The Art of Tantra

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About this book
Coming from India, yet having links with recent trends in Western art, Tantra combines eroticism, mathematics, magic and metaphysics in a view of life which offers a uniquely successful antidote to the anxieti^ of our time. This first complete survey of Tantric art, originally published In 1973, shows through text and illustrations how Tantra invites us to follow its example by a personal meditative and visual exploration of self and the
'A book to have for beauty and interest, which may well be a guidé to an understanding of life'- Arts Review : /
The author writes with conviction ahd persuasive enthusiasm. The illustrations are beautiful throughout. The book should recommend itssif to readers in search of exotic manifestation of sex in art and religion' -British Book News
Philip Rawson is currently Keeper of the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology in the University of Durham. Formerly he was Kee^ er of the Department of Eastern Art in the... Tovább

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About this book
Coming from India, yet having links with recent trends in Western art, Tantra combines eroticism, mathematics, magic and metaphysics in a view of life which offers a uniquely successful antidote to the anxieti^ of our time. This first complete survey of Tantric art, originally published In 1973, shows through text and illustrations how Tantra invites us to follow its example by a personal meditative and visual exploration of self and the
'A book to have for beauty and interest, which may well be a guidé to an understanding of life'- Arts Review : /
The author writes with conviction ahd persuasive enthusiasm. The illustrations are beautiful throughout. The book should recommend itssif to readers in search of exotic manifestation of sex in art and religion' -British Book News
Philip Rawson is currently Keeper of the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology in the University of Durham. Formerly he was Kee^ er of the Department of Eastern Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and ./ Lecturer on Oriental Art at the University of London. In 1963 he organized 'an exhibition of Indian art, music and dancing for the Edinburgh Festival, and in 1971 the important exhibition of Tantra Art at the Hayward Gallery, London. He has published several books on eastern art including The Art lot South-East Asia (1963) in this series, Tantra (1973), Tao (with Laszio Legeza - 1973), and Erotic Art of India (1977), as well asjcontributing articles to many learned journals.
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