About this title: Coomaraswamy attempts to explain the theory behind medieval European and Asian art in India. The first principle of his theory is that art does not exist for its own sake; it exists as a mean to some religious conditions or experience.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good Plus. Size: 8vo-7¾"-9¾"; G++. A tight copy of the book, with internal markings on very few of the pages. Shows some light shelfwear and soiling. A great reading copy. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications, New York
Date Published: 1956
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 245 pp., biblio.; 21 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's name/flyleaf, otherwise tight & clean. Browning. Another copy available. "Theories of art in Indian, Chinese, and European medieval art; iconography, ideal representation, perspective and space relations. "-Publisher. read more
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. 1934. Paperback. Used, good. Small tears/creases on spine/cover. Cover has some rubbing. read more
Description: NY: Dover Publications, (1956). 245+ ad pp. Softcover. 8vo. Red illustrative, plastic coated paper wrappers. Extremities lightly bumped and rubbed. Pressure points starting to wear, corners more so. Wraps very lightly surface scuffed, plastic coating lightly chipped and torn. Edges and pages lightly yellowed with faint, minimal scattered foxing and staining extending only fly leaves. Interior still clean and tight. Very good-/No jacket issued. read more
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. Hardcover. Used, good. Sticker on cover. Modest sunfade/discoloration on spine/cover. Cover has some rubbing. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York, Dover Publications, nd
Description: Later Printing. Theories of art in Indian, Chinese and European medieval art; iconography, ideal representation, perspective and space relations. 8vo. "B" PB. read more
Binding: Hardcover.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1935
Description: Condition is Very Good+ in a Very Good+ Dustjacket. Previous owner's name to front end paper. Chips to jacket edges, and a tear along front flap hinge. read more
Edition: Second edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1935
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. 246 pp. Black cloth with paper spine label, blind rules to upper board, gilt top edge; glossary and bibliography. Very light general wear with a bit of rubbing and bumping to spine ends and corners. Owner's details in ink and some light pencil marks (easily erased). Otherwise, a sound VG+ copy. No dustjacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1934
Description: G/NONE. Light edgewear to extremities, light surfacewear to boards, circular dampstain to front board, light spinal edgewear, soiling to spine slightly affecting front board, small tears to top spine, spine title label toned, binding shaken, sparse marginalia and notations, pages lightly toned; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 245 pages; Non-western art ars black, brown label/black vartcat histcat philcat. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1934
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Harvard Edition. Moderate soiling and mild edgewear to dj w/ a short closed tear at top rear. Boards show only light wear w/ light bump at front bottom corner. Very light foxing at early and late pages of text. read more
Description: New Delhi. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. Sterling Publishers Private Limited. 1995. 189p. Hb. lacks d/w. 21/2007 10/2008. read more
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