Paine, Robert Treat / Soper, Alexander.

The Art and Architecture of Japan (Pelican History of Art Series). Edited by Nikolaus Pevsner.

Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1955. 18.4 cm x 26.4 cm. Illustrated colour frontispiece. XVIII, 316 pages. With many black and white plates. Includes maps of China, Korea and Japan. Original Hardcover. With many black and white plates. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. With only very minor foxing to pastedowns, endpapers and title page. Discolouration to edges. Text contains some minor red ink and pencil markings. Gilt lettering to spine and emblem on front cover. Binding tight. Rear pastedown contains bookstore sticker. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

Includes for example the following essays: Part One: Painting and Sculpture by Robert Treat Paine: The Early Japanese: Archaic Period / Buddhism as a State Religion: Nara Period (710-784) / The Renaissance of Chinese Traditions: Muromachi Period (1392-1568) / The Return to Native Traditions: Edo Period (1615-1867) / Early Paintings of the Ukiyo-E School: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Part Two: Architecture by Alexander Soper: Architecture of The Pre-Buddhist Age: Houses and Shinto Shrines / Buddhist Architecture of the Heian Period: The Monastery-Temple / The Single-Storeyed Pagoda / Shinto Architecture from Nara to Kamakura / Buddhist Architecture of the Kamakura Period: The ‘Indian Style’, The ‘Chinese Style’, The ‘Japanese Style’ and the Eclectic Style / Religious Architecture of Muromachi, Momoyama, and Edo etc.

The hardback series the Pelican History of Art started publication in May 1953, with Painting in Britain: 1530–1790 by Ellis K. Waterhouse.(Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Buddhist Architecture · History · History of Architecture · History of Art · Japanese Architecture · Japanese Art · Japanese History
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1299998429
• Inventory Number: 200327AB

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