A Vision of Nature: Traces of the Original World

A Vision of Nature: Traces of the Original World
ISBN-10
0873384830
ISBN-13
9780873384834
Category
Nature
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Author
Michael Tobias

Description

Tobias examines the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean, the ascetics of Sinai and Tibet, and the Pure Land Buddhists. He introduces the reader to the Jains of India, whose lifestyle is one of the most ecologically balanced in all of human history. In profiling various artists of 19th-century Europe and America, Tobias discovers incisive continuities among such luminaries as British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Austrian impressionist Emilie Mediz-Pelikan, and American intimist painters Ralph Blakelock and George Inness.

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