Seven Little-Known Birds of the Inner Eye
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On Art (Klee), 124
optical: concepts, 33, 38-39, 71, 136; illusions, 28, 32-34, 36-38, 65; vision, 26-27, 29, 37, 47-48, 50, 57, 95
optical vision, bird of. See dickeybird
Pacioli, Luca, 99
papyrus: F. bers, 90; Edwin Smith, 90
Paradiso (Dante), 53-54
Parkes, C. Murray, 90
Patanjali, 92
Pedagogical Sketch Book (Klee), 46, 124
Penfield, Wilder, 59
perception, 15, 17-23, 28, 30-31, 40, 41, 43, 48, 57, 64, 79-80, 93, 95, 102, 105, 111, 116, 118, 120-21, 132, 141-44; psychology of, 13, 15; psychophysical aspects of, 18-21, 23, 32, 100, 105-6, 108, 111, 143
Pereira, Irene Rice, 34, 95
Phaedrus (Plato), 118
phoenix bird of paradise. Sec bird of the imagination
photons, 30, 38, 42
Picasso, Pablo, 20, 59, 110, 134-36, 144
Plato, 98, 118
Pointillism. See neo-Impressonism
Pollock, Jackson, 59
Port-en-Bessin, Entrance to the Harbour (Seurat), 28
prana (energy), 93
Principles of Composition in Hindu Sculpture (Boner), 95
Protagoras, 58
psychic force, centres of. See chakras
Ptolemy, 90
purusha-prakriti (psycho-physical interactions), 56, 96-97
question-mark bird. See thalamus bird
Ragmala paintings, 38, 42; of Todi Ragini, 38
Rajasthani peasant woman, 141
Raman, C. V., 15, 29, 38-40, 42
rasa (flavour), 24, 57, 112, 116
rasika (critic), 18-19, 21-22, 56, 65, 119-21, 140, 142
Ray, Nihar Ranijan, 15
Read, Herbert, 14, 15, 131, 136
Reddy, Krishna, 78
Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn, 13, 130
Renaissance perspective, 47
retina. See eye
rhythm bird. See bird of rhythm
rhythms, 18-19, 24, 31, 52, 55, 57, 65, 85, 88, 111; experience of, 51, 95, 136; in sculpture, 42-43; source of, 22, 42, 77, 80
Rig Veda, 91
Rothenstein, William, 14
Russell, Bertrand, 13, 21, 56
sadanga (six limbs of painting), 46
Sahitya Darpana (Vishwanatha), 117
Samkhya Darshana (school of thought), 56
Sargent, John Singer, 138
Schroedinger, Erwin, 137
Scott, Geoffrey, 99
Self-Portrait (Rembrandt), 13, 130-31
serpent power. See kundalini
sesnago (eternal serpent), 97
Seurat, Georges, 28
Shakespeare, William, 23, 116
skankh (conch shell), 73
shapes and forms, 18, 43-44, 47, 50, 54, 96-99, 116
shilpashastras (encyclopedias of' architecture), 46, 100; Manasara, 46
Shiva, 42, 97, 100
Sickert, Walter, 136
Sistine Chapel, painting of (by Michelangelo), 144
Souza, Francis Newton, 86
space, 41-42, 59, 64-65, 72, 95, 100, 122, 129-30, 132, 138-39, 142, 144; in architecture, 37, 46; optical concepts of, 34, 116, 125; perception related to, 32, 34, 38, 125; and time relations, 36, 47, 65, 144
Spenser, Edmund, 71, 72
stream of consciousness, 52, 53, 93
subconscious, 20, 31-32, 34, 42, 80, 84, 94, 100, 118, 120
tabla (percussion instrument), 42
Tagore, Rahindranath, 91
Tantric philosphy, 15, 42, 63, 67, 73, 77. See also Hindu, philosophy; yoga philosophy
temple architecture, 36-37, 44; Egyptian, 90; garbha griba (inner sanctum), 37; Greek, 90; Indian, 36; sikhara, 44, 96
thalamus, 22, 31, 67, 69-73, 75, 87, 111, 118; functions of, 69-70, 72-73, 75
thalamus bird, 22, 57, 69-70, 73, 75, 77, 87, 118
"third eye," 20, 120-21, 125, 135, 142
Threading light (Tobey), 138-39
Tobey, Mark, 138-39
Topolski, Feliks, 59
unconscious, 42, 48, 50, 56, 63, 64, 67, 77, 80, 82, 86, 94, 99, 104, 132, 145
vagal centre, 105, 110, 111
vagus nerve, 78, 80, 82, 85, 109, 118. See also chakras; nerves
vasanas (energies released by the body-soul), 20-22, 30, 32, 42, 44, 48, 54, 57, 80, 87, 102, 111, 120, 142
Vatsyayana, 44
Vedanta philosophy, 132, 145
Vishnu, 43, 98
Vishwanatha, 117
Wordsworth, William, 64
yoga philosophy, 32, 64, 70-71, 78, 80, 85, 92, 109-10
yogic exercises, 77, 80, 85, 92-93, 110. See also breathing, exercises