2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Sri Lankan Tamil metaphysician and art historian who wrote The Dance of Shiva, The Transformation of Nature in Art, and Am I My Brother's Keeper — serving as the first scholar to make Indian and Islamic art accessible to the Western world and developing a metaphysical interpretation of art as the expression of universal principles.
Italian-American fraudster who defrauded investors in Boston in 1919–1920 by promising 50% returns in 90 days through international postal reply coupon arbitrage — which was impossible at scale — creating the scheme that now bears his name.