<p>The authors of this massive work take a unique approach to their huge subject. Rather than looking at Japanese art chronologically, they take individual media (ceramics, architecture) or ideas (literature into art, nature) and discuss Japanese artists' use and treatment of each. This nontraditional approach is quite thought-provoking and enables the reader better to understand Japanese art as a whole. The text could be more coordinated with the plates, but their sheer numbers (176 magnificent color, 361 clear black-and-white) provide a wealth of study material. There are also 222 views, plans, maps, and diagrams of 79 principal archaeological sites with extensive discussion of each. Other features are a chronology, biographical section, and an extensive bibliography. Altogether a major work and well worth acquisition despite the price. Patricia R. Hausman, Williamsburg Regional Lib., Va. - Library Journal - Library Journal</p>

Art of Japan

Arts & Photography

Elisseeff, Vadime

Élisseeff, Danielle

History & Criticism

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

The Silk Roads: Highways of Culture and Commerce

<p> Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways that played a pivotal role in linking east and west, intermittently bringing together nomads and city dwellers, pastoral peoples and farmers, merchants and monks, and soldiers and pilgrims. The notion of movement is therefore central to an understanding of the relations between peoples; it is also the factor of which specialists have, for various reasons, not taken sufficient account. It is in this context that the Silk Roads Project, initiated by UNESCO, assumes its significance. It has proved very fruitful and led to a large variety of projects of which this volume presents a selection. Although the papers collected here are wide-ranging, they reveal the emergence of the concept of a common heritage and plural identity. The studies carried out under the Project have shown that identity, seen from a long-term perspective, cannot be viewed as a ghetto or an enclosure, but as the result of a whole process of synthesis and encounter between peoples and cultures. (from the Introduction)</p>

Business & Money

Economics

Berghahn Books

. with dustjacket, large format, 1980 clean bright copy

Art de L'Ancien Japon

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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