Maximum Embodiment: Yoga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912-1955

by Bert Winther-Tamaki

Maximum Embodiment presents a compelling thesis articulating the historical character of Yoga, literally the "Western painting" of Japan. The term designates what was arguably the most important movement in modern Japanese art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Perhaps the most critical marker of Yoga was its association with the medium of oil-on-canvas, which differed greatly from the water-based pigments and inks of earlier...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824835379
• ISBN13: 9780824835378
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 10.1"