VIOLETS BETWEEN CHERRY BLOSSOMS

This richly illustrated comparative study of art across cultures looks at the transference of specific images and tropes throughout Eurasia from Rome to Tokyo. Starting in the early fifth century BCE, when the well-established Greek influence in Black Seaarea art spread to China, P. L. W. Arts looks at the cultural flow from West to East up to the present day. Cutting across wide swathes of t he continent, including the Mediterranean Sea, Iran, Afghanistan, northern India, parts of Central Asia, and Japan, Violets between Cherry Blos...[Llegir més]