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Art & Architecture

Selected Papers of Coomaraswamy, Volume 1: Traditional Art and Symbolism

    Edited by
  • Roger Lipsey

A collection of important essays by a pioneering interpreter of Indian art, philosophy, and mythology

鈥淏rilliant.鈥濃�擩oseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces

鈥淰aried, imaginative, incredibly learned. . . . Fascinating.鈥濃�擩ohn Kenneth Galbraith, New York Times Book Review





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Published:
Feb 17, 2026
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624
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6.13 x 9.25 in.
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23 b/w illus.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877鈥�1947) was a pioneer in the study of Indian art, philosophy, and mythology鈥攁nd in the cultural meeting of East and West. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians and philosophers, an art historian convinced that the ultimate value of art transcends history, and a social thinker influenced by William Morris, Coomaraswamy was a unique figure whose works provide virtually a complete education in themselves. Finding a universal tradition in past cultures ranging from the Hellenic and Christian to the Indian, Islamic, and Chinese, he presented his ideas in numerous essays. This volume includes a selection of his essays on art and symbolism that were written in the 1930s and 1940s, when he was at the height of his powers.