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Book Synopsis The Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture by : Shih-shan Susan Huang
Download or read book The Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture written by Shih-shan Susan Huang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-11-20 with total page 1069 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study explores the dynamic spread of Buddhist print culture in China and its Asian neighbors. It examines a vast selection of Buddhist printed images and texts, not merely as static cultural relics, but holistically within multicultural contexts related to other cultural products, and as objects on the move, transmitted across a sprawling web of transnational networks, “Buddhist Book Roads”. The author applies interdisciplinary and network approaches developed in art history, religious studies, digital humanities, and the history of the print and book culture to shed new light on Buddhist print culture from visual, textual, social, and religious perspectives.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture by : Rebecca M. Brown
Download or read book A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture written by Rebecca M. Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture presents a collection of 26 original essays from top scholars in the field that explore and critically examine various aspects of Asian art and architectural history. Brings together top international scholars of Asian art and architecture Represents the current state of the field while highlighting the wide range of scholarly approaches to Asian Art Features work on Korea and Southeast Asia, two regions often overlooked in a field that is often defined as India-China-Japan Explores the influences on Asian art of global and colonial interactions and of the diasporic communities in the US and UK Showcases a wide range of topics including imperial commissions, ancient tombs, gardens, monastic spaces, performances, and pilgrimages.
Download or read book Art of the Samurai written by 原田一敏 and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This extensively illustrated catalogue is published in conjunction with the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts of the samurai, including the finest examples of swords - the spirit of the samurai - as well as sword mountings and fittings, armor and helmets, saddles, textiles, and paintings. The works in the catalogue, drawn from public and private collections in Japan, include 34 officially designated National Treasures and 64 Important Cultural Properties, the largest number ever to be shown together at one time. Dating from the 5th to the early 20th century, these majestic objects offer a complete picture of samurai culture and its unique blend of the martial and the refined." "Many of the greatest Japanese swordsmiths are represented in this volume, from early masters such as Yasuie (12th century) and Tomomitsu (14th century) to the Edo-period smiths Nagasone Kotetsu and Kiyomaro. The blades by these and other masters, cherished as much for their beauty as for their cutting efficiency, were equipped with elaborate hilts and scabbards prized for their exquisite craftsmanship and fine materials such as silk, rayskin, gold, lacquer, and certain alloys unique to Japan. Japanese armor is also fully surveyed, from the rarest iron armor of the Kofun period (5th century) to the inventive ceremonial helmets made toward the end of the age of the samurai." --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Yamamoto Baiitsu, His Life, Literary Pursuits, and Related Paintings by : Patricia Jane Graham
Download or read book Yamamoto Baiitsu, His Life, Literary Pursuits, and Related Paintings written by Patricia Jane Graham and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary Catalog of the Library of the Freer Gallery of Art. Smithonsonian Institution, Washington by : Freer Gallery of Art. Library
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Library of the Freer Gallery of Art. Smithonsonian Institution, Washington written by Freer Gallery of Art. Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005 by : Patricia J. Graham
Download or read book Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005 written by Patricia J. Graham and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art explores the transformation of Buddhism from the premodern to the contemporary era in Japan and the central role its visual culture has played in this transformation. Although Buddhism is generally regarded as peripheral to modern Japanese society, this book demonstrates otherwise. Its chapters elucidate the thread of change over time in the practice of Buddhism as revealed in temple worship halls and other sites of devotion and in imagery representing the religion’s most popular deities and religious practices. It also introduces the work of modern and contemporary artists who are not generally associated with institutional Buddhism and its canonical visual requirements but whose faith inspires their art. The author makes a persuasive argument that the neglect of these materials by scholars results from erroneous presumptions about the aesthetic superiority of early Japanese Buddhist artifacts and an asserted decline in the institutional power of the religion after the sixteenth century. She demonstrates that recent works constitute a significant contribution to the history of Japanese art and architecture, providing evidence of Buddhism’s compelling presence at all levels of Japanese society and its evolution in response to the needs of new generations of supporters.
Book Synopsis Chikubushima by : Andrew Mark Watsky
Download or read book Chikubushima written by Andrew Mark Watsky and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this meticulous and lucid study, Andrew Watsky keenly illustrates how private belief and political ambition influenced artsitic production at the intersection of institutional Buddhism and Shinto during this tumultuous period of rapid and radical political, social, and aesthetic changes. He offers substantial conclusions not only about the specific site, but also, more broadly, about the nature of art production in Japan and how perceptions of the sacred shaped the concerns and actions of the secular rulers ... Watsky has had unique access to the island, and many of the images included here have not previously been published. -- Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Avant-garde Art in Japan by : Michel Tapié
Download or read book Avant-garde Art in Japan written by Michel Tapié and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of about 30 artists: painters, sculptors, flower arrangers, and garden designers. Includes an essay by Tore Haga on the connection between the avant-garde movement in Japan and some American painters.
