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Handbook of Tibetan iconometry a guide to the arts of the 17th century /

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Handbook of Tibetan iconometry a guide to the arts of the 17th century /

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Venturing upon dizzy heights lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts / by Ross, Bruce, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Wordsworth's rainbow and ours : a Kabbalist understanding of beauty -- Being is believing : the underpinnings of Walter Benjamin's deconstruction of historicism -- Dancing cranes and empty mind : the fusion of Wu-Chi and T'ai-Chi in ancient Chinese mountain poetry -- The willing subject and the non-willing subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's hyperborean : Taoist and deconstructive challenges to the idea of virtue -- Dances with bears : the beginnings of western art -- Vincent van Gogh's irises : venturing upon dizzy heights -- Figureless landscape : the persistence of the sublime in American landscape painting -- The essence of haiku -- A world out of balance and in balance : urban and nature haiku -- Narratives of the heart : haibun -- On defining haibun to a western audience -- Tanka : celebrating the natural world and the postmodern condition.…”
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Venturing upon dizzy heights lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts / by Ross, Bruce, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Wordsworth's rainbow and ours : a Kabbalist understanding of beauty -- Being is believing : the underpinnings of Walter Benjamin's deconstruction of historicism -- Dancing cranes and empty mind : the fusion of Wu-Chi and T'ai-Chi in ancient Chinese mountain poetry -- The willing subject and the non-willing subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's hyperborean : Taoist and deconstructive challenges to the idea of virtue -- Dances with bears : the beginnings of western art -- Vincent van Gogh's irises : venturing upon dizzy heights -- Figureless landscape : the persistence of the sublime in American landscape painting -- The essence of haiku -- A world out of balance and in balance : urban and nature haiku -- Narratives of the heart : haibun -- On defining haibun to a western audience -- Tanka : celebrating the natural world and the postmodern condition.…”
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A communion of subjects animals in religion, science, and ethics /

Table of Contents: “…Animals in religion, science, and ethics : in and out of time -- Animals in Abrahamic traditions -- Animals in Indian traditions -- Animals in Chinese traditions -- East meets West : animals in philosophy and cultural history -- Animals in myth -- Animals in ritual -- Animals in art -- Animals as subjects : ethical implications for science -- Are animals for humans? …”
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A communion of subjects animals in religion, science, and ethics /

Table of Contents: “…Animals in religion, science, and ethics : in and out of time -- Animals in Abrahamic traditions -- Animals in Indian traditions -- Animals in Chinese traditions -- East meets West : animals in philosophy and cultural history -- Animals in myth -- Animals in ritual -- Animals in art -- Animals as subjects : ethical implications for science -- Are animals for humans? …”
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The Buddhist dead practices, discourses, representations /

Table of Contents: “…Strong -- Cross-dressing with the dead : asceticism, ambivalence, and institutional values in an Indian monastic code / Gregory Schopen -- The moment of death in Daoxuan's vinaya commentary / Koichi Shinohara -- The secret art of dying : esoteric deathbed practices in Heian Japan / Jacqueline I. …”
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The Buddhist dead practices, discourses, representations /

Table of Contents: “…Strong -- Cross-dressing with the dead : asceticism, ambivalence, and institutional values in an Indian monastic code / Gregory Schopen -- The moment of death in Daoxuan's vinaya commentary / Koichi Shinohara -- The secret art of dying : esoteric deathbed practices in Heian Japan / Jacqueline I. …”
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Disguise, deception, trompe-l'oeil interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Merriam -- Destabilization of reality in Renaissance and baroque trompe-l'oeil -- More than meets the eye : Giulio Romano, Federico II Gonzaga, and the triumph of trompe-l'oeil at the Palazzo del Te in Mantu / Sally Hickson -- Baroque poetry in Italy : deception, illusion, and epistemological shifts / John Picchione -- Comedic irony and the art of sarcasm -- The masks of comedy : a general theory applied to Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream / Vincent Francavilla -- On the science and art of sarcasm / Albert N. …”
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Disguise, deception, trompe-l'oeil interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Merriam -- Destabilization of reality in Renaissance and baroque trompe-l'oeil -- More than meets the eye : Giulio Romano, Federico II Gonzaga, and the triumph of trompe-l'oeil at the Palazzo del Te in Mantu / Sally Hickson -- Baroque poetry in Italy : deception, illusion, and epistemological shifts / John Picchione -- Comedic irony and the art of sarcasm -- The masks of comedy : a general theory applied to Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream / Vincent Francavilla -- On the science and art of sarcasm / Albert N. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view