This volume of ten papers was published on the occasion of the international symposium The Arts of Japan held on April 29-30, 2000, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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This volume of ten papers was published on the occasion of the international symposium The Arts of Japan held on April 29-30, 2000, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Add this copy of The Arts of Japan: an International Symposium to cart. $73.50, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Dept. of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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VG+ Color illustrated wraps, French flaps, white lettering on brown spine, 263 pp, profusely illustrated in bw. Papers prepared for an international symposium organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition The art of Japan from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection, oon view at the Metropolitan Museum from March 28 to June 25, 2000. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Buddhist sculptures of the Kamakura period in New York collections / Tsutomu Yamamoto--Traveling across the sea: Japanese rakan and the Ten Kings of Hell / Masako Watanabe--Sesshu's legacy: toward Momoyama painting / Michael Cunningham--The search for profound delicacy: the art of Kano Tan'yu / Toshie Kihara--Transcending decoration: the significance of Maki-e in the arts of Japan / Ann Yonemura--Rinpa: the past, present, and future / Satoko Tamamushi--Shopping for pots in Momoyama Japan / Louise Allison Cort--Seventeenth-century Japanese enameled porcelain: research developments in Imari and Kutani porcelains / Hiroko Nishida--The coquetry of the Kanbun beauty / Tadashi Kobayashi--Japanese paintings of Chinese beauties in the late Edo period / Timothy Clark.
