East Asian Art and American Culture by Warren I. Cohen ISBN 13: 9780231076449

Columbia University Press, 1992-04-15. hardcover. Used: Good.

Columbia University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Ink signature and date else near new condition, covers bright, text clean and binding tight in a like dust jacket.. 264pp., illus.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. First printing. 8vo. 264 pp. Black cloth. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine.

Columbia University Press, 1992-04-15. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New. This is a discussion of the contribution and effects of East Asian art on American culture. Warren Cohen portrays the assembling of the great American collections of East Asian art and explains how this art became part of the cultural consciousness of the people of the USA, transforming their culture into something more complex than the Western civilization brought from Europe. Cohen tells of art collectors, dealers and historians, of museums and curators, of art and imperialism, art and politics, and art as an instrument of foreign policy. The book demonstrates how art collecting interacts with international politics and business. The recent decline in American economic power, the author argues, was first obvious in the art world when American collectors found themselves unable to compete with their Japanese and Hong Kong counterparts.

Columbia Univ Pr, 1992. Hardcover. New. 264 pages. 9.00x6.50x1.00 inches.

Columbia Univ Pr, 1992. Hardcover. New. 264 pages. 9.00x6.50x1.00 inches.