The Lyric Journey: Poetic Painting in China and Japan

by James Cahill

Book Overview

Poetic paintings - works done in response to lyric poems, or else as pictorial equivalents to them - compose a major category of East Asian art. In this illustrated book James Cahill looks at three exemplary traditions in this genre, works from three very different times and places, ringing new understanding of the paintings and of the relationship between the art and the societies that produced it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674009673
• ISBN13: 9780674009677
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 10.9"