the body in movement: Gestures of Freedom in the Dance Aesthetics of Rabindranath Tagore and Kumar Shahani 249
Rimli Bhattacharya
13. The Aesthetical Paradox of the Hermit's Hut 269
Kazi Khaleed Ashraf
14. Aesthetics of Touch and Skin: An Essay in Contemporary Indian Political Phenomenology 297
Gopal Guru
15. Demands and Dilemmas of Durga Puja `Art': Notes on a Contemporary Festival Aesthetics 317
Tapati Guha-Thakurta
16. The Sky of Cinema 353
Moinak Biswas
17. Towards a Gandhian Aesthetics: The Poetics of Surrender and the Art of Brahmacharya 373
Tridip Suhrud
18. Aesthetic Judgement of Disgrace 391
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Glossary 411
List of Contributors 415
Index 421
9781350058026
701 / CHA