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