A.K. COOMARA SWAMY'S CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS ART EDUCATION

 

A.K. COOMARA SWAMY'S CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS ART EDUCATION 

Ananda Kentish Muthu Coomaraswamy, (22 August 1877 − 9 September 1947) was a Ceylonese Tamil metaphysician, pioneering historian and philosopher of Indian art who was an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West.

CONTRIBUTION

1.     He was largely responsible for introducing ancient Indian art to the West.

2.     Coomaraswamy made important contributions to the philosophy of art, literature, and religion.

 

3.     He made pioneering discoveries in the history of Indian art, particularly some distinctions between Rajput and Moghul paintings, and published his book Rajput Painting.

4.     He became one of the founders of the Traditionalist School.

5.      His books and essays on art and culture, symbolism and metaphysics, scripture, folklore and myth, and still other topics, offer a remarkable education to readers.

 

Traditional art

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1. Elements of Buddhist Iconography, Harvard University Press, 1935.
2. Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought? The Traditional View of Art, (World Wisdom 2007)
3. Introduction to Indian Art, (Kessinger Publishing, 2007)
4. Buddhist Art, (Kessinger Publishing, 2005)
5. Guardians of the Sundoor: Late Iconographic Essays, (Fons Vitae, 2004)
6. History of Indian and Indonesian Art, (Kessinger Publishing, 2003)
7. Teaching of Drawing in Ceylon] (1906, Colombo Apothecaries)
8. "The Indian craftsman" (1909, Probsthain: London)
9. The mirror of gesture: being the Abhinaya darpaṇa of Nandikeśvara (with Duggirāla Gōpālakr̥ṣṇa) (1917, Harvard University Press; 1997, South Asia Books,)
10. Indian music (1917, G. Schirmer; 2006, Kessinger Publishing,
11. A catalog of sculptures by John Mowbray-Clarke: shown at the Kevorkian Galleries, New York, from May the seventh to June the seventh, 1919. (1919, New York: Kevorkian Galleries, co-authored with Mowbray-Clarke, John, H. Kevorkian, and Amy Murray)
12. Rajput Painting, (B.R. Publishing Corp., 2003)
13. Early Indian Architecture: Cities and City-Gates, (South Asia Books, 2002) I
14. The Origin of the Buddha Image, (Munshirm Manoharlal Pub Pvt Ltd, 2001)
15. The Door in the Sky, (Princeton University Press, 1997)
16. The Transformation of Nature in Art, (Sterling Pub Private Ltd, 1996)
17. Bronzes from Ceylon, chiefly in the Colombo Museum, (Dept. of Govt. Print, 1978)
18. Early Indian Architecture: Palaces, (Munshiram Manoharlal, 1975)
19. The arts & crafts of India & Ceylon, (Farrar, Straus, 1964)
20. Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art, (Dover Publications, 1956)
21. Archaic Indian Terracottas, (Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1928)