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INTRODUCTIONIn these lectures I propose to consider certain significant phases, certain pregnant moments, in the arts of the various countries of the continent of Asia.I cannot of course attempt anything like a survey of the entire field; nor shall I approachthe subject from an archaeological or historical or technical point of view. Rather I wish to show, if I can, — and I think this is more consonant with the object of the Professorship with which I have been honoured, — how the spirit of man, whether in China or India, in Persia or Japan, has expressed through creative art its relation to the world and to the universe; to suggest the likenesses and contrasts between these arts and the arts of Western countries, the reactions of the arts of the various races of Asiaon each other, and the specific virtue in the contribution of each of them to the whole. Perhaps by the way we may be led to enquire into the nature of art itself.

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Author

Binyon, Laurence

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1935

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674730212

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, History & Criticism, Humanities