Search Results - "Japanese art

What's the use of art? Asian visual and material culture in context /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Wrapping and unwrapping art / Morgan Pitelka -- Functions -- From the living rock: understanding figural representation in early South Asia / Robert Decaroli -- Disposable but indispensable: the earthenware vessel as vehicle of meaning in Japan / Louise Allison Cort -- From the wedding chamber to the museum: relocating the ritual arts of Madhubani / Richard H. …”
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What's the use of art? Asian visual and material culture in context /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Wrapping and unwrapping art / Morgan Pitelka -- Functions -- From the living rock: understanding figural representation in early South Asia / Robert Decaroli -- Disposable but indispensable: the earthenware vessel as vehicle of meaning in Japan / Louise Allison Cort -- From the wedding chamber to the museum: relocating the ritual arts of Madhubani / Richard H. …”
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Historical dictionary of modern Japanese literature and theater by Miller, J. Scott (John Scott)

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Historical dictionary of modern Japanese literature and theater by Miller, J. Scott (John Scott)

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The world created in the image of man the conflict between pictorial form and space in defiance of the law of temporality / by Brodskiĭ, V. E. (Vladimir Evseevich)

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Japanese defiance of the Chinese concept of unlimited space : the role of the oblique setting in the illustrations of the first half of the twelfth century to Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji -- The virgin of Vladimir (early twelfth century) and The virgin of the Don (c. 1392), two icons from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow : striving for a particularize feeling -- The arch motive in Italian Renaissance art : its changing meaning in compositional function -- Rembrandt and the Baroque : contained emotion and the hostility of darkness -- French impressionism as heir to the classical tradition and its encounter with Japanese "pictures of the floating world" (Ukiyo-e) -- Conclusion. …”
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The world created in the image of man the conflict between pictorial form and space in defiance of the law of temporality / by Brodskiĭ, V. E. (Vladimir Evseevich)

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Japanese defiance of the Chinese concept of unlimited space : the role of the oblique setting in the illustrations of the first half of the twelfth century to Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji -- The virgin of Vladimir (early twelfth century) and The virgin of the Don (c. 1392), two icons from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow : striving for a particularize feeling -- The arch motive in Italian Renaissance art : its changing meaning in compositional function -- Rembrandt and the Baroque : contained emotion and the hostility of darkness -- French impressionism as heir to the classical tradition and its encounter with Japanese "pictures of the floating world" (Ukiyo-e) -- Conclusion. …”
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Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture by Porcu, Elisabetta

Table of Contents: “…Stewart's By the old walls of Kyoto -- The theme of death from the perspective of Jodo Shinshu: Aoki Shinmon's Coffinman: the journal of a Buddhist mortician -- Pure Land Buddhism and creative arts -- Aesthetics and religion in Yanagi Muneyoshi -- Yanagi and cultural nationalism -- The woodblock artist Munakata Shiko and tariki -- Representations of the Pure Land in contemporary visual arts -- Recent trends in contemporary Japanese visual arts: Mori Mariko's Pure land -- Pure Land Buddhism and the tea ceremony -- Images of chanoyu -- Pure Land Buddhism in the tradition of chanoyu -- A connection between the Honganji-ha and chanoyu: the Yabunouchi school of tea -- Traditional culture in a Jodo Shinshu temple: chanoyu at an Otani-ha temple.…”
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Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture by Porcu, Elisabetta

Table of Contents: “…Stewart's By the old walls of Kyoto -- The theme of death from the perspective of Jodo Shinshu: Aoki Shinmon's Coffinman: the journal of a Buddhist mortician -- Pure Land Buddhism and creative arts -- Aesthetics and religion in Yanagi Muneyoshi -- Yanagi and cultural nationalism -- The woodblock artist Munakata Shiko and tariki -- Representations of the Pure Land in contemporary visual arts -- Recent trends in contemporary Japanese visual arts: Mori Mariko's Pure land -- Pure Land Buddhism and the tea ceremony -- Images of chanoyu -- Pure Land Buddhism in the tradition of chanoyu -- A connection between the Honganji-ha and chanoyu: the Yabunouchi school of tea -- Traditional culture in a Jodo Shinshu temple: chanoyu at an Otani-ha temple.…”
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Mechademia.

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Mechademia.

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A Bowl for a Coin : A Commodity History of Japanese Tea / by Farris, William Wayne

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A Bowl for a Coin : A Commodity History of Japanese Tea / by Farris, William Wayne

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Art and palace politics in early modern Japan, 1580s-1680s by Lillehoj, Elizabeth

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Art and palace politics in early modern Japan, 1580s-1680s by Lillehoj, Elizabeth

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Beautiful fighting girl by Saitō, Tamaki, 1961-

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Beautiful fighting girl by Saitō, Tamaki, 1961-

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America's Japan and Japan's performing arts cultural mobility and exchange in New York, 1952-2011 / by Thornbury, Barbara E.

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America's Japan and Japan's performing arts cultural mobility and exchange in New York, 1952-2011 / by Thornbury, Barbara E.

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Frames of anime culture and image-building / by Hu, Tze-yue G.

Table of Contents: “…Origins of the Japanese art of animating -- Continuity of art forms and their visualness -- Cultural thought, expressing the self, and image-building -- Development of Japanese animation up to the end of the Second World War -- Postwar Japanese animation development and Toei Animation Studio -- Miyazaki and Takahata Anime Cinema -- Anime in Asia: a case of cultural imperialism?.…”
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Frames of anime culture and image-building / by Hu, Tze-yue G.

Table of Contents: “…Origins of the Japanese art of animating -- Continuity of art forms and their visualness -- Cultural thought, expressing the self, and image-building -- Development of Japanese animation up to the end of the Second World War -- Postwar Japanese animation development and Toei Animation Studio -- Miyazaki and Takahata Anime Cinema -- Anime in Asia: a case of cultural imperialism?.…”
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