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Over the Wall of Partition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2024

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Blackfriars , Volume 29 , Issue 339 , June 1948 , pp. 257 - 263
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Copyright © 1948 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Art and Thought. A volume in honour of the late Dr Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Edited by K. Bharatha Iyer (Imzac; £3.3.0).

2 Time and Eternity, by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (Artibus Asiae Publishers, Switzerland; 84.80 or 20 S. frs.).’

3 Published last year by Allen and Unwin; 10s. net.

4 Edited by Edward J. Jurgi (Princeton and Cumberlege; 21s.).

5 Badhakrishnan himself honours Dr Cooinaraswamy with an article in Art and Thouqht. He however puts forward the same fundamental claims as in his book.

6 Meyer Schapiro writes ‘On the Aesthetic Attitude in Romanesque Art’, and claims that medieval churches disclose a taste for ornament which can hardly be classed as ‘functional’. It would be interesting to know what Coomaraswamy made of this contribution. He, with Gill, upheld the functionalism idea, but it was far from being a purely utilitarian concept and embraced all ‘rational’ ornament.