“Object as Insight” was the accompanying publication to a landmark exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art which was conceived and designed to introduce American audiences to both the ritual context and the artistic significance of Japanese Buddhist art. Never before in the Western world had such a comprehensive selection of Japanese Buddhist ritual objects been brought together and displayed in the contextual environment for which they were created. The exhibition was co-curated by Anne Nishimura Morse, Associate Curator of Fine Arts, Asia Department, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Samuel Crowell Morse, Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Amherst College. It traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

This fine exhibition catalog contains important essays by the curators and other scholars. The many illustrations, in both black-and-white and color, are accompanied by detailed descriptions. This catalog accompanied an important loaned exhibition of paintings, metalwork, calligraphy, statues, textiles and other ritual objects. Five years of original research culminated in this definitive exhibition of Japanese Buddhist art. Objects came from some of the most important museum and private collections in America, Europe, and Japan. This is a most important reference work on the subject of Japanese Buddhist art.

CONDITION is excellent; the book is brand new. DIMENSIONS: 9” (23 cm) x 11” (28 cm).