Bloomsbury research handbook of Indian aesthetics and the philosophy of art

By:

Chakrabarti, Arindam Ed

Publication details: London Bloomsbury Publishing 2018Description: x,428pISBN:

9781350058026

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

701 CHA

Contents:

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

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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

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