Jan 1973
VOLUME 4 - NUMBER 1
Japanese Barbarian Screens
Afghanistan Oasis
The Thai Character
Mad Master Su Renshan
Yang Kuei-fei
Cover. The master of a Portuguese trading ship leads a procession of his merchant compatriots in the main street of a Japanese port city. Detail from a nanban byobu, “southern barbarian screes”, by a sixteenth-century Japanese artists. Nanban screens are an important aspect of Japanese art both for their aesthetic and historical value. Although few Japanese chronicles mention the European presence in Japan, Japanese artists painted their flamboyant guests with much fondness and attention to detail. The screen from which this detail is taken is by courtesy of the Nanban Bunka-kan, Osaka.
FEATURES
Daphne Guinness. Maharajah Palace Sojourn
Dilip Mukerjee. Pakistan After Defeat
Afghanistan: Oasis Beyond the Khyber
Karin McCaffrey. The Thai Character
The Lovely Children of Lanao LakeEar
l Wieman. Yang Kuei-fei
The Mad Master of Kwangtung
Fu Jen Di. Chinese Chess
Emilio Aguilar Cruz. Sym: Painter Without Isms
Michael Cooper. Southern Barbarian Screens
NEWS
Discoveries
VOLUME 4 - NUMBER 1
Japanese Barbarian Screens
Afghanistan Oasis
The Thai Character
Mad Master Su Renshan
Yang Kuei-fei
Cover. The master of a Portuguese trading ship leads a procession of his merchant compatriots in the main street of a Japanese port city. Detail from a nanban byobu, “southern barbarian screes”, by a sixteenth-century Japanese artists. Nanban screens are an important aspect of Japanese art both for their aesthetic and historical value. Although few Japanese chronicles mention the European presence in Japan, Japanese artists painted their flamboyant guests with much fondness and attention to detail. The screen from which this detail is taken is by courtesy of the Nanban Bunka-kan, Osaka.
FEATURES
Daphne Guinness. Maharajah Palace Sojourn
Dilip Mukerjee. Pakistan After Defeat
Afghanistan: Oasis Beyond the Khyber
Karin McCaffrey. The Thai Character
The Lovely Children of Lanao LakeEar
l Wieman. Yang Kuei-fei
The Mad Master of Kwangtung
Fu Jen Di. Chinese Chess
Emilio Aguilar Cruz. Sym: Painter Without Isms
Michael Cooper. Southern Barbarian Screens
NEWS
Discoveries
VOLUME 4 - NUMBER 1
Japanese Barbarian Screens
Afghanistan Oasis
The Thai Character
Mad Master Su Renshan
Yang Kuei-fei
Cover. The master of a Portuguese trading ship leads a procession of his merchant compatriots in the main street of a Japanese port city. Detail from a nanban byobu, “southern barbarian screes”, by a sixteenth-century Japanese artists. Nanban screens are an important aspect of Japanese art both for their aesthetic and historical value. Although few Japanese chronicles mention the European presence in Japan, Japanese artists painted their flamboyant guests with much fondness and attention to detail. The screen from which this detail is taken is by courtesy of the Nanban Bunka-kan, Osaka.
FEATURES
Daphne Guinness. Maharajah Palace Sojourn
Dilip Mukerjee. Pakistan After Defeat
Afghanistan: Oasis Beyond the Khyber
Karin McCaffrey. The Thai Character
The Lovely Children of Lanao LakeEar
l Wieman. Yang Kuei-fei
The Mad Master of Kwangtung
Fu Jen Di. Chinese Chess
Emilio Aguilar Cruz. Sym: Painter Without Isms
Michael Cooper. Southern Barbarian Screens
NEWS
Discoveries