by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy · Dover Publications · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780486248172
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«The Dance of Siva» is Ananda K. Coomaraswamy's collection of essays on Indian art and culture (Dover, paperback, 192 pages, in English).
Fourteen essays by Coomaraswamy on Indian civilisation: art, dance, music, philosophy and religion. The figure of dancing Shiva serves as a guiding thread to a vision of the unity of life, and the author also examines social organisation, the family, romantic love and the role of women in the country's cultural tradition.
The 1985 edition is a reprint of the work originally published in 1924, with a foreword by Romain Rolland and 27 black-and-white photographic plates.
For those interested in Indian art and culture, Hindu religion and the history of Indian civilisation.
Ananda Kentish Muthu Coomaraswamy was a Ceylonese metaphysician, historian and a philosopher of Indian art who was an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West. He has been described as "the groundbreaking theorist who was largely responsible for introducing ancient Indian art to the West".
