The Art of Japan: From the Jomon to the Tokugawa Period; 1966 Peter G. Swann

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The Art of Japan: From the Jomon to the Tokugawa Period; 1966 by Peter G. Swann - Graphic
Publisher: Greystone Press (1966)
Edition: First American Edition
Hardcover: 242 pages -- Approx. size: 9.25" by 7"
Illustrator: Kyoto Benrido
Peter C. Swann, Keeper of the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, spent a lifetime studying the art of the Far East, and became intimately familiar with life in Japan.
Swann has divided his text into nine chapters, beginning with the pre-Buddhist era, during which the widespread Jomon culture flourished for a very long time, perhaps from as early as the fifth millennium B.C. almost to the Christian Era. The last chapter closes with the opening of the country to the United States in 1868, which forced the Japanese to abandon their isolationist policy and allow foreigners into the country. Immediately thereafter, the Japanese reversed their previous behavior, and began to accept everything Western without discrimination. Many museums were founded to protect the nation’s treasures, and it is to these that we owe a large number of the masterpieces illustrated in this book.
Very good condition. The dust jacket has very light edge wear. It really is very nice. The boards are covered in maroon cloth with gold titles in a gold & black box on the spine and an "art of the world" logo in gold on the front.
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