History of Far Eastern Art

by Lee, Sherman

• ISBN13: 9780133933987
• ISBN10: 0133933989
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

For Freshman/Senior-level courses covering all Asian Art including China, Japan, SE Asia, and India. This extensively-illustrated, comprehensive survey history of ALL of Far Eastern art from 5000 B.C. to A.D. 1860 follows a chronological, geographical/cultural, medium organization throughout.

Table of Contents

Preface

Comparative Time Chart

Chronological Tables

Map of Asia East of the Indus River

Guide to Pronunciation

Early Culture and Art: The Stone Age, The Bronze Age, and The Early Iron Age

Urban Civilization and the Indus Valley; Neolithic and Pre-Shang China; Ban Chieng Culture

Chinese Art from the Shang through the Middle Zhou Period

The Late Zhou Period

The Growth and Expansion of Early Chinese Culture through the Han Dynasty; Korea and Japan

International Influence of Buddhist Art

Early Art in India

The International Gupta Style

The Expansion of Buddhist Art to East Asia

The Rise of National Indian and Indonesian Styles

Early Hindu Art in India

Early Medieval Hindu Art in South and Central India

Later Medieval Hindu Art

The Medieval Art of Southeast Asia and Indonesia

Chinese, Korean, and Japanese National Styles and Their Interplay

The Rise of the Arts of Painting and Ceramics in China

The Beginnings of Developed Japanese Art Styles

Chinese Art of the Song Dynasty and Korean Ceramics of Koryo

Japanese Art of the Kamakura Period

Japanese Art of the Muromachi Period

Later Chinese Art: The Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties

Later Japanese Art: The Momoyama and Edo Periods

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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