Coomaraswamy's contribution to the history of architecture in India was limited but profound. In particular, his probing analysis of texts and sculpted reliefs in order to reconstruct the extraordinary architecture of early India was an act of great scholarship. This volume for the first time brings together four major essays along with Coomaraswamy's analysis of "Indian Architectural Terms." An introductory essay by Michael W. Meister on "The Language and Process of Early Indian Architecture" connects Coomaraswamy's foundational essays with more recent scholarship on the origination of India's vast tradition of temple architecture. An afterword by Joseph Rykwert on "Adam's House and Hermit Huts" presents the view of a major Western architectural historian.

Essays in Early Indian Architecture

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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Michael W. Meister

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

Coomaraswamy attempts to explain the theory behind medieval European and Asian art in India. The first principle of his theory is that art does not exist for its own sake; it exists as a mean to some religious conditions or experience.

Transformation of Nature in Art

Arts & Photography

Music

Dover Pubns

The Dance of Siva; Fourteen Indian Essays

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Trieste Publishing

The description for this book, Coomaraswamy, Volume 2: Selected Papers: Metaphysics, will be forthcoming.

Coomaraswamy, Volume 2: Selected Papers: Metaphysics (Coomaraswamy, 1)

Roger Lipsey

Princeton University Press

Essays examine the spiritual dimension of art, the treatment of religious themes by artists, and the relationship between art and religious traditions

Art, Creativity, and the Sacred: An Anthology in Religion and Art

Doug Adams

David Altshuler

Charles Scribner III

Leo Steinberg

Linda Altshuler

Crossroad Publishing Co.

What is civilisation?, and other essays

Religion & Spirituality

Golgonooza Press

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.

The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (Perennial Philosophy Series)

Quotations

World Wisdom

This new edition of Coomaraswamy's classic book, considered his most important work on the philosophy of art, includes all of the revisions Coomaraswamy had wanted to add to the original edition.

Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought?: The Traditional View of Art, Revised Edition with Previously Author's Unpublished Notes (Perennial Philosophy)

History & Criticism

Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art

Manohar Publishers & Distributors

The Mirror of Gesture: Being the Abhinaya Darpana of Nandikesvara

Gopala Kristnayya Duggirala (Trans.)

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