Bibliographical References^*

Marco Pallis, Prologue: “A Fateful Meeting of Minds: A. K. Coomaraswamy and R. Guénon”: Dilip, Vol. V, No. 1 (n.d.); and Studies in Comparative Religion, Vol. 12, Nos. 3, 4 (1978).

1. “A Figure of Speech or a Figure of Thought?”: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought: Collected Essays on the Traditional or “Normal” View of Art (London: Luzac, 1946); Coomaraswamy 1: Selected Papers, Traditional Art and Symbolism, edited by Roger Lipsey (Princeton: Bollingen Series, Princeton University, 1977); and The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning, edited by Rama P. Coomaraswamy (Princeton: Bollingen Series, Princeton University, 1997).
2. “The Bugbear of Literacy”: Asia Magazine, New York (February 1944); Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Am I My Brother’s Keeper? (New York: John Day, 1947; London: Dennis Dobson, 1947); and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Bugbear of Literacy (London: Perennial Books, 1979).
3. “On the Pertinence of Philosophy”: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, What is Civilization? And Other Essays (Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1989).
4. “Eastern Wisdom and Western Knowledge”: Isis, Vol. XXIV, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1943); Am I My Brother’s Keeper?; and The Bugbear of Literacy.
5. “Beauty and Truth”: Art Bulletin, Vol. XX, New York (1938); Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Why Exhibit Works of Art? (London: Luzac, 1943); and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art (New York: Dover, 1956).
6. “The Interpretation of Symbols”: What is Civilization? And Other Essays.
7. “Why Exhibit Works of Art?”: Journal of Aesthetics, New York, Fall Issue (1941); Why Exhibit Works of Art?; and Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art. Originally an address delivered before the American Association of Museums at Columbus, Ohio, and Newport, R.I., in May and October, 1941.
8. “The Christian and Oriental, or True, Philosophy of Art”: Why Exhibit Works of Art?; and Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art. Originally a lecture delivered at the Walter Vincent Smith Art Gallery, and at Boston College, 1939, and printed as a John Stevens Pamphlet, Newport, 1939.
9. “Is Art a Superstition, or a Way of Life?”: Why Exhibit Works of Art?; Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art; and as “Art, Man and Manufacture,” in Our Emergent Civilization, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1947). Originally a lecture given at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April, 1937, and at Harvard University (Summer School), July, 1937. Printed in the American Review, Summer Number (1937), and as a John Stevens Pamphlet, Newport, 1937. “Postscript: Note on a Review by Richard Florsheim of ‘Is Art a Superstition, or a Way of Life?’”: Art Bulletin, Vol. XX, New York (1937); Why Exhibit Works of Art?; and Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art.
10. “The Nature of Medieval Art”: Arts of the Middle Ages, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1940); Why Exhibit Works of Art?; and Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art.
11. “Ars sine scientia nihil”: The Catholic Art Quarterly, Vol. VI (1943); Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought; and Coomaraswamy 1: Selected Papers.
12. “Imitation, Expression, and Participation”: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. III (1945); Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought; Coomaraswamy 1: Selected Papers; and The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning.
13. “Samvega: ‘Aesthetic Shock’”: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. VII (1943); Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought; and Coomaraswamy 1: Selected Papers.
14. “What is Civilization?”: What is Civilization? And Other Essays.
15. “The Nature of ‘Folklore’ and ‘Popular Art’”: Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (July-October 1936); Indian Art and Letters, London (1937); Why Exhibit Works of Art?; and Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art.
16. “Primitive Mentality”: Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society, Vol. XX (1940); Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought; and Coomaraswamy 1: Selected Papers. Originally published in French in Études traditionelles, Vol. XLVI (1939).
17. “The Coming to Birth of the Spirit”: What is Civilization? And Other Essays.
18. “Quod factum est in ipso vita erat”: What is Civilization? And Other Essays.
19. “The Hindu Tradition: The Myth”: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Hinduism and Buddhism (New York: Philosophical Library, 1943; New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1975; Bloomington: World Wisdom, forthcoming, 2005).
20. “The Hindu Tradition: Theology and Autology”: Hinduism and Buddhism.

Footnote

• * Editor’s Note: the interested reader is referred to the complete bibliographical listing of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy’s works in James Crouch, A Bibliography of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2002).