Learning & Teaching the Arts of East Asia – Recommended Books

Highly Recommended

There are 2 books that are highly recommended as background reading for this series:

Asian Art, by Dorina Neave, Lara C. Blanchard, and Marika Sandar [Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2015]
Includes sections on South Asia and SE Asia, for your reference also. Winner of the Franklin Buchanan Prize for Outstanding Curriculum Resource, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies, Committee on Teaching about Asia.

Teaching East Asian Art: Content, Context, and Pedagogy, edited by Sheng Kuan Chung [NAEA, 2012]
Choose among the 35 short articles, with visuals, those which interest you.

Other Books

How to Look at Japanese Art, by Stephen Addiss [NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1996]

How to Read Chinese Paintings, by Maxwell K, Hearn [NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008]