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Taiga's True Views: The Language of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth-Century Japan
Taiga's True Views The Language of Landscape Painting in EighteenthCentury Japan Author:Melinda Takeuchi With 33 color and 64 black-and-white illustrations, this is the first major work in English on one of Japan's preeminent painters, Ike Taiga (1723-76), focusing on his shinkeizu (true-view pictures), landscapes of actual places in Japan. 'Takeuchi brilliantly captures the spirit of an entire age, artistically and intellectually. In addition, her... more » information and observation are rendered in beautifully crafted prose.' Monumenta Nipponica 'It brings the artist to life to a degree unprecedented in other Western books on Japanese paintings.' Art Documentation« less