A Floating World: Movement and Impermanence in Japanese Art - Brossura

 
9783753307145: A Floating World: Movement and Impermanence in Japanese Art

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A tribute to the diverse artistic expressions of the ephemeral nature of life in Japanese art.

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Matthias K Wagner is Director of Frankfurt’s Museum Angewandte Kunst.

Stephan von der Schulenburg is an art historian specialising in Asian art.

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A tribute to the diverse artistic expressions of the ephemeral nature of life in Japanese art.

From weathered, centuries-old wooden sculptures and broken tea bowls repaired with gold lacquer to paintings and woodcuts depicting cherry blossom festivals and man's relationship with water in all its forms, A Floating World presents Japan as a nation with a unique aesthetic language of the ephemeral. In a place where earthquakes, tsunamis and human-made catastrophes can snatch away life at any moment, an art

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