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020			_a978-81-208-1389-2
040			_cMotilal Banarasidas
082			_a111.850954 D3666 A _b301914
100			_aHarsha Dehejia
245			_aThe advaita of art _cHarsha Dehejia
260			_aDelhi _bMotilal Banarsidass _c1996
300			_axviii,194 Pp
521			_aThis inquiry is an undertaking to demonstrate that aesthetic experience in the classical Indian tradition, on its own merit, without being subordinated to rituals and practices commonly held under the rubric of religion, is capable of providing a transcendent experience to a prepared aesthete. Dr. Dehejia examines the dynamics of two aesthetics processes, that stemming from aesthetic emotion or rasa and from aesthetic form or rupa and cogently underpins them within the advaitic epistemology of Kasmir Saivism. The Advaita of Art, Dr. Dehejia argues, is a joyous celebration of affirmation and assertion and not negation.
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