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Painting in the Far East : an introduction to the history of pictorial art in Asia especially China and Japan (1913)

Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943 · New York : Longmans, Green · leaf 220

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circle and in theemptiness of background and surrounding—theworld has fallen away, does not exist, for that isola-tion, in which prayer is a state even more than anact of the soul. As a painting this picture is of strange beauty,with its unfretted simplicity of design, its delicacyof drawing, its… … THE KAMAKURA EPOCH as it is still more different from that of Europeanpainting. It is a new, rare flower in the worldsart. We pass from Nobuzane to the fourth greatmaster of the period : Keion. The existence ofthis artist has been denied, I do not know uponwhat grounds. He is said to have…

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