"Tokyo: Form And Spirit" 1986 FRIEDMAN, Mildred [editor]

FRIEDMAN, Mildred [editor]

[256] pp.

Walker Art Center/ Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers

1986

12 1/8" x 9 1/4"

Essays and commentaries by (among others) Rand Castile, Yuichiro Kojiro, Donald Richie, Johei Sasaki, Marc Treib, Richard Danziger, Mark Holborn, Amy Reigle Newland, Gail Y. Okawa, and Emily Sano. Covers the entire spectrum of Japanese art from the Tokugawa period (or 1603, when Edo, now Tokyo, became the capital) to the present. Works of art are discussed in relation to the exhibition's themes of everyday life: walking; working; home life, including toys and hobbies; and important influences such as sky and water.