Scientific analyses and detailed photographs reveal both how the pieces were cast and pieced together in antiquity and how they were restored in the eighteenth century

Richard Wolbers

the art dealer David Croal Thomson

"In taking on every significant issue attendant on our understanding of this painting

Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State: The Politics of Beauty Murua Scientific analyses and detailed photographsDshin Sat Translated by Hiroshi Nara This broad ranging and profoundly influential analysis describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late nineteenth century. In the 1870s and 1880s, artists, government administrators, and others in Japan encountered the Western "system of the arts" for the first time, as objects and information from Japan reached European and American audiences following the collapse of