Oriental Art and Culture

This work in two beautiful volumes is a comprehensive, authentic and scholarly survey off the creative and dominant art of Asia covering vast lands off India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, China, Japan and Central Asia. The first volume contains a variety of articles contributed by scholars off repute bringing out the cultural interrelationship of these lands in contrast isolation from the Near East countries. The creative and intoxicating forms of Mughal paintings, the intricacies off Hindu and eastern Music, the colorful variety of Indian Costumes, very aptly described by Ananda Coomaraswamy are a treat to any scholar on Eastern studies. The Far Eastern complex of China, Korea, Japan and Indonesia is interwoven as far as the art and culture is concerned. The movements of the arts of Painting in China and Japan, the intricate art of Ming Porcelain, Chinese Incised scroll designs, the No Masks of Japan, are some of the topics discusses and contributed by eminent oriental scholars to this volume. The second volume has about 95 art plates in colour and black and white to illustrate fully the articles in the first volume. The editor of these volumes, Arthur Waley has very scholarly laid the articles in their proper perspective. The reader will find these volumes full of cultural wealth and historical traditions. First released in 1924 entitles. The Yearbook of Oriental Art and Culture, this reprint, on full art paper is bound to be welcomed by the students and scholars on Oriental art culture.