The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art

The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art
Author: Michael Sullivan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520212367

The exchange of art provides a vehicle for creative interaction between East and West, a process in which great civilizations preserve their own character while stimulating and enriching each other. Here scholar Michael Sullivan leads the reader through four centuries of exciting interaction between the artists of China and Japan and those of Western Europe. 24 color plates. 174 halftones.

European Iconography East and West

European Iconography East and West
Author: György Endre Szőnyi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789004104402

The present volume contains eighteen papers of a conference devoted to iconography and emblem studies. The essays represent the state of research and are arranged according to the following aspects: Iconography and Ideology, Iconography and History, The World of Emblems and Occult Emblematics.