Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought

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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy’s Figures of Speech and Figures of Thought is a collection of seventeen essays dealing with a specific ‘aspect or application of the traditional theory of art’. Each essay takes up for discussion such topics as rhetoric, aesthetics, medieval theories, role of ornament in art, icons and spectator, reason and intuition, imitation Buddhist art, Indian Painting, pictorial relief, primitive art, etc. Every chapter is provided with references and exhaustive notes. The compact and concise argument, valuable notes and references and judicious choice of subjects make this a handy reference as well as text book on theory of art. All those connected with art shall find this book a priceless one to their collection.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anand K. Coomaraswamy

Anand Kentish Coomaraswamy, the greatest among the Indian Art-historians, was born in Colombo on August 22,1877. After graduating from the University of London, he became the Director of the Mineralogical Survey of Ceylon. Between 1906 and 1917, when he joined as the Curator of Indian Art in the Boston Museum he was busy lecturing on Indian Art and formed societies for the study of Indian Art. In 1938, he became the Chairman of National Committee for India's Freedom. His contributions on Indian philosophy, religion, art and iconography, painting and literature are of the greatest importance as were his contributions on music, science and Islamic art. He died on September 9, 1947.