Author: Ernest F. Fenollosa

Publisher/Date: Stone Bridge, 2007, ISBN 9781933330266

Format/Condition: NEW 2 volume-in-one softcover book, 676 pages

Description: Although superseded by modern scholarship, this 1912 two-volume work (here appearing in one) is still considered a landmark survey that explains Eastern art while simultaneously revealing the state of preliminary-and naïve-Western writing on Asia. Written by Ernest Fenollosa, who helped found what is now Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and in 1890 became curator of the Department of Oriental Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Volume 1 covers early Pacific influences through the Tang dynasty in China and the Kamakura period in Japan, while Volume 2 continues through the Manchu dynasties in China and the explosion of popular art in Edo period Japan.