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Asian Art: An Anthology

ISBN: 978-1-4051-2241-2
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538 pages
May 2006, ©2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • The first comprehensive anthology of important primary documents and key contemporary scholarship on Asian art history.
  • Traces the rich artistic traditions in China, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia across time periods, media, cultural contexts, and geography - from the terracotta armies of the First Emperor of Qin to late 20th-century installation art.
  • Covers both imperially commissioned works and popular, vernacular art.
  • Includes an accessible introduction which provides suggestions of thematic connections across the vast array of visual culture and historical time covered.
  • Captures the diversity and depth of Asian art through primary documents - from inscriptions and imperial decrees to writings by artists and travellers - and through examples of the very best scholarship in the field

  • Features introductory material for each extract, an easy-to-navigate chronological structure, and has been extensively tested by the editors and their colleagues in classrooms

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