Japanese Modern Art: Painting from 1910 to 1970

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Summary: "Must" reading for students of modern Japanese art.
Review: Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter's Japanese Modern Art covers Japanese painting from 1910-1970, featuring over a hundred works by almost thirty Japanese artists and providing the first extensive documentation of the development of Japanese painting into a unique form of modernism. Works are presented with essays by art historians and cover the basics of how art has reflected changes in Japanese traditions.