Published by Cleveland Museum Of Art & Indiana University Press, Cleveland 1983 (exhibition catalogue), 1983
ISBN 10: 0910386706 ISBN 13: 9780910386708
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
26.5 x 19.0cms, 292pp + slipped in 8 page index & errata; 138 b/w illusts, very good hardcover & dustwrapper (sunned spine) The chapters are: kinds of reality; realist exceptions in pre-Buddhist Japan; Chinese & Japanese beginnings; early portraiture & masks; Rokudo & transient reality; e-maki, tales well told; portraiture in medieval Japan; the bending iron & 36 poets; landscape as subject; Edo complexities; a new reality. This analysis draws on early ceramic sculpture and late 19th century paintings to argue that Japanese realism is unique.
Seller: Librairie Chat, Beijing, China
Condition: Fine. Volume: 1.