Selected Letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Selected Letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Author: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13:

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Coomaraswamy was perhaps the greatest philosopher-theologian of recent times to have emerged from the East. This ambitious work is the first to present a selection of Coomaraswamy's letters to mystics, theologians, art critics, painters, philosophers, writers, and religious thinkers and scholars. No other source reveals the author's erudition, as well as facets of his life and thought, as completely and delightfully as this collection.


The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Author: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy

Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780941532464

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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.


Selected Letters

Selected Letters

Author: Charles Olson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2001-02-21

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 0520918002

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For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Olson's finest works, including Projective Verse and the Maximus Poems, were formulated as letters. Olson's letters are important to an understanding of his definition of the postmodern, and through the play of mind exhibited here we recognize him as one of the vital thinkers of the twentieth century. In this volume, edited and annotated by Ralph Maud, we see Olson at the height of his powers and also at his most human. Nearly 200 letters, selected from a known 3,000, demonstrate the wide range of Olson's interests and the depth of his concern for the future. Maud includes letters to friends and loved ones, job and grant applications, letters of recommendation, and Black Mountain College business letters, as well as correspondence illuminating Olson's poetics. As we read through the letters, which span the years from 1931, when Olson was an undergraduate, to his death in 1970, a fascinating portrait of this complex poet and thinker emerges.


The Wisdom of Ananda Coomaraswamy

The Wisdom of Ananda Coomaraswamy

Author: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy

Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1935493957

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Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was one of the most famous scholars of Indian art, culture, and religion. He served for many years as the Keeper of Indian and Islamic Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, establishing one of the most impressive collections of oriental artifacts in the world. This anthology contains thematically arranged excerpts from his many writings, letters, and speeches, making it a uniquely accessible collection of his wisdom and insight. It is richly illustrated with over 140 black-and-white historical photographs and paintings.


The Essential Frithjof Schuon

The Essential Frithjof Schuon

Author: Frithjof Schuon

Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780941532921

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Collects the best essays by the religious philosopher on a variety of spiritual subjects.


Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore

Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore

Author: Rabindranath Tagore

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-06-26

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 9780521590181

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A selection of some 350 letters spanning Nobel prize-winning writer Rabindranath Tagore's entire life - the first to be available to English readers.


Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Author: Eugene Benson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 1950

ISBN-13: 1134468482

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" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.


Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art

Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art

Author: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2017-01-12

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1787208486

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The late Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, curator of Indian art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, uniquely combined art historian, philosopher, orientalist, linguist, and expositor in his person. His knowledge of the arts and handcrafts of the Orient was unexcelled and his numerous monographs on Oriental art either established or revolutionized entire fields. He was also a great Orientalist, with an almost unmatched understanding of traditional culture. He covered the philosophic and religious experience of the entire premodern world, east and west, and for him primitive, medieval European, and classical Indian experiences of truth and art were only different dialects in a common language. Finally, Coomaraswamy was a provocative writer, whose erudition was expressed in a delightful, aphoristic style. The nine essays in this book are among his most stimulating. They discuss such matters as the true function of aesthetics in art, the importance of symbolism, and the importance of intellectual and philosophical background to the artist; they analyze the role of traditional culture in enriching art; they demonstrate that abstract art and primitive art, despite superficial resemblances, are completely divergent; and they deal with the common philosophy which pervades all great art, the nature of medieval art, folklore and modern art, the beauty inherent in mathematics, and the union of traditional symbolism and individual portraiture in premodern cultures.