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Making a Canon: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Sri Lanka, and the Place of Buddhist Art
By: Janice Leoshko
Making a Canon, Janice Leoshko
 
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Author: Janice Leoshko
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780226836065
Publication Date: 2024


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An early interpreter of Buddhist art to the West, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy laid the foundation of what would become the South Asian visual canon, particularly through his efforts to understand how Buddhist art emerged and developed. In Making a Canon, Janice Leoshko examines how Coomaraswamy's experience as the director of a mineralogical survey in Sri Lanka shaped his understanding of South Asian art and religion. Along the way, she reveals how Coomaraswamy's distinctive repetition of Sri Lankan visual images in his work influenced the direction of South Asia's canon formation and left a lasting impression on our understanding of Buddhist art.

Making a Canon: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Sri Lanka, and the Place of Buddhist Art; Janice Leoshko; University of Chicago Press; Hardcover; 304 pages; $50.00

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