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	Publisher: D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
	Author Edited By B. N. Saraswati, S. C. Malik
	Language: English
	Pages: 353
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	7.5x10 inch
	Weight 1.22 kg
	Edition: 2020
	ISBN: 9788124610602
	HCC939

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About the Book An assemblage of twenty-six scholarly essays: in honour of Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, the book attempts to conjure up the integral vision of art-exploring, as it does, the underlying unity of different disciplines. Written by distinguished Indian and foreign scholars artists, art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, scientists, philosophers and litterateurs, who have shared or subscribed to Dr Vatsyayan's holistic vision of arts, these essays look for the linkages that have existed within the arts, between the arts, and across the cultures focusing, contextually, on the form, the content, and the vision of art in terms of time and space. With at once stimulating alternative viewpoints available to humankind today, the authors consider space, time and consciousness as they are related to, and expressed in, metaphor, symbol and creative process. Together with cross-cultural comparisons of art, the book also explores the future of man as an artist. Art. The Integral Vision, besides the Editors Introduction giving an overview on the presentations, is blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama's personal message. A foremost authority on Indian art and culture, Dr Kapila Vatsyayan is well known to all serious scholars of art history, religion, philosophy and cosmology. A prolific author and recipient of several honours, including the prestigious Padma Shree (1990) and Padma Vibhushan (2011), she has convincingly spelt out the unifying principles of cultural plurality and the interdependence and interrelatedness of creative arts. This holistic vision unmistakably manifest in her writings has come to finest fruition in her setting up (in 1985) the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. This is a fascinating book for wide-ranging specialists and students interested in the mathematical, geometrical, metaphysical, astrophysical, cosmological, philosophical, psychological, historical, mythological and metaphorical understanding of art, especially the Indian art.

Preface Kapila Vatsyayan, a great humanist, has made outstanding contribution to the study of Indian cultural heritage. This is in terms of materials, ideas and traditions. She embodies all this in her very life, the very best of India's impeccable spiritual life. Kapilaji is India's one of the most original thinkers and an artist in the true sense of the word. That she is a visionary, having a holistic and integral vision, is visible in her vast manifested works, her writings, not only academically but also in her administrative endeavours and aspirations. She has inspired a whole generation of scholars, evidenced in the gamut of artists, art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers and litterateurs not only in India but the world over. Kapilaji is a repository of Indian cultural traditions, both in theory and practice. In view of her immense contribution, a felicitation volume was brought out on her 66th birthday, entitled Art, the Integral Vision, with essays by leading scholars from all over the world. These essays explicitly and clearly acknowledge her far-reaching impact in various areas mentioned above. Keeping all these contributions by her in mind, and the value of the first volume of Art, the Integral Vision, it was decided to republish it using the ultra-modern technology now available in printing.

Introduction This book is a loving tribute to Kapila Vatsyayan, one of India's most original thinkers, an artist and a sarvadarsikd in the true sense of the term. As one of the foremost authorities on Indian art and culture, she is well known to all serious scholars of art history, religion, philosophy and cosmology. In her works we come across the highly stimulating and totally absorbing proposition concerning the mutual interdependence and interrelationship of the arts. As she puts it: "Each aspect of the art has its own integrity, yet it functions within a dimension of interdependence and interrelatedness with nature, culture, lifestyle, social structure and the cosmocentric world view. It is in the simultaneous perception of these interlocking categories that the holistic vision of the art becomes manifest." This vision culminated in her setting up, in 1985, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) at New Delhi. IGNCA aims to make aware how the various elements of art function as complementary categories within the unity of life. In this perception all disciplines, from the arts to the sciences, move into a dynamic, creative oneness. This point of view not only poses a challenge to the fragmented method of understanding art, but perhaps, presents one of the major alternative means to avoid the catastrophe of conflict that has befallen modern civilization. This venture is sanctified by the asirvacana of H.H. the Dalai Lama the light of modern Asia, the hope of the chaotic world. We are very honoured to receive his blessings. Kapilaji's integral vision has inspired a whole generation of scholars making observations or assertions on art (Michael Meschke), and human nature and culture (B.N. Saraswati). The twenty-six essays collected here are written in her honour by eminent scholars from eight different countries with multiple cultural and academic backgrounds. Most of them have long-time association with her adventure of ideas. Our sole aim in these introductory pages is to underline the integral vision of art that encompasses a variety of concerns, as that of the artists, art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, physicists, philosophers and litterateurs-all intent on reducing a baffling heterogeneity to a conceptual framework. The authors of this volume have articulated their own experience, calling upon the linkages that exist within the arts, between the arts and across the cultures. They speak of the form, the content and the vision of art in time and space.

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