A Dictionary of Buddhist and Hindu Iconography: Objects, Devices, Concepts, Rites and Terms - Couverture rigide

Bunce, Fredrick W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8124600619 ISBN 13 : 9788124600610

Editeur : D.K. Print World Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

Man has, from times immemorial, exhibited a striking predilection for symbols. Which, through written words, drawings, sptures or other ual/iconographic representations, seem to have shaped much of mankind's ture. From the simplest, yet eloquent, drawings on the walls of the prehistoric caves, through the sophistication of Egyptian imagery, the sptural embroidered wealth of a Khajuraho, or the convoluted elegance of a Mannerist painting all interweave iconographic imagery so inextricably into their very core that, without its ual/didactic richness, these would be a mere shell, a hollow vanity! Veritably, our tural scenograph will lose much of its aesthetic charm and meaning, once it is bereft of iconography. Over the centuries, Buddhisn and Hinduism (Brahmanical) have built up pantheon after pantheon, with a bewildering number of divinities, in varying forms and emanations and, significantly, with myriad iconographic attributes. Which, for both their definable precision and complex multi-interpretationa-lity, not merely seem paradoxical, but may baffle even the specialists and the initiated as well. Here is just the Dictionary trying, for the first time, to help you see into the 'divine paradoxes'of Buddhist-and-Hindu iconography and, simultaneously, interpret the very nuances of their iconic language. Painstakingly compiled by a distinguished scholar of Oriental/Buddhist Art, it is a Buddhist-and-Hindu Iconologia par excellence, spelling out vividly thousands of iconic represen-tations, which these two of the world's oldest, sustained faiths have left for all times to come. In its monumental effort to explain/interpret Buddhist-and-Hindu ual/conceptual symbols, images, objects, concepts and rites, the Dictionary extends the definition of iconography to embrace numerous peripheral/other terms, which either have immediate relevance to iconographic principles or are hard to dispense with in ualizing the true import of different icons. Dr.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D.K. Print World Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8124600619
• ISBN 13: 9788124600610
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 501
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible