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Title

A mediated magic : the Indian presence in modernism 1880-1930 / edited by Naman P. Ahuja and Louise Belfrage ; editors, Jyotindra Jain, Naman Ahuja.

Publication

Mumbai : Márg, September 2019.

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Additional Authors

• Ahuja, Naman P.
• Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, copyright holder.
• Belfrage, Louise,
• Marg Foundation (Mumbai, India), issuing body.
• Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, sponsor.

Description

184 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color); 32 cm

Summary

"Through the chapters of this volume important traces of Hindu and Buddhist thought in Western Modernism become clear: from art to music, dance, psychology, theatre and architecture. We find an intriguing interplay between the artistic, scientific, cultural and spiritual spheres-from both Asia and Europe-mediated by extraordinary personalities such as Anna Pavlova, Léon Bakst, Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Wassily Kandinsky, Natalia Goncharova, Rabindranath Tagore, Ananda Coomaraswamy and C.G. Jung."--Preface (page 7).

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Architecture
• Art and religion
• Art and science
• Art, Indic > 20th century
• Art, Indic
• Art, Modern > 19th century
• Arts, Indic
• Buddhism and art
• Dance
• Europe
• India
• Material culture
• Modernism (Art) > India > 20th century
• Music
• Psychology and art
• Theater

Genre/Form

• History.
• Illustrated works.

Note

• "Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit."
• Marg's quarterly publications receive support from the Tata Trusts.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface / Kurt Almqvist & Louise Belfrage -- Modernism's muse / Naman P. Ahuja -- Jung's "Intensive unconscious relation to India" / Sonu Shamdasani -- Modernism:some left-out narratives / Kalpana Sahni -- Theosophy as mediator / Isaac Lubelsky -- Enchanted interlocutor: Theosophy, India and European musical culture / Christopher M. Scheer -- "The mystery and sense of awe produced by the East": Léon Bakst, Anna Pavlova and the interpretation of South Asian Dance / Jane Pritchard -- Travelling as art and art as travelling: Carl Hagemann's theatrical conjurings of India / Peter W. Marx -- Hilma af Klint's in Stockholm / Julia Voss -- "The world in one nest": Tagore and Coomaraswamy's vision for craft as a means to utopia / Kristine Michael -- Rabindranath Tagore and the Bauhaus: a meeting of minds / Partha Mitter.

ISBN

• 9789383243280
• 9383243287
• 9789188717085
• 9188717089
• 9789383243287 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019315001

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries