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Identifier: historyofar02faur (find matches)
Title: History of art
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Faure, Elie, 1873-1937 Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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ious and hieratic art, which always correspondswith a well-defined society, could not survive the feudalanarchy that preceded the Mongol invasion. In pro-portion as the remembrance of the teachings fromabroad was obliterated, the great traditions declinedin the monasteries. Civil wars rent the country.Religion lost its original freshness to become an instru-ment of political domination. While, to the eyes ofthe people, the Mikado still represented the old Shin-toism of their ancestors, the Shogunate, supported bythe pretorians, was opposing Buddhism to the tradi-tional cult. Sculpture obeyed the laws of dissociation ^ M. Edouard Chavannes has already indicated the analogy that existsbetween the statues of Unkei and the guardians of the gates of the grottoesof Long-Men. See figures on pages 07 and 113. The evidence is clear.How did the Japanese sculptors come to know these colossuses? Doubtlessit was because China exported bronzes and wood carvings that were directlyinspired from them.
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Unkei (xii Century). Guardian of the temple.(VArt du Japon, publ. by Brunoff.) 114 MEDIEVAL ART dictated by the state of society. It overloaded itselfwith incrustations, complicated itself with draperies,and, when it lost the calm of its lines, it lost the wholeof its spirituality. It is only in the seventeenth cen-tury, when the painted wooden effigies of monks wereerected, that among the severe profiles united by

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  • bookauthor:Faure__Elie__1873_1937
  • bookauthor:Pach__Walter__1883_1958
  • booksubject:Art
  • bookpublisher:New_York_and_London___Harper___brothers
  • bookcontributor:PIMS___University_of_Toronto
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