“ananda k coomaraswamy”

Second in the series of the Collected Works of A.K. Coomaraswamy in the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Art's publication program, the twenty essays comprising this volume, some newly published here, ask fundamental questions in the piercing and incisive Coomaraswamy style.... More

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) pioneered one form of cultural studies in India. His analysis of Indian civilization extended to Indian ideas and theories of architecture. This volume in the Collected Works presents the essays that best represent his thought on the hermeneutics of Indian architec... More

An Address To The Student's Religious Association, Ann Arbor, January 1946. Indian Culture And English Influence. An Address To Indian Students And Their Friends.... More

This volume discusses the history of Indian and Indonesian art, written by the Keeper of Indian and Muhammadan art in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. It is divided into six parts on the following: pre- Maurya; Maurya, Sunga, early Andbra and Scytho-Parthian (Ksatrapa); Kusana, late... More

The aim of this book is to set forth as simply as possible the gospel of Buddhism according to the Buddhist scriptures, and to consider the Buddhist systems in relation, on the one hand, to the Brahmanical systems in which they originate, and, on the other hand, to those systems of Christian mystici... More

'Today, if India takes her due rank as first-class artistic power, it is in large measure owing to Coomaraswamy'-so said the distinguished British artist Sir William Rothenstein of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, the celebrated author of this work. To know the magnitude and quality of the work done by ... More