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

Washizuka Hiromitsu, Park Youngbok, Kang Woo-bang

ISBN 10: 0913304549 / ISBN 13: 9780913304549

Published by Japan Society, New York, 2003

About this Item

384 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 30 cm. Exhibition presented at Japan Society Gallery, New York, from April 9 through June 22, 2003 and organized by Japan Society and the Korea Society, New York in association with the Gyeongju National Museum, the Nara National Museum, the Japan Foundation, and the Korea Foundation.

Seller Inventory # 7cb07

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan
• Publisher: Japan Society, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0913304549
• ISBN 13: 9780913304549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Buddhism
  • Japan

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.