Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art

By John T. Carpenter

Book Overview

The distinctive style of Japanese art known as Rinpa embraces bold, graphic renderings of natural motifs and formalized depictions of fictional characters, poets, and sages. An aesthetic that arose in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300184999
• ISBN13: 9780300184990
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.5" x 10.8"