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Was Ananda Coomaraswamy really that important in bringing eastern literature to the west?

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>>17154694
>Coomar

>> No.17154718

He had more influence in art. You can understand Coomaraswamy if you understand the influence of the magazine The New Age and its writer. Writers like William Morris and John Ruskin were its precursors.

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>Coomaraswamy divorced his second wife after they arrived in America.[11] He married the American artist Stella Bloch, 20 years his junior, in November 1922

>> No.17154805

More important than Gaynon.

>> No.17156089

>>17154694
Almost as important as Moe Lester and Master Béter