Mediaeval Sinhalese Art (Record no. 66179)

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028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 709.54 COO
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Mediaeval Sinhalese Art
Statement of responsibility, etc /Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Munshiram Manoharlal
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2003.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvi, 344p.
Dimensions : 28cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 00
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc This book is a record of the work and the life of the craftsman in a feudal society not unlike that of Early Mediaeval Europe. It deals, not with a period of great attainment in fine art, but with a beautiful and dignified scheme of peasant decoration, based upon the traditions of Indian art and craft. Sinhalese art is essentially Indian, but possesses this special interest, that it is in many ways of an earlier character, and more truly Hindu - though Buddhist in intention - than any Indian art surviving on the mainland so late as the beginning of the nineteenth century. The minor arts, and the painting, are such as we might expect to have been associated with the culture of Asoka's time, and the builders of Barahat. The period dealt with has been called Mediaeval; but it must be understood that changes of style in decorative art take place comparatively slowly, and that it is generally impossible to say at a glance whether a given piece of work be of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth century, or even older or later. Most of the specimens here figured or described date from the latter part of the eighteenth century. Mediaeval conditions survived in full force until the British occupation of Kandy in 1815, and what is actually described in this book is the work of Sinhalese craftsmen under mediaeval conditions, mainly as these survived in the eighteenth century, and, in a less degree, even to the present day.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sinhalese Art
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mediaeval art
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Art
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Ananada K Coumaraswamy
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 26/09/2025 Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar 0.00   709.54 COO G6636 26/09/2025 26/09/2025 Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection Prof. Romila Thapar Collection
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