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Asian Art is 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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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles Art styles not defined by date

• Full title: Asian Art
• Author: Rebecca M Brown
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544
• EAN: 9781405122412
• ISBN: 1405122412
• ID: 04197100
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 868 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 168 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. March 2006

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