Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), an English-edu-cated Indian intellectual who spent the last half of his life in the United States. "The Coomaraswamian museum would showcase objects not as exemplars of eternal aesthetic values but as manifestations of a particular civi- lization's particular philosophical worldview or religious sensibility. It would, in short, resem- ble a museum of anthropology or comparative religion." Truth, not sensation, is the proper goal of art, after all, and...