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Item Number: 137750
Title: Tiger, Kraniche, Schöne Frauen – Asiatische Kunst aus der Sammlung Klaus F. Naumann. Tigers, Cranes, Beautiful Women – Asian Art from the Klaus F. Naumann Collection
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ISBN: 9783731902843
Description: Peteresberg: Imhof, Museum für Asiatische Kunst,Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2015. 31cm., pbk., 384pp., 278 color illus. German-English text.

Summary: Comprised of two-hundred paintings, ceramics and lacquers, mainly from Japan yet also including examples from China and Korea, the Klaus F. Naumann Collection represents one of the foremost efforts by a private individual in this field to find its way into a public institution. This publication introduces and illustrates for the first time all the works in the collection housed at the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The main emphasis is on the development of painting in Japan, represented here in formats that range from intimate hanging scrolls to large-scale screens, and on a wide variety of subjects that include Buddhist icons, sublime ink landscapes, illustrations of literary and mythological subjects and images of animals, plants and human beings. Vessels with natural glazes, blue-and-white porcelains and serving dishes with painterly polychrome designs, objects lacquered almost monochrome red and others that display sprinkled gold decorations over a black ground provide a glimpse of the multi-faceted achievements of more than a thousand years of art in Japan

Contents: I. Early Ceramics and Images for Buddhist Practices, 5th – 16th Centuries ; II. Continental Archetypes: Lacquerware and Paintings from China and Korea ; III. Naturalness and the Monochrome Principle, 14th – 16th centuries ; IV. Splendor of a Golden Age ; V. Orthodox Chinese and Japanese Motifs forNew Rulers and Old Elites, 17th and 18th century ; VI. New Developments in Painting and Ceramics in 18th and 19th-century Kyoto ; VII. Beyond Japan – A Longing for China and Exotic Lacquers from Ryukyu ; VIII. Urban Culture and Beautiful Women, 17th – 19th centuries ; IX. The Renaissance of Courtly Elegance and the Decorative Tradition in the 19th Century ; X. Pottery from Korea, by Bernard Leach, Kawai Kanjiro and Hamada Shoji.

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