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The Door in the Sky : Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning

By Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0691017476, 9780691017471
ASIN
B08GXZ3F7D
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20414076 bytes)
Series
Mythos
Pages
296\298
Topic
Religion
Time added
2023-07-25 21:45:47

Description

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation 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 collated his ideas and symbols of ancient wisdom into the sometimes complex, always rewarding pattern of essays. The Door in the Sky is a collection of the author's writings on myth drawn from his Metaphysics and Traditional Art and Symbolism, both originally published in Bollingen Series. These essays were written while Coomaraswamy was curator in the department of Asiatic Art of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where he built the first large collection of Indian art in the United States.

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