The Face of the Buddha

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Taking up a teaching appointment in Tokyo in 1931, the English poet and literary critic William Empson found himself captivated by the Buddhist sculptures of ancient Japan, and spent the years that followed in search of similar examples all over Korea, China, Cambodia, Burma, India, and Ceylon, as well as in the great museums of the West. Compiling the results of these wide-ranging travels into what he considered to be one of his most important works,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199659672

ISBN13:9780199659678

Release Date:August 2016

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 7.5" x 9.7"

Related Subjects

Art Arts, Music & Photography Literary Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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