"Hammarskjold is a man for "this" time."
--from Chapter 1Roger Lipsey has produced a comprehensive, definitive, and timely biography of Dag Hammarskjold, the second United Nations secretary, a man who, after his mysterious death, was described by U.S. president John F. Kennedy as the "greatest st[...]
In 1911, modernist painter Wassily Kandinsky published "Concerning the Spiritual in Art, a treatise on the meaning of modern art and a challenge to his contemporaries to free their work from traditional bonds. Eight decades later, the distinguished scholar Roger Lipsey examined the response to Kandi[...]
"Figures Of Speech Or Figures Of Thought?" is perhaps Ananda K. Coomaraswamy's most important work on the philosophy of art. Here he is concerned primarily with traditional works of art and the intimate relationship between style, technique and meaning. These essays move easily between the boundarie[...]