商品簡介
An authoritative and wide-ranging visual essay on the aesthetics of Japan, now in a beautiful paperback edition. A unique handbook that aids an understanding of Japanese culture through its architecture, arts, crafts, cinema, and literature. Written by one of the world's most respected specialists and scholars of Japanese art and culture.
Illustrated with over 150 images, both traditional and contemporary.
作者簡介
Gian Carlo Calza is Professor of East Asian Art History at the University of Venice, and Director of the International Hokusai Research Centre in Milan. He has published many books, exhibition catalogues and articles on Hokusai, and is author of Ukiyo-e and Hokusai, also published by Phaidon. He was awarded the 2004 Uchiyama Prize by the International Ukiyo-e Society of Tokyo for his contribution to the study of Japanese Ukiyo-e ('Floating World') culture.