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How to Look at Japanese Art by Audrey Yoshiko Seo, Stephen Addiss (1996, Paperback) 
How to Look at Japanese Art by Audrey Yoshiko Seo, Stephen Addiss (1996, Paperback)
Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
Publication Date: 1996-03-30
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0810926407
ISBN-13: 9780810926400
Product ID: EPID523808
Description: This book discusses, in clear and straightforward terms, six major arts of Japan: painting, sculpture, prints, ceramics, calligraphy, and garden design.
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Synopsis
This book discusses, in clear and straightforward terms, six major arts of Japan: painting, sculpture, prints, ceramics, calligraphy, and garden design.

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Publication Date:1996-03-30

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Length:144 pages
Height:8.8 in
Width:7.0 in
Thickness:0.2 in
Weight:13.6 oz

Publisher's Note
The first book to introduce beginning viewers to one of the oldest and most admired art traditions in the world, How to Look at Japanese Art discusses six major arts of Japan--painting, sculpture, prints, ceramics, calligraphy, and garden design. Author Stephen Addiss interweaves his discussion of the composition, color, form, and subject matter of the more than 60 works featured with a perceptive treatment of their broader cultural context. His illuminating commentaries are sure to awaken the reader's own powers of observation and bring home the myriad delights to be found in the arts of Japan.

Westerners have long been fascinated by Japanese art, but many viewers are unable to fully enjoy the work because they are unfamiliar with its distinctive attributes. Now, Stephen Addiss presents a complete introduction to one of the world's oldest and most admired art traditions. He discusses the composition, color, form, and subject matter of more than 60 outstanding works.

Industry Reviews
This lovely introduction to the aesthetics of Japanese art illustrates such typical characteristics as concern with nature, transformation of foreign influences, asymmetrical use of space, and humor. Chapters on ceramics, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, prints, and gardens discuss a small number of well-chosen examples, including many by women. Each chapter concludes with a page of key questions to ask when looking at a particular type of art. Addiss (art, Univ. of Richmond; The Art of Zen, Abrams, 1989) speaks directly to readers unfamiliar with Japanese art, posing questions designed to promote engagement with the works presented. His encouraging and personal approach makes this book ideal for students and general readers. A good addition to public or academic collections containing monographs on Japanese art or artists. Kathryn Wekselman, Univ. of Cincinnati, Ohio
Breitman

This small volume, organized around six important categories of Japanese visual arts ceramics, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, prints and gardens has fashioned itself as an introduction to Japanese aesthetic sensibilities. Its format roughly follows the textbook norm, covering the time line from Jomon ceramics (1500 B.C.E.) to current artists, with examples from each category. Addiss directs the viewer in looking at each work, and poses unthreatening questions both within the text and as a "summary quiz" for each chapter. The text is high-school level or, perhaps, freshman-year humanities requirement for science majors. The descriptions of the works, and the rhetoric Addiss uses to engage "beginning viewers," presuppose a na?vet? that flirts with simplemindedness. The historical information is accurate and momentarily illuminating, but there is not much of it. In fact, the main purpose here is apparently to incite further exploration, but it does seem that a reader truly interested in Japanese art would just bypass it for a richer, more complete account. (May)
Lopate

This small volume, organized around six important categories of Japanese visual arts ceramics, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, prints and gardens has fashioned itself as an introduction to Japanese aesthetic sensibilities. Its format roughly follows the textbook norm, covering the time line from Jomon ceramics (1500 B.C.E.) to current artists, with examples from each category. Addiss directs the viewer in looking at each work, and poses unthreatening questions both within the text and as a "summary quiz" for each chapter. The text is high-school level or, perhaps, freshman-year humanities requirement for science majors. The descriptions of the works, and the rhetoric Addiss uses to engage "beginning viewers," presuppose a na‹vet‚ that flirts with simplemindedness. The historical information is accurate and momentarily illuminating, but there is not much of it. In fact, the main purpose here is apparently to incite further exploration, but it does seem that a reader truly interested in Japanese art would just bypass it for a richer, more complete account. (May)
Publishers Weekly (04/01/1996)

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