Book Synopsis Modern Masters of Kyoto by : Michiyo Morioka
Download or read book Modern Masters of Kyoto written by Michiyo Morioka and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Modern Masters of Kyoto presents more than eighty examples of Kyoto nihonga - hanging scrolls, screens, and an album - dating from the 1860s to the 1940s. Featuring two exceptionally original artists, Tsuji Kako (1870-1931) and his pupil Tomita Keisen (1879-1936), the volume includes works by their predecessors, their contemporaries, and their successors. Collectively their works demonstrate the evolution of Kyoto nihonga in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book introduces Western readers to a range of Kyoto artists from the most famous to the talented but relatively unknown. Their often visually stunning paintings provide a window from which to glimpse both the past and the modern in Japanese art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Being Modern in Japan by : Elise K. Tipton
Download or read book Being Modern in Japan written by Elise K. Tipton and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a multi-faceted study of the development of modernism in Japan, with authors from Japan, the United States, and Australia spanning the fields of art history, social history, and literature.
Book Synopsis Japan Envisions the West by : Yukiko Shirahara
Download or read book Japan Envisions the West written by Yukiko Shirahara and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, visual images produced in the nineteenth century show the effort, surprise, and curiosity of the Japanese as they tried to understand America and Americans.
Download or read book Nihonga written by Ellen P. Conant and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nihonga is an art form which merges Japanese tradition and Western influences. This study examines the first century of the development of Nihonga, from the middle decades of the 19th century through modern masterpieces of abstraction and representation created in the 1960s.
Book Synopsis Zen at War by : Brian Daizen Victoria
Download or read book Zen at War written by Brian Daizen Victoria and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly peaceful religion for Japanese militarism throughout World War II. Drawing on the writings and speeches of leading Zen masters and scholars, Brian Victoria shows that Zen served as a powerful foundation for the fanatical and suicidal spirit displayed by the imperial Japanese military. At the same time, the author recounts the dramatic and tragic stories of the handful of Buddhist organizations and individuals that dared to oppose Japan's march to war. He follows this history up through recent apologies by several Zen sects for their support of the war and the way support for militarism was transformed into 'corporate Zen' in postwar Japan. The second edition includes a substantive new chapter on the roots of Zen militarism and an epilogue that explores the potentially volatile mix of religion and war. With the increasing interest in Buddhism in the West, this book is as timely as it is certain to be controversial.
Book Synopsis A Long Winding Path by : David Payne
Download or read book A Long Winding Path written by David Payne and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Long Winding Path is an absorbing account in the lives of Michael Leonard and Elizabeth Porter. The book chronicles various twists and turns in ultimately revealing the intertwined fates of the two. The book traces Michael's youth in rural North Carolina, offering a window into life for blacks in the 1950s. It provides a feeling for Michael's struggles during the tumultuous times of segregation and Jim Crow. The reader is introduced to Nesie, his childhood crush as well as star-crossed lover. The obvious natural attraction between the two could not be ignored. The book examines Michael's metamorphosis to adulthood. Driven by the civil rights movement, Michael interrupts his college education. He marries what he believes is his love of a lifetime only to find tragedy and distress. Mercifully, a twist of fate temporarily places Nesie back into Michael's life. Sadly their reunion seemed to offer false hope however, events beyond his control would influence future course of events. Fate was about to teach Michael the meaning of the word serendipity. Fate was also going to familiarize him with the name Elizabeth Porter.The book demonstrates how the zig-zag of life's experiences teaches Michael just when he was confident in knowing all of life's answers the universe flipped the proverbial script. He learned people come into our lives at the right time because they are meant to. Michael's journey is filled with heartache, sorrow, tears, joy, failure, and most important of all love. For Michael and Elizabeth, life's trek was a long winding path. Similar to most journeys, there are good roads, bad roads, detours, wrong turns, and too many hazards to count. Heart wrenching pain and inconvenience is also a pesky part of life's truth, but despite distractions they stayed the course and kept going. They stayed the course and found each other. They stayed the course and found unconditional love.This is a riveting story of tenacity, family, destiny and love. The storyline demonstrates how a palpable connection between people never dies. Despite life's impediments, a true bond is never really broken; life simply happens.
Author :Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Publisher :Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 13 :0870990837 Total Pages :164 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (79 download)
Book Synopsis Sung and Yuan Paintings by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book Sung and Yuan Paintings written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1973 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acquisition of 25 paintings from the collection of C.C. Wang.
Download or read book Possessing the Past written by 國立故宮博物院 and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1996 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major scholarly work, published in conjunction with the exhibition titled "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei" (on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during 1996, and scheduled for several other American cities during 1996-1997). Written by scholars of both Chinese and Western cultural backgrounds and conceived as a cultural history, the book synthesizes scholarship of the past three decades to present the historical and cultural significance of individual works of art and analyses of their aesthetic content, as well as reevaluation of the cultural dynamics of Chinese history. Includes some 600 illustrations, 436 in color. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Wintry Forests, Old Trees by : Richard M. Barnhart
Download or read book Wintry Forests, Old Trees written by Richard M. Barnhart and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
