This is a survey of the full range of Asian art in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which houses one of the world's foremost collections. It presents over 100 masterpieces from its extraordinary holdings which represent China, Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas and the Islamic world. The featured works introduce to the general public and scholars worldwide the quality and rich diversity of the Museum's collections. The book traces the Museum's criteria of artistic excellence over the course of a century, as well as the institution's evolving definition of the art of the Asian world. A full-page colour illustration to each of the featured works is accompanied by a commentary on the facing page.
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Southeast Asia, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Middle East, Department of Asian Art, United States, Archives of Asian Art, Central Asia, Department of Oriental Art, New York, Stewart Culin, Department of Ethnology, Northern Song, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Guennol Collection, North Africa, Pacific Islands, Western Zhou, Green Tara, Jawan Singh, Near East, Prince Yahya, Eastern Han, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Maryam Ekhtiar, Mountain Spirit New!
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Southeast Asia, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Middle East, Department of Asian Art, United States, Archives of Asian Art, Central Asia, Department of Oriental Art, New York, Stewart Culin, Department of Ethnology, Northern Song, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Guennol Collection, North Africa, Pacific Islands, Western Zhou, Green Tara, Jawan Singh, Near East, Prince Yahya, Eastern Han, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Maryam Ekhtiar, Mountain Spirit New!
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- Chinese Furniture by Craig Clunas on page 17, and page 18
- Asian Art: Including the Arts of Islam by Lark E. Mason on page 174, and Back Matter
- The Mediation of Ornament by Oleg Grabar in Back Matter
- Chinese Household Furniture by George N. Kates on page 17
- Pride of the Princes: Indian Art of the Mughal Era in the Cincinnati Art Museum by Daniel S. Walker on page 13
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