Modern Japanese Painting: An Art in Transition
Tokyo & Palo Alto: Kodansha International LTD., 1967.
First Edition. Hardcover.
First Edition. Translated and adapted by Toshizo Imai.
A monograph on a modern renaissance in art in Japan in the decades leading up to World War II. During this period, Japanese artists were inspired by techniques and styles of Western artists and embraced an individualism in artistic expression that redefined and revitalized the traditionally rigid Japanese painting styles into transcendent forms of individual expression. The author looks at 36 works in the Japanese and Western style by 30 eminent Japanese artists. The text relates the modern art of Japan to the social, poltical, economic, and intellectual context of the times and provdides a discussion of each painter represented.
Item #9015699 x 11-3/8", mauve endpapers, 131pp, index, 36 color plates.
Fine in dust wrapper, protective mylar, and publisher’s cardboard slip-case.
Price: $40.00