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The dance of Shiva : fourteen Indian essays / Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.
LIBRA - Special DS423 .C6 1957
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (Ananda Kentish), 1877-1947.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India--Civilization.
- India.
- Civilization.
- Art, Indic.
- Art--India.
- Art.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Polsky, Ned (stamp) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 182 pages 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Noonday Press, [1957]
- Contents:
- What has India contributed to human welfare?
- Hindu view of art : historical
- Hindu view of art : theory of beauty
- That beauty is a state
- Buddhist primitives
- The dance of Shiva
- Indian images with many arms
- Indian music
- Status of Indian women
- Sahaja
- Intellectual fraternity
- Cosmopolitan view of Nietzsche
- Young India
- Individuality, autonomy and function.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-182).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is eighth printing, 1969.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has embossed stamp "Ex Libris Ned Polsky" on initial page.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. note "New York City Dec. 1974" on p.2 of cover.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, 1877-1947. Dance of Shiva.
- OCLC:
- 2155403
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