Modern masters of Kyoto
Subtitle: the transformation of Japanese painting traditions, nihonga from the Griffith and Patricia Way collection
By: Michiyo Morioka, Paul Berry.
Contributors: Berry, Paul.; Seattle Art Museum.; Seattle Asian Art Museum.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Publisher: Seattle Art Museum; Distributed by the University of Washington Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Way, Griffith -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.; Way, Patricia -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.; Painting, Japanese -- Japan -- Kyoto -- Exhibitions.; Painting, Japanese -- 1868- -- Exhibitions.; Painters -- Japan -- Kyoto -- Biography.; Painting -- Private collections -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.; Biography.
Description: "In a series of intertwined narratives, Porcelain Stories explores porcelain's beginnings in China around A.D. 600, then follows its diverse developments as a new and fashionable commodity within China and throughout Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. The book recounts the ingenious achievements of Chinese porcelain and its worldwide impact through trade, where in the West, it spurred a mania for collecting and an urgent quest seeking the formula for and process of creating porcelain.".

"Cultural and stylistic interchange between East and West is the other main focus of these stories. They place porcelain objects in the context of their times and cultures, retracing porcelain's technological, aesthetic, and commercial evolution over twelve centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-326) and index.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Seattle Asian Art Muesum, Aug. 19, 1999-Feb.13, 2000; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Apr. 13-July 31, 2000 and organized by the Seattle Art Museum.