The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

By: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Rama Poonambulam Coomaraswamy (Editor)

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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 this collection, he turned his attention to metaphysics, tradition and sacred art. However, unlike many who write about traditional cultures, he was a radical and controversial critic of modern 'civilisation'. This volume, edited by his son, provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the work of this important 20th century philosopher and art historian. These selections of Coomaraswamy's vast body of writing offer the new reader a clear and definitive point of entry into the mind of this great and early spokesman for the Perennial Philosophy.

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List of Color and Black-and-White Illustrations	p. vi
List of Abbreviations	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Prologue: A Fateful Meeting of Minds: A. K. Coomaraswamy and R. Guenon	p. 7
A Figure of Speech or a Figure of Thought?	p. 21
The Bugbear of Literacy	p. 53
On the Pertinence of Philosophy	p. 67
Eastern Wisdom and Western Knowledge	p. 87
Beauty and Truth	p. 97
The Interpretation of Symbols	p. 103
Why Exhibit Works of Art?	p. 111
The Christian and Oriental, or True, Philosophy of Art	p. 123
Is Art a Superstition, or a Way of Life?	p. 153
The Nature of Medieval Art	p. 173
Ars sine scientia nihil	p. 177
Imitation, Expression, and Participation	p. 181
Samvega: "Aesthetic Shock"	p. 193
What is Civilization?	p. 201
The Nature of "Folklore" and "Popular Art"	p. 213
Primitive Mentality	p. 225
The Coming to Birth of the Spirit	p. 247
Quod factum est in ipso vita erat	p. 261
The Hindu Tradition: The Myth	p. 267
The Hindu Tradition: Theology and Autology	p. 275
Glossary of Foreign Terms and Phrases	p. 291
Bibliographical References	p. 295
Biographical Notes	p. 299
Index	p. 301
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