The 153 masterworks illustrated here represent major trends in Japanese art from its prehistory to its recent past. Exploring the religious, social, intellectual, and purely aesthetic values that helped to bring them about, John M. Rosenfield and Sh jir Shimada provide a thorough historical and aesthetic account of each object.
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The 153 masterworks illustrated here represent major trends in Japanese art from its prehistory to its recent past. Exploring the religious, social, intellectual, and purely aesthetic values that helped to bring them about, John M. Rosenfield and Sh jir Shimada provide a thorough historical and aesthetic account of each object.
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Good. First edition copy. Collectible-Good. Good dust jacket. Notation on rear endpage. (Japanese art, private collections, exhibition catalogs) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
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Very Good. Size: 5x0x9; No Dustjacket, No Writing in text, slight wear to edges and cover. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
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VG-/ VG-(Some fading to cloth at extremities; Light wear to dj. at extremities) Purple cloth over boards; 393 pp.; Profusely illustrated, mostly in bw, with a few color plates as well. Accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Fogg Art Museum; Features Japanese Buddhist arts, arts related to the Zen sect, and much more; Includes glossary of terms; Nicely illustrated with many full-page plates Contents as follows: Japanese Buddhist arts: the ancient epoch (500-1200 AD)--; Japanese Buddhist arts: the middle ages (1200-1600 AD)--; Arts related to the Zen sect--; Ink painting (suiboku-ga)--; Ceramics of the Tea Ceremony--; Zenga--; Koetsu, Sotatsu, and their tradition--; Bunjin-ga: paintings of the literary men--; Genre themes in painting and the decorative arts--; Archaelogical material.
