Mediaeval Sinhalese Art: Being a Monograph on Mediaeval Sinhalese Arts & Crafts, Mainly As Surviving in the Eighteenth Century, With an Account of the Structure of Society Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:3279160 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3279160 N2 - This book is a record of the work and the life of the craftsman in a feudal society not unlike that of Early Mediaeval Europe. It deals, not with a period of great attainment in fine art, but with a beautiful and dignified scheme of peasant decoration, based upon the traditions of Indian art and craft. Sinhalese art is essentially Indian, but possesses this special interest, that it is in many ways of an earlier character, and more truly Hindu - though Buddhist in intention - than any Indian art surviving on the mainland so late as the beginning of the nineteenth century. The minor arts, and the painting, are such as we might expect to have been associated with the culture of Asoka's time, and the builders of Barahat. The period dealt with has been called Mediaeval; but it must be understood that changes of style in decorative art take place comparatively slowly, and that it is generally impossible to say at a glance whether a given piece of work be of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth century, or even older or later. Most of the specimens here figured or described date from the latter part of the eighteenth century. Mediaeval conditions survived in full force until the British occupation of Kandy in 1815, and what is actually described in this book is the work of Sinhalese craftsmen under mediaeval conditions, mainly as these survived in the eighteenth century, and, in a less degree, even to the present day. SN - 8121510929 TI - Mediaeval Sinhalese Art: Being a Monograph on Mediaeval Sinhalese Arts & Crafts, Mainly As Surviving in the Eighteenth Century, With an Account of the Structure of Society PB - Munshirm Manoharlal Pub Pvt Ltd KW - architecture KW - art KW - asia KW - buddhism KW - buddhist KW - ceylon KW - craft KW - dieties KW - graphic KW - hindu KW - hinduism KW - history KW - image KW - india KW - indian KW - lanka KW - mandir KW - mediaeval KW - medieval KW - painting KW - plastic KW - sculpture KW - sinhalese KW - sri KW - temple KW - theory KW - visual AU - Coomaraswamy, Ananda UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/8121510929 ER -