Rasa performing the divine in india

by schwartz susan l.,

ISBN:	9788120832626
Book Name:	Rasa performing the divine in india
Author:	schwartz susan l.,
Publisher:	MOTILAL BANARSIDASS PUBLISHERS PVT. LTD.
Edition:	first
Language:	English
Binding:	Paper Back
Publish Year:	2008
Total Pages:	128
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BOOK SUMMARY

While many people outside India find the images, sounds and practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to incorporate them into the global repertoire, few are aware of the central role of religious belief and practice in Indian aesthetics. Completing the trilogy that includes Darsan: Seeing the Divine in India and Mantra: Hearing the Divine in India and America, this volume focuses on how rasa has been applied in a range of Indian performance traditions. Rasa is taste, essence, flavor, How is it possible that a word used to describe a delicious masala can also be used to critique a Bharata Natyam performance? Rasa expresses the primary goals of performing arts in India in all the major literary, philosophical and aesthetic texts and it provides the cornerstone of the oral traditions of transmission. It is also essential to the study and production of sculpture, architecture and painting. Yet its primary referent is cuisine. This book articulates the religious sensibility underlying the traditional performing arts as well as other applications of rasa and examines the relationships between the arts and religion in India today.

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