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March 24, 2004
James S. Crouch A Bibliography of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Janpath, New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in association with Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2002. 430 pp.; 1 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (8173044287)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2004.24

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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 volumes of Coomaraswamy’s Selected Papers and a biography in the Bollingen Series (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977) that include a list of Coomaraswamy’s publications compiled by his third wife, Doña Luisa Coomaraswamy. S. Durai Raja Singam privately published his Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy: a bibliographical record being a comprehensive bibliography of all his publications from 1895 to 1981 (2 vols.; Kuala Lumpur, 1981, 1984). Coomaraswamy’s son, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, also edited a thorough chronological list of his work, entitled Ananda K. Coomaraswamy: Bibliography/Index (Tweedmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed: Prologos Books, 1988), with indispensable sections on translations, book reviews, and surviving unpublished works. James S. Crouch, who assisted in the latter two projects, has now produced an annotated, updated, and exhaustive bibliographic volume of Coomaraswamy’s printed works for the Indira...