The Spirit of Man in Asian Art (Art Ebook).pdf

The Spirit of Man in Asian Art
Dover Publications | 1965 | English | 324 pages | PDF | 25.6 MB

Art, the author contends, is the only record that preserves the intense experience of human joy, and as such, it is a true expression of the spirit of man. In his beautifully written study of Asian art, Laurence Binyon finds this spirit expressed in early Chinese bronzes, Indian frescoes at Ajanta and Bagh, Chinese landscape paintings, Persian manuscript illustrations, and Japanese roll paintings