Art & Architecture
Important Works on Japanese Art
from Oxford U. Press

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Meiji No Takara
Treasures of Imperial Japan
8-Volume Set
General Editors: OLIVER IMPEY and MALCOLM FAIRLEY

Meiji No Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan is a full, 8-volume descriptive catalogue of the Khalili Collection, one of the world's leading collections of Japanese art of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The volumes are gorgeously illustrated, individually slip-cased, and come with extensive introductory essays (in both English and Japanese) and other helpful critical material.

Full descriptive catalogue of one of the world's leading collections of Japanese art of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries

Extensively illustrated, individually slipcased
2114 pp.; 1614 color plates; 1-874780-00-5 * Due: 03/09/2000 * $4,895.00

Meiji No Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan
Volume I: Selected Essays
OLIVER IMPEY, MALCOLM FAIRLEY, JANET HUNTER, SATO DOSHIN, HIDA TOYOJIRO, GUNHILD AVITABILE, ELLEN P. CONANT, RUPERT FAULKNER, and ANNA JACKSON
General Editors: OLIVER IMPEY and MALCOLM FAIRLEY

This collection of essays by an international team of scholars provides essential background on the administrative, social, and economic, as well as the artistic, history of the Meiji period in Japan (1868-1912).
208 pp.; frontispiece, color plates throughout; 1-874780-01-3 * $270.00 (04) * slip-cased * 1999

Meiji No Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan
Volume II: Metalwork (Two volumes)
OLIVER IMPEY, MALCOLM FAIRLEY, and VICTOR HARRIS
General Editors: OLIVER IMPEY and MALCOLM FAIRLEY

This two-part volume introduces 161 examples of metalwork, from monumental bronzes more than two meters high and outsize iron salvers overlaid with gold to tiny ornaments in silver and the patinated bronze alloys known as shaukdo and shibuchi. This volume of the Collection is sold with a free copy of Volume I: Selected Essays.
504 pp.; frontispiece, numerous color plates; 1-874780-02-1* $1,439.00 (08) * slip-cased * 1999

Meiji No Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan
Volume III: Enamels
OLIVER IMPEY, MALCOLM FAIRLEY, and JACK HILLIER
General Editors: OLIVER IMPEY and MALCOLM FAIRLEY

This volume showcases the Khalili collection of cloisonn enamels, unrivaled examples of the leading artists of the period 1886-1926. The volume is sold with a free copy of Volume I: Selected Essays.
320 pp.; frontispiece, numerous color plates; 1-874780-03-X * $825.00 (08) * slip-cased * 1999


Meiji No Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan
Volume IV: Lacquer (Two parts)
GOKE TADAOMI, JULIA HUTT, and EDWARD WRANGHAM
General Editors: OLIVER IMPEY, MALCOLM FAIRLEY, and JOE EARLE

Lacquer is the most characteristically Japanese of all the arts and this two-part volume describes the pieces in the Khalili Collection. The volume is sold with a free copy of Volume I: Selected Essays.
534 pp.; frontispiece, numerous color plates; 1-874780-04-8* $1,439.00 (08) * slip-cased * 1999

Meiji No Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan
Volume V: Ceramics (Part 1: Porcelain)
OLIVER IMPEY, MALCOLM FAIRLEY, CLARE POLLARD, and VIBEKE WOLDBYE
General Editors: OLIVER IMPEY and MALCOLM FAIRLEY

This, the first of two volumes of the Khalili Collection to cover ceramics, focuses on porcelain. It is sold with a free copy of Volume I: Selected Essays.
248 pp.; frontispiece, numerous color plates; 1-874780-05-6* $825.00 (08) * slip-cased * 1999

Meiji No Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan
Volume V: Ceramics (Part II: Earthenware)
OLIVER IMPEY, MALCOLM FAIRLEY, and YAMAZAKI TSUYOSHI
General Editors: OLIVER IMPEY and MALCOLM FAIRLEY

The second of two volumes on ceramics, this book covers earthenware and focuses on another great artist-entrepreneur, Yabu Meizan (1853-1934), and illustrates 168 of his earthenwares and those of his contemporaries and imitators, minutely decorated in enamels and gold over a characteristic crackled ground. This volume of the Collection is sold with a free copy of Volume I: Selected Essays.
300 pp.; frontispiece, numerous color plates; 1-874780-06-4* $825.00 (08) * slip-cased * 1999

Masterpieces by Shibata Zeshin
Treasures of Imperial Japan
JOE EARLE and GOKE TADAOMI

Shibata Zeshin (1807-91) combined unparalleled technical skill with a highly individualized style; his paintings and lacquers are imbued with traditional humor, energy, and grace, but are fully in tune with the innovative spirit of the Meiji period. In addition to entries on each of the pieces of Zeshin in the Khalili Collection, this volume includes a biography and chronology of Zeshin's life and work, and essays on his style.

Authoritative study of one of the greatest artists of nineteenth-century Japan
Describes the finest collection of Zeshins work in the world
Extensively illustrated, slipcased
228 pp.; frontispiece, numerous color plates; 1-874780-08-0 * $595.00 (08) * slip-cased * 1999

Treasures of Imperial Japan
Ceramics from the Khalili Collection
OLIVER IMPEY and MALCOLM FAIRLEY

This is a catalogue of an exhibition being held at the National Museum of Wales.
80 pp.; 101 color, & 43 b/w illus; 1-874780-12-9 * $20.00 (04) * paper * 1999

Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 by Choice
The Early Porcelain Kilns of Japan
Arita in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
OLIVER IMPEY, Ashmolean Museum

This is the first book in English to document what Japanese porcelain was like before it was "discovered" in Europe, and thereafter made with a view to foreign, rather than Japanese, tastes. It is also the first in-depth study of the working practices of the pottery kilns of the seventeenth century. Impey assesses the individual kilns at Arita and reconstructs a detailed and fascinating picture of how these beautiful, little-known objects were made.
240 pp.; 76 color & 120 b/w plates, 8 tables, 3 maps; 0-19-826370-8 * $165.00 (04) * paper * 1996

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