Quest

Quest

Author: George Robert Stow Mead

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 826

ISBN-13:

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The Art of South and Southeast Asia

The Art of South and Southeast Asia

Author: Steven Kossak

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0870999923

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Presents works of art selected from the South and Southeast Asian and Islamic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, lessons plans, and classroom activities.


Chinese Religious Art

Chinese Religious Art

Author: Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780739180587

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Daoism has an elaborate pantheon and ritualistic art, as well as a secular tradition best expressed in monochrome ink painting. Part Four covers the development of Buddhist art beginning with its entry into China in the second century. Its monuments--comprised largely of cave temples carved high in the mountains along the frontiers of China and large metropolitan temples --


Modernism and the Ideology of History

Modernism and the Ideology of History

Author: Louise Blakeney Williams

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-07-04

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1139434691

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Louise Williams explores the nature of historical memory in the work of five major Modernists: Yeats, Pound, Hulme, Ford and Lawrence. These Modernists, Williams argues, started their careers with historical assumptions derived from the nineteenth century. But their views on the universal structure of history, on the abandonment of progress and the adoption of a cyclical sense of the past, were the result of important conflicts and changes within the Modernist period. Williams focuses on the period immediately before World War I, and shows in detail how Modernism developed and why it is considered a unique intellectual movement. She also revisits the theory that the Edwardian age was a difficult period of transition to the modern world. Finally, she illuminates the contribution of non-Western culture to the literature and thought of the period. This wide-ranging and inter-disciplinary study is essential reading for literary and cultural historians of the modernist period.


London, Modernism, and 1914

London, Modernism, and 1914

Author: Michael J. K. Walsh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-05-06

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0521195802

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A new take on the impact of war on the London art and literary scene and the emergence of modernism, first published in 2010.


Review of Theology & Philosophy

Review of Theology & Philosophy

Author: Allan Menzies

Publisher:

Published: 1912

Total Pages: 864

ISBN-13:

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Contains reviews, abstracts, and bibliography of the most recent theological and philosophical literature.


Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia

Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia

Author: Fabio Rambelli

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-09-06

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1441199020

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This is a cross-cultural study of the multifaceted relations between Buddhism, its materiality, and instances of religious violence and destruction in East Asia, which remains a vast and still largely unexplored field of inquiry. Material objects are extremely important not just for Buddhist practice, but also for the conceptualization of Buddhist doctrines; yet, Buddhism developed ambivalent attitudes towards such need for objects, and an awareness that even the most sacred objects could be destroyed. After outlining Buddhist attitudes towards materiality and its vulnerability, the authors propose a different and more inclusive definition of iconoclasm-a notion that is normally not employed in discussions of East Asian religions. Case studies of religious destruction in East Asia are presented, together with a new theoretical framework drawn from semiotics and cultural studies, to address more general issues related to cultural value, sacredness, and destruction, in an attempt to understand instances in which the status and the meaning of the sacred in any given culture is questioned, contested, and ultimately denied, and how religious institutions react to those challenges.