Books
Collected Works of Ananda K Coomaraswamy Series
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANANDA KENTISH COOMARASWAMY
ISBN : 81-7304-428-7Edited By :James S. Crouch
(2002, 430pp.)
Rs.1,000.00The volume documents the remarkably productive career of one of the great minds of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accurate bibliography is the result of more than twenty years of devoted research and scholarship. Its publication is an event of the first importance for all scholars of Indian art and religion…Read More
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ESSAYS OF JAINA ART
ISBN : 81-7304-534-8Edited By :RICHARD J. COHEN
(2003, 110pp)
Rs.1,450.00This volume deals with Coomaraswamy’s contribution to the study of Jaina art.
His writings on Jaina art span the entire period of his active working life as an art historian. He published his first article on the subject in 1914 and ended with a book review in 1943, four years before his death…Read More
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ESSAYS ON MUSIC
ISBN : 81-7304-611-5Edited By :PREM LATA SHARMA
(2010, 153, Preface, Introduction)
Rs.500.00These essays were published in a few books, journals, etc., mostly in the early years of the twentieth century. Coomaraswamy held that music in countless ways had been bound up with the Indian national culture, for it was the most universal expression of emotion-religious, amorous or martial… Read More
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THE TRUE SCHOLAR
ISBN :Edited By :Roger Lipsey
(2013, 47 pp.)
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy(1877-1947) remains a unique and inspring scholar and author across the many fields of study he made his own. One of the foremost founders of Indian art history, he was the first to distinguish between Rajput and Moghul painting, and built a…Read More
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THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE IN MEDIEVAL INDIA
ISBN : 13 : 978-93-81406-41-0Edited By :Adam Hardy
(2015, xiv+293pp.,inÎ, Bib., Illus. col., maps and line drawings)
Rs.2,300.00This book is about Vastuvidya or Architectural theory, the creation of temples, and the role of drawing as an indispensible bridge between the two. It focuses on two works attributed to Bhoja, the legendary Paramara ruler of Malwa in the first half of the eleventh century…Read More
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TIME AND ETERNITY
ISBN : 81-85503-00-1
(1990, viii+107 pp. bib., ref., index)
Rs.110.00Man’s awareness of Time has been articulated in ancient and modern civilizations through cosmologies, metaphysics, philosophy, religion, theology and the arts….Read More
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ART, AESTHETICS AND PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 978-81-246-0764-0Edited By :S.G.KULKARNI & KAVITA CHAUHAN
(2015,xxvi+174 pp.)
Rs.420.00The savants of the twentieth century have excavated the past to discerningly reveal the present. Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, among other, interpreted Indian aesthetics, civilization, culture and philosophy unearthing the Indian wisdom…Read More
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ELEMENTS OF BUDDHIST ICONOGRAPHY
ISBN : 81-7304-432-5Edited By :KRISHNA DEVA
(2008, 146pp.)
Rs.950.00The Elements of Buddhist iconography was first published by the Harvard University Press in 1935. This new edition, Read More
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ESSAYS IN ARCHITECTURAL THEORY
ISBN : 0-19-563805-0Edited By :Michael W.Meister
(1995 xxiii+122 pp. figs, notes, appen., indexes)
Rs.650.00This volume presents the essays that best represent Coomaraswamy’s rapidly developing thinking on the hermeneutics of architecture-its “why” not ‘how”. These can best be understood in the order in which they were written…Read More
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ESSAYS IN EARLY INDIAN ARCHITECTURE
ISBN : 019-563094-7Edited By :Michael W.Meister
(1995, xxviii+151 pp.)
Rs.400.00Three of Coomaraswamy’s essays which were published in a journal Eastern Art, published by the Fledgling College Art Association and the fourth essay on “Huts and Related Temple Types” survived only in manuscripts have made access to Coomaraswamy’s accomplishments in the area difficult for most students and scholars…Read More