History of Far Eastern Art / Edition 5

by Sherman Lee

Overview

Covers Himalayan areas--Ladakh, Kashmir, Tibet, and Nepal. New chronologies in Stone age and Bronze Age, China, Korea, and Japan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780131830639
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	01/14/2003
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	9.14(w) x 11.74(h) x 1.48(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	7
	Preface to the Fifth Edition	9
	Comparative Time Chart	10
	Chronological Tables	12
	Map of Asia East of the Indus River	14
	Guide to Pronunciation	16
Part 1	Early Culture and Art: The Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Early Iron Age
1.	Urban Civilization and the Indus Valley; Neolithic and Pre-Shang China; Ban Chieng Culture	18
2.	Chinese Art from the Shang through the Middle Zhou Period	29
	Map of China and Korea	31
3.	The Late Zhou Period	45
4.	The Growth and Expansion of Early Chinese Culture through the Han Dynasty; Korea and Japan	57
Part 2	The International Influence of Buddhist Art
5.	Early Art in India	80
	Map of India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka	93
6.	The International Gupta Style	110
7.	The Expansion of Buddhist Art to East Asia	151
Part 3	The Rise of National Indian and Indonesian Styles
8.	Early Hindu Art in India	190
9.	Early Medieval Hindu Art in South and Central India	217
10.	Later Medieval Hindu Art	238
11.	The Medieval Art of Southeast Asia and Indonesia	263
Part 4	Chinese, Korean, and Japanese National Styles and Their Interplay
12.	The Rise of the Arts of Painting and Ceramics in China	286
13.	The Beginnings of Developed Japanese Art Styles	314
14.	Chinese Art of the Song Dynasty and Korean Ceramics of Koryo	358
15.	Japanese Art of the Kamakura Period	397
16.	Japanese Art of the Muromachi Period	417
17.	Later Chinese Art: The Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties	450
18.	Later Japanese Art: The Momoyama and Edo Periods	510
	Notes	557
	Bibliography	557
	Index	564
	Credits	576