Artist in Edo
Studies in the History of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300214673,
Yale University Press,
June 2018
304 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 204 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
304 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 204 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
During the early modern period in Japan, peace and prosperity allowed elite and popular arts and culture to flourish in Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. The historic first showing outside Japan of Itō Jakuchu's thirty-scroll series titled Colorful Realm of Liv...
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50.00 GBP
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Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting
ISBN: PB: 9781606065129,
Getty Publications,
February 2017
80 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
80 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
Zen art poses a conundrum. On the one hand, Zen Buddhism emphasizes the concept of emptiness, which among other things asserts that form is empty, that all phenomena in the world are illusory. On the other hand, a prodigious amount of artwork has bee...
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12.99 GBP
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Kenzo Tange
Architecture for the World
ISBN: HB: 9783037783108,
Lars Muller Publishers,
October 2012
192 pp., 25,0x20,7 cm, 186 illus.
192 pp., 25,0x20,7 cm, 186 illus.
Kenzo Tange (1913-2005) is a peerless figure among twentieth-century Japanese architects, unmatched in his talent, influence, and versatility. A leading force of the Metabolist movement, he was the first non-Western architect whose works would be emb...
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37.00 GBP
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Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: PB: 9780300125535,
Yale University Press,
February 2008
272 pp., 24,1x19,1 cm, 75 black&white illus.
272 pp., 24,1x19,1 cm, 75 black&white illus.
Since its beginnings in the early 1900s, the study of Asian art has dramatically changed and has constantly been shaped by shifting world politics. "Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century" explores the field of Asian art and its historiography...
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18.00 GBP
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