Description
This publication examines the Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japan's period of seclusion, to its age of modernization after the mid-19th century. The volume focuses on the ways Japanese painters from the late 1600s to the 20th century pictured China, both as a real place and an imagined promised land. It features three essays by renowned Japanese art historians in addition to more than 50 catalog entries highlighting unusual artworks revealing Japanese artists' complex responses to Chinese art, history and culture.
Museum Story
The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, opened to the public in 1923, a gift to the nation from Charles Lang Freer. The Gallery contains an extensive collection of oriental art, prints, sculpture and silk panels, as well as a major group of 19th and 20th century American works.
Details
- Hardcover
- 336 pages, 125 color illustrations
- 10.8" x 8.5"
- Edited by Frank Feltens, with contributions by Paul Berry and Michiyo Morioka
