A mediated magic
Subtitle: the Indian presence in modernism 1880-1930
By: edited by Naman P. Ahuja and Louise Belfrage ; editors, Jyotindra Jain, Naman Ahuja
Contributors: Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse; Sir Dorabji Tata Trust; Marg Foundation (Mumbai, India)
Publisher: Márg
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Mumbai
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9789383243280; 9789383243287; 9789188717085
Subjects: Modernism (Art); Indic Art; Modern Art; Theater; Psychology and art; Music; Dance; Buddhism and art; Art and science; Art and religion; Indic Arts; Architecture; Material culture
Description: "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).
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Kurt Almqvist & Louise Belfrage; title: Modernism's muse / Naman P. Ahuja; title: Jung's "Intensive unconscious relation to India" / Sonu Shamdasani; title: Modernism:some left-out narratives / Kalpana Sahni; title: Theosophy as mediator / Isaac Lubelsky; title: Enchanted interlocutor: Theosophy, India and European musical culture / Christopher M. Scheer; title: "The mystery and sense of awe produced by the East": Léon Bakst, Anna Pavlova and the interpretation of South Asian Dance / Jane Pritchard; title: Travelling as art and art as travelling: Carl Hagemann's theatrical conjurings of India / Peter W. Marx; title: Hilma af Klint's in Stockholm / Julia Voss; title: "The world in one nest": Tagore and Coomaraswamy's vision for craft as a means to utopia / Kristine Michael; title: Rabindranath Tagore and the Bauhaus: a meeting of minds / Partha Mitter.