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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy's Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought is a collection of seventeen essays dealing with a specific 'aspect or application of the traditional theory of art'. Each essay takes up for discussion such topics as rhetoric, aesthetics, medieval theories, role of ornament in art icons and spectator, reason and intuition, symbolism, intention, imitation Buddhist art, Indian painting, pictorial relief, primitive art etc. Every chapter is provided with references and exhaustive notes.
Contents:
1. Figures of speech or figures of thought 2. The mediaeval theory of beauty 3. Ornament 4. Ars Sine Scientia Nihil 5. The meeting of eyes 6. Shaker furniture 7. Literary symbolism 8. Intention 9. Imitation, expression, and participation 10. The intellectual operation in Indian art 11. The nature of Buddhist art 12. Samvega, aesthetic shock 13. An early passage on Indian painting 14. Some references to pictorial relief 15. Primitive mentality 16. Notes on savage art 17. Symptom, diagnosis, and regimen 18. Walter Andrae : on the life of symbols.
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