Creatures Real and Imaginary in Chinese and Japanese Art
Creatures Real and Imaginary in Chinese and Japanese Art

Author: Walther G. von Krenner

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1476619581

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This guide to identifying lions, unicorns and other creatures real and fanciful in Chinese and Japanese artwork explains how these and other animal depictions were introduced to the East, and how their portrayals changed over time. Tracing the lion's early use in Mesopotamian art and its cultural symbolism in Greece and Rome, this study includes stylized foxes, tigers, badgers and cats, as well as fanciful creatures like dragons, humanoid birds, water imps, demons and other chimerical beasts. Stories and descriptions are provided along with numerous photographs and drawings, making this work an invaluable resource for art collectors and anyone interested in East Asian culture and history.

Real And Complex Singularities - Proceedings Of The Australian-japanese Workshop (With Cd-rom)
Real And Complex Singularities - Proceedings Of The Australian-japanese Workshop (With Cd-rom)

Author: Laurentiu Paunescu

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2007-01-30

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 981447598X

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The modern theory of singularities provides a unifying theme that runs through fields of mathematics as diverse as homological algebra and Hamiltonian systems. It is also an important point of reference in the development of a large part of contemporary algebra, geometry and analysis. Presented by internationally recognized experts, the collection of articles in this volume yields a significant cross-section of these developments.The wide range of surveys includes an authoritative treatment of the deformation theory of isolated complex singularities by prize-winning researcher K Miyajima. Graduate students and even ambitious undergraduates in mathematics will find many research ideas in this volume and non-experts in mathematics can have an overview of some classic and fundamental results in singularity theory. The explanations are detailed enough to capture the interest of the curious reader, and complete enough to provide the necessary background material needed to go further into the subject and explore the research literature.