Asian Art

Over the centuries, the exotic elegance of Asian art has been a source of fascination for artists and art lovers worldwide. This comprehensive book explores the diversity of art and artefacts from around Asia, detailing the subjects, the materials used in their making, and the lives of the artists and artisans who created them.

About the author

Michael Kerrigan is author of Asian Art and Modern Art from the ‘World’s Greatest Art’ series, and co-author of The Architecture Style Spotter's Guide along with a great many other books and articles on art, culture and history. He lives in Edinburgh, where he writes regularly for the Scotsman newspaper and is a book reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian.Michael Robinson is a freelance lecturer and writer on British art and design history. Originally an art dealer with his own provincial gallery in Sussex, he entered academic life by way of a career change, having gained a first class honours and Masters degree at Kingston University. He is currently working on his doctorate, a study of early modernist period British dealers. He continues to lecture on British and French art of the Modern period.

Summary

Over the centuries, the exotic elegance of Asian art has been a source of fascination for artists and art lovers worldwide. This comprehensive book explores the diversity of art and artefacts from around Asia, detailing the subjects, the materials used in their making, and the lives of the artists and artisans who created them.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Kerrigan, Kerrigan Michael
• Assisted by: Michael Robinson (Foreword), Robinson Michael (Foreword)
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781786644770
• ISBN: 978-1-78664-477-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: The World's Greatest Art; The World's Greatest Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; ART / History / General, ART / Asian / General, History of Art, East Asia, Far East, Art & Design, art history; eastern art; eastern world; nature