Accepted: 10/23/2020
Published: 10/26/2020
Keywords: Hindu traditional aesthetics, beauty, art, mythology, religion, metaphysics
Available online: 20.10.2020
Antanas Andrijauskas The Concept of Beauty and Art in Traditional Indian Aesthetics. // Aesthetica Universalis 2020. 3-4. 71-98.
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CopyThe article’s main focus is a peculiar understanding of the concepts of beauty and art in traditional Indian aesthetics. It starts with a brief discussion of various external and internal factors that influenced the development of Indian aesthetic cannon and original features of the concepts of beauty and art. The author outlines that in comparison to aesthetic traditions of other great civilizations in Europe, the Middle East and East Asia, traditional Indian aesthetics and art differ by a larger diversity of their historical and regional forms, more clear-cut literature-centric orientation, and larger impact of mythology, religion and philosophical metaphysics on development of aesthetic ideas. Also, traditional Indian aesthetics and art emphasize the principles of symbolic thought and the search for metaphysical hidden manifestations of beauty much more. The article particularly deals with a discussion of the relationship between Indian aesthetics and art, showing that traditional Indian aesthetics is characterized by the original hierarchy of arts, in which the most predominant ones are those that derive from the rich Vedic cultural tradition, namely poetry and drama. Finally, a thorough investigation of the system of the main traditional Indian aesthetic categories reveals its overarching subtle psychologism that embraces a wide gamut of emotional experiences, ranging from ascetic austerity and isolation from the nonsensical external world to celebration of passionate and hedonistic pleasures of life.
Accepted: 10/23/2020
Keywords: Hindu traditional aesthetics, beauty, art, mythology, religion, metaphysics
Pages: 71-98
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