Summary
Sherman Lee: History of Art: The Far East
From the Stone Age to the End of the 18th Century
The book begins with the oldest cultures of East Asia, the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, with special emphasis on the Indus Valley Civilization - which is linked to other ancient city cultures in the river valleys of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and the great Bronze Age culture of ancient China. After that part comes a study of the flourishing of Buddhist art in India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Far East. The last part, in which the main attention is devoted to China and Japan, draws the folk and international character of the art of the Far East, which alternated.
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