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The art of Asia: the centenary of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts

The art of Asia: the centenary of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts
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ISBN 6155987084 (hardcover)
9786155987083 (hardcover)
Title The art of Asia : the centenary of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts / edited by Györgyi Fajcsák
Publisher Budapest : Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts, 2019
Physical desc. 347 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Note Published on the occasion of an exhibition titled Made in Asia: the centenary of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts, held 14 June 2019 to 14 May 2020, at the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts, Budapest.
Gift of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts, Budapest.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 'The art of the East is cosmic, and for that reason symbolic...': the centenary of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts / Györgyi Fajcsák -- 'Those who think symbolically are necessarily dependent of traditions': the Chinese collection / Györgyi Fajcsák -- '...we may speak of independent Korean art. And we must speak of it': the Korean collection / Virág Hársvölgyi -- '...every purchase of an artwork is a lesson in art history...': the Japanese collection / Mirjam Dénes -- 'Perfect contemplation reaching the state of unworldliness': the Tibetan and Nepalese collection / Béla Kelényi -- 'After all, it is not really art that they are practicing but it is a religious activity...': the Mongolian collection / Tímea Windhoffer -- 'It is impossible not to pay homage to this creative spirit': the Indian collection / Róbert Válóczi -- '...here Art (with capital letter) is still one and undivided...': the Southeast Asian collection / Vera Brittig -- '...we may consider it one of the most powerful styles of art, one that conquered even more territory than the religion in whose wake it spread': the Middle Eastern collection / Péter Tamás Nagy -- 'My ultimate aim, after all, was simply to guide the attention of my homeland's professional circles more firmly towards the memory of those areas that I deemed important...': the Zichy collection / Krisztina Hoppál -- '...about those things deemed not worth knowing...': the Hopp Museum Archive / Tatjána Kardos -- 'We have to know the whole Asia Minor to decipher its real meaning': the Library.
Person as subject Hopp, Ferenc -- 1833-1919
Corporate name Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum (Hungary) -- History
Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum (Hungary) -- Exhibitions
Added name(s) Fajcsák, Györgyi
Added name(s) - Corporate Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum (Hungary)
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