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ACHIEVE ECSTASY
ANCIENT SEXUALITY
ANCIENT TEXT
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CLASSIC TEXT
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EXPRESSION OF BEAUTY
EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION
ILLUSTRATE POSTURES
INDIAN ART
INDIAN TEXT
KAMA SUTRA GUIDE
KAMA SUTRA TEXT
LANCE DANE COLLECTION
MUSEUM ARTWORK
SENSUAL ART
SENSUAL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
SENSUOUS EXPERIENCE
SEXUAL ART
SEXUAL POSTURES
SEXUAL TEACHINGS
WORLD
Product details
- ISBN 9780892811380
- Weight: 925g
- Dimensions: 165 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 07 Oct 2003
- Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The erotic sentiments described in the Hindu love classic the Kama Sutraconstitute the most famous work on sex ever created. Written almost 2,000 years ago, the Kama Sutra deals with all aspects of sexual life, including the principles and techniques of sexual pleasure and how to best achieve ecstatic expression of life’s beauty. In this complete and illustrated guide Lance Dane accompanies the Kama Sutratext with 269 illustrations and great works of art that encompass coins, palm leaf manuscripts, sculptures, ancient toys, jewelry, architecture, ivory combs, birch bark, cloth, paintings, frescoes, and scrolls. Gathered from museums and private collections around the world—as well as the author’s own collection of over 300,000 photographs—these rare images clearly illustrate all 64 sexual positions and the erotic instructions set forth in the Kama Sutra. The result is a dazzling and sensuous reading experience through which the teachings of the Kama Sutraspring to life.
Lance Dane (1923–2012) was a writer, photographer, renowned scholar, and the founder of the Sanskriti Museum of Every Day Art in Delhi. He dedicated over five decades of his life to researching and archiving all aspects of the Kama Sutra and other pre-Vedic and Vedic classical erotica. His private collections of over 9,000 books on Indian art and architecture and his 300,000 archival photographs are housed in the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts in New Delhi. He lived in India for almost 6 decades.
