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Asian Art is the first comprehensive anthology of important primary documents and key contemporary scholarship on Asian art history.

  • Traces the rich artistic traditions in China, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia across time periods, media, cultural contexts, and geography - from the terracotta armies of the First Emperor of Qin to late 20th-century installation art
  • Covers both imperially commissioned works and popular, vernacular art
  • Includes an accessible introduction which provides suggestions of thematic connections across the vast array of visual culture and historical time covered
  • Captures the diversity and depth of Asian art through primary documents - from inscriptions and imperial decrees to writings by artists and travellers - and through examples of the very best scholarship in the field
  • Features introductory material for each extract, an easy-to-navigate chronological structure, and has been extensively tested by the editors and their colleagues in classrooms.

Asian Art: An Anthology

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Asian Art is the first comprehensive anthology of important primary documents and key contemporary scholarship on Asian art history. Traces... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 09/03/2006
    ISBN13: 9781405122412, 978-1405122412
    ISBN10: 1405122412

    Number of Pages: 544

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

    Description

    Asian Art is the first comprehensive anthology of important primary documents and key contemporary scholarship on Asian art history.

    • Traces the rich artistic traditions in China, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia across time periods, media, cultural contexts, and geography - from the terracotta armies of the First Emperor of Qin to late 20th-century installation art
    • Covers both imperially commissioned works and popular, vernacular art
    • Includes an accessible introduction which provides suggestions of thematic connections across the vast array of visual culture and historical time covered
    • Captures the diversity and depth of Asian art through primary documents - from inscriptions and imperial decrees to writings by artists and travellers - and through examples of the very best scholarship in the field
    • Features introductory material for each extract, an easy-to-navigate chronological structure, and has been extensively tested by the editors and their colleagues in classrooms.

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