Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan

Washizuka, Hiromitsu; Woo-Bang, Kang; Saburosuke, Tanabe; Lena, Kim; Hiromitsu, Washizuka

ISBN 10: 0913304549 / ISBN 13: 9780913304549

Published by Harry N. Abrams, 2003

About this Item

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.

Seller Inventory # 043431

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0913304549
• ISBN 13: 9780913304549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art, Architecture & Design
  • Oriental Art & Culture
  • Friends of the Albany Library

About this title

Synopsis

Comparing Korean and Japanese Buddhist art, this volume explores the cultural, ideological and artistic exchange between the two countries during the 6th-9th centuries, when Buddhism took hold throughout northeast Asia. Buddhist sculptures in gilt bronze, wood and stone are the main focus of this work, which contains essays by Korean, Japanese and American scholars.

About the Author

Washizuka Hiromitsu, Director of the Nara National Museum in Japan, and Kang Woo-bang, Professor at Ewha Woman's University and former director of the Gyeongju National Museum in Korea, are co-curators of the accompanying exhibition.