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The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (Perennial Philosophy Series)
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
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Paperback. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy was engaged in the world not only as a scholarly expositor of traditional culture and philosophy, but also as a radical critic of contemporary life. Editor(s): Coomaraswamy, Rama Poonambulam. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16pp colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AGR; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
Ananda K Coomaraswamy grew up in late Victorian England and was there in the splendid pre-war days of the arts and crafts idealists, Blakean dreamers and flourishing literary movements. As a young man, Coomaraswamy was a pioneer and authority in the field of Indian art, a spokesman for Indian nationalism and a careful, but popular writer on Hinduism and Buddhism. During the First World War, he went to America and, as curator of Asiatic Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, built the first large collection of Indian art in America. In his later writings, which are represented in ... Read more
Ananda K Coomaraswamy grew up in late Victorian England and was there in the splendid pre-war days of the arts and crafts idealists, Blakean dreamers and flourishing literary movements. As a young man, Coomaraswamy was a pioneer and authority in the field of Indian art, a spokesman for Indian nationalism and a careful, but popular writer on Hinduism and Buddhism. During the First World War, he went to America and, as curator of Asiatic Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, built the first large collection of Indian art in America. In his later writings, which are represented in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
World Wisdom
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780941532464
SKU
V9780941532464
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About Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Coomaraswamy dealt with grand ideas and eternal realities. He used many interesting examples of particular works of art, cultural practices or ideas of great thinkers, but these examples were always chosen in order to point out eternal truths that apply to all people in all times and places. Thus, for readers who are interested in the realities that underlie the ... Read more
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