Asian Art - An Anthology

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca M. Brown is an Independent Scholar of South Asian visual culture from the eighteenth century to the present. She is author of Art for a Modern India, 1947-80 (2007). Deborah S. Hutton is Assistant Professor of Art History at the College of New Jersey. She is the author of The Art of the Court of Bijapur (2006), winner of the College Art Association Millard Meiss Publishing Grant and the American Institute of Indian Studies Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in Indian Humanities. Klappentext Asian Art is the first comprehensive anthology of important primary documents ---- from inscriptions and imperial decrees to travelers' accounts and writings by artists -and the very best contemporary scholarship that has been produced on Asian art history. This unprecedented volume offers a portrait of the rich artistic traditions in China, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia. Across time periods, media, cultural contexts, and geography, this volume traces several thousand years of Asian art, from the terracotta armies of the First Emperor of Qin to late twentieth-century installation art. Featuring accessible introductory material for each extract and arranged in an easy-to-navigate chronological structure, it will prove an essential companion to any study of Asian art history. Zusammenfassung Asian Art is the first comprehensive anthology of important primary documents and key contemporary scholarship on Asian art history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 7350683

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• Authors: Brown, Rebecca Brown, Rebecca Hutton Brown, Rebecca M. Brown, Rebecca M. Hutton Brown, Rm Brown, Deborah S. Hutton, Hutton Deborah S.
• Assisted by: Rebecca Brown (Editor), Rebecca M. Brown (Editor), Deborah Hutton (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.03.2006
• EAN: 9781405122405
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-2240-5
• No. of pages: 544
• Series: Blackwell Anthologies in Art H; Blackwell Anthologies in Art History; Blackwell Anthologies in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; ART / History / General, ART / Asian / General, History of Art, East Asia, Far East, Oriental art