Reflections of reality in Japanese art / text by Sherman E. Lee ; catalogue by Michael R. Cunningham with James T. Ulak
Cleveland, Ohio Bloomington, Ind. : Cleveland Museum of Art ; Distributed by Indiana University Press, 1983. First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #478379
ISBN: 0910386706
Physical description: xii, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. Contents: Introduction: Kinds of reality -- Realist exceptions in pre-buddhist Japan -- Chinese and buddhist beginnings -- Early portraiture and masks -- Rokudo and transient reality -- E-maki: Tales well told -- Portraiture in medieval Japan -- Interlude: the bending icon and the thirty-six poets -- Early sites and views: Landscape as subject -- Edo complexities -- A new reality. Subjects: Cho?sen Ko?gei Kenkyu?kai. Art, Japanese ; Exhibitions. Realism in art ; Exhibitions.
Price: €30.00