Making a Canon : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Sri Lanka, and the Place of Buddhist Art.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leoshko, Janice.

Series:

Buddhism and Modernity Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (Ananda Kentish), 1877-1947.

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.

Art critics--Sri Lanka--Biography.

Art critics.

Art historians--Sri Lanka--Biography.

Art historians.

Buddhism--Influence.

Buddhism.

Buddhist art--Historiography.

Buddhist art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Note on Usage

CHAPTER ONE Placing Ananda Coomaraswamy

CHAPTER TWO In Old Ceylon, 1903-1905

CHAPTER THREE The Last Year in Old Ceylon, 1906

CHAPTER FOUR What Is in Mediaeval Sinhalese Art?

CHAPTER FIVE A Buddhist Art Turn, 1908-1910

CHAPTER SIX Buddha, Shiva, Mudra: Selecting Examples of Indian Art, 1910-1920

CHAPTER SEVEN Canons: Making and Unmaking

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Leoshko, Janice Making a Canon

ISBN:

9780226836126

OCLC:

1478699947