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"Masterworks of Asian Art" (hardcover w/dustjacket) - The Cleveland Museum
of Art by Michael R. Cunningham, Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and
J. Keith Wilson.
Copyright 1998, 254 pages, Published by Thames & Hudson, VERY GOOD Condition
(NEW/some shelf wear on dustcover edges/cover edges, slight bumps on cover
corners), Cover price: $75.00. Starting bid price: $29.99.
"From the time of Marco Polo's journeys and the legendary Silk Road, the
ancient cultures of Asia have fascinated and enriched the West. Now, at the
end of the twentieth century, interest in Asian art and thought has never
been more intense.
Presented here are the highlights of the Cleveland Museum of Art's
celebrated collection of Asian art, the range and quality of which have been
made possible by a steadfast commitment that dates from the founding of the
museum in 1913. Demonstrating a breadth of vision that was unusual for the
time, the museum sought not only the arts of China and Japan, then beginning
to acquire a presence in America's young museums, but also those of Korea,
India, and Southeast Asia. In the intervening three-quarters of a century
this interest was cultivated by a series of generous collectors and gifted
curators, including the museum's third director, Sherman E. Lee, who
gradually built one of the premier collections of Asian art in the West.
Masterworks of Asian Art presents for the first time more than one hundred
of the finest objects in full color, including Chinese paintings and
textiles, traditional Japanese ink paintings and medieval stoneware, and
superb examples of Cambodian and early Indian stone sculpture. among
Cleveland's treasures are an extraordinary lacquered drum stand of China's
Eastern Zhou dynasty; the Kumano Mandala, perhaps the finest Shinto painting
in the West; and Snowscape with Figures, the only dated painting by Kim Che,
the premier artist of his generation during the Choson period in Korea. The
commentaries reflect the latest scholarship in the field, and an
introduction by Michael R. Cunningham, curator of Japanese and Korean Art,
recounts the history of the collection's formation in detail." With 125
color illustrations