Making a Canon : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Sri Lanka, and the Place of Buddhist Art
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Buddhism and Modernity
ISBN-10
0226836061
ISBN-13
9780226836065
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 2024
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
548 grams
Dimensions
15.80 x 23.70 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
History of art / art & design stylesBuddhism
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The story of how one scholar’s experiences in Sri Lanka shaped the contours of the Buddhist visual canon. An early interpreter of Buddhist art to the West, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy laid the foundation of what would become the South Asian visual canon, particularly through his efforts to understand how Buddhist art emerged and developed. In Making a Canon, Janice Leoshko examines how Coomaraswamy’s experience as the director of a mineralogical survey in Sri Lanka shaped his understanding of South Asian art and religion. Along the way, she reveals how Coomaraswamy’s distinctive repetition of Sri Lankan visual images in his work influenced the direction of South Asia’s canon formation and left a lasting impression on our understanding of Buddhist art.
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