History of Japanese Art - Hardcover

Mason, Penelope

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130163953 ISBN 13: 9780130163950

Publisher: Pearson, 1993

Synopsis

This is the only reliable logically organized with well chosen illustrations available. It includes painting, sculpture and architecture as well as treatment of the minor arts.

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From the Back Cover:

Japanese art, like so many expressions of Japanese culture, is fascinatingly rich in its contrasts and paradoxes. Since the country opened its doors to the outside world in the mid-nineteenth century. Japanese art and culture have enjoyed an immense popularity in the West. When in 1993 renowned scholar Penelope Mason wrote the the first edition of History of Japanese Art, it was the first such volume in thirty yearsto chart a detailed overview of the subject. It remains the only comprehensive survey of its kind in English. This second edition ties together more closely the development of all the media within a well-articulated historical and social context.

New to the Second Edition

• Extended coverage of Japanese art beyond 1945
• New discoveries both in archeology and scholarship
• New material on calligraphy, ceramics, lacquerware, metalware, and textiles
• An extended glossary
• A comprehensively updated bibliography
• 94 new illustrations

Synopsis:

Within the scope of this comprehensive survey are the painting, sculpture, architecture, and ceramics of Japan and their social, political, religious, and intellectual contexts an ambitious undertaking, admirably accomplished. Clear, smooth writing draws beginning students of Japanese art and culture gracefully through dense amounts of information.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0130163953
• ISBN 13: 9780130163950
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432