The Enduring Art of Japan

by Landon WARNER

Paperback, 1952

Status

Available

Call number

RAR.AHC.WAL.EAJ

Publication

Grove Press

Call number

RAR.AHC.WAL.EAJ

Library's review

This book presents an informal survey of the history and personalities, the culture, and the religion of Japan from their beginnings through the middle of the 18th century, revealing the rich variety of arts and crafts that expressed the changing times. The author then interprets three aspects of
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the national art which profoundly affect the whole: folk Art, the development of the shorthand convention in painting, and Zen Buddhism and its expression in the art of gardens and tea ceremonies.

(Abstract paraphrased from synopsis on back cover)
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Pages

113
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