Zimmer:artistic Form & Yoga In The Sacred Images Of India Cloth (Works by Heinrich Zimmer, 7) - Hardcover

Zimmer, H

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691072892 ISBN 13: 9780691072890

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1992

Synopsis

"The book is as vital today as it was the year it was written, still unmatched for the eloquence of its recognition and celebration of this inspiration of Indian art." --From the foreword

This pioneering work opened C. G. Jung's eyes to the psychological and spiritual significance of the Indian mandala, and it remains the clearest introduction to the essence of Indian art and yoga for both the specialist and general reader. Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) was the first to identify the radical difference between Western classical and Indian art. His revolutionary approach to understanding the stylized, often sexual, sacred symbols of India was simply to take them on their own terms as techniques of spiritual transformation.

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Review:

"[The] relevance [of this book] remains as undiminished as the artistic and philosophical influence of India in a world of falling frontiers."--Sarva Daman Singh, South Asia

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0691072892
• ISBN 13: 9780691072890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 354