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March 24, 2004
James S. Crouch A Bibliography of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy New Delhi: Manohar Publishers and Distributors in association with Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2002. 444 pp.; 1 b/w ills. Cloth $68.95 (8173044287)
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Richard Ettinghausen once wrote of the Indian art historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877–1947): “[t]here are few scholars … whose publications cover a wider range …[:] philosophy, metaphysics, religion, iconography, Indian literature and arts, Islamic art, medieval art, music, geology, and, especially, the place of art in society” (Ars Islamica 9 (1942): 125). With the help of Coomaraswamy himself, Helen Ladd compiled a partial bibliography of his work in that same issue. Roger Lipsey published two...