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Four Seasons In Maine: Lois Dodd's Small Plein-Air Paintings, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Alison Ferris
Four Seasons In Maine: Lois Dodd's Small Plein-Air Paintings, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Alison Ferris
Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues
"Accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, from June 22 through September 5, 2004"--P. 9
Japanese Painting And National Identity: Okakura Tenshin And His Circle, Victoria Weston
Japanese Painting And National Identity: Okakura Tenshin And His Circle, Victoria Weston
Victoria Weston
Japanese Painting and National Identity is the first monograph in English to address the art and philosophy of a group of Meiji painters regarded by many as seminal figures in the development of modern Japanese painting. Lead by the outspoken and widely published art critic Okakura Tenshin, this group, including artists Yokoyama Taikan, Shimomura Kanzan, Hishida Shunsô, and others, wrestled with the vexing problem of how to modernize traditional media, methods, and styles while keeping the results authentically Japanese. Yet they saw themselves not just as artists but as servants of the nation. Their task, they believed, was to give …