Asian Art

by Kerrigan, Michael; Robinson, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781786644770
• ISBN10: 1786644770
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-12-30
• Publisher: Flame Tree Pub

Summary

Over the centuries, the elegance of Asian art has been a source of fascination and inspiration for artists and art lovers worldwide. This beautifully illustrated book, returning after some time out of print explores the diversity of art and artefacts from around Asia, detailing the subjects, the materials used in their making, and the lives of the artists and artisans who created them.

Author Biography

Michael Robinson is a freelance lecturer and writer on British
art and design history. Originally an art dealer with his own provincial
gallery in Sussex, he entered academic life by way of a career change,
having gained a first class honours and Masters degree at Kingston
University. He is currently working on his doctorate, a study of early
modernist period British dealers. He continues to lecture on British and
French art of the Modern period.

Michael Kerrigan is author of Modern Art from the ‘World’s Greatest Art’ series and 100 Great Art Masterpieces, and co-author of The Architecture Style Spotter's Guide along with a great many other books and articles on art, culture and history. He lives in Edinburgh, where he writes regularly for the Scotsman newspaper and is a book reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian.