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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. Illustrated in color and black & white. With a bibliography and index. 384 pages. 4to. Hardcover, bound in brown cloth. In a dust jacket. Fine/Fine.
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VG+/VG+ Brown cloth over boards; color pictorial dj, brown spine with white lettering. 384 pp. 275 plates and figures, 160 bw and 115 color. Accompanied an exhibition at the Japan Society Gallery, New York; Includes extensive information about early Buddhist art, including murals, sculpture, architecture and more; Beautifully illustrated. Contents as follows: Preface / William Clark, Jr. and Donald Gregg--Foreword and Acknowledgements / Alexandra Munroe--Introduction: The Transmission and Transformation of Early Buddhist Culture in Korea and Japan / Jonathan Best--From the Stone Buddhas of Longxingsi to Buddhist Images of Three Kingdoms Korea and Asuka-Hakuho Japan / Tanabe Saburosuke--The Monastery Koryuji's "Crowned Maitreya" and the Stone Pensive Bodhisattva Excavated at Longxingsi / Onishi Shuya--Early Korean Buddhist Sculptures and Related Japanese Examples: Iconographic and Stylistic Comparisons / Kim Lena--Korean Gilt-Bronze Single Mandorla Buddha Triads and the Dissemination of East Asian Sculptural Style / Kwak Dong-seok--Korean Elements in Japanese Pictorial Representation in the Early Asuka Period / Ariga Yoshitaka--A New Theory: Ki as Represented in Koguryo Murals and Buddhist Haloes of the Three Kingdoms Period / Kang Woo-bang--Todaiji's Great Buddha: Its Foundation in Buddhist Doctrine and Its Chinese and Korean Precedents / Konno Toshifumi--Techniques of Early Buddhist Sculpture in Japan / Washizuka Hiromitsu--The Monastery Hwangnyongsa and Buddhism of the Early Silla Period / Park Youngbok--The Monastery Horyuji: Architectural Forms of Early Buddhism in Japan / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt--The Art of Avatamsaka Sutra in the Unified Silla Period: The Sanctuary of Sokkuram and Hwaom-kyong Pyonsangdo (Narrative Portrayal in the Avatamsaka Sutra) / Kang Woo-bang--Early Korean and Japanese Reliquaries in Relation to Pagoda Architecture / Choi Eung-chon--Buddhist Sculpture--Sutras and Ritual Objects--Tiles from Temples--Roof Tiles of Korea's Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla Periods / Kim Song-gu--Korean Influence and Japanese Innovation in Tiles of the Asuka-Hakuho Period / Mori Ikuo.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Harry N. Abrams, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Handsomely printed copy with elegant silk-like textured covers. Very clean. With 275 illustrations, 115 in color. Includes an insert with the exhibition checklist in Korean. Crisp jacket looking naearly new, with only slight shelfwear at corner tips. Heavy book due to quality paper. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library..
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Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. Book 384 pages with 275 illustrations 115 in color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Japan Society Gallery, New York NY April 9-June 22, 2003.
