Coomaraswamy: His Life and Work

A biography of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, the pioneering interpreter of Indian art, philosophy, and mythology

“A rounded, gently critical, always interesting portrait of this unique personality.”—Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877–1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural meeting of East and West in the twentieth century. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians and philosophers, an art historian convinced ...