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DIC's art books for Kulturbanausen

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  The Japanese chemical company  DIC Corporation , formerly Dainippon Ink & Chemicals, is the owner of an art museum,  Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art . The founding family was very interested in art and bought many drawings and sculptures. To make sure that other people can also enjoy these works they founded a museum, the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art.  If you have the opportunity to visit the Tokyo area, try to find time to visit this museum. It is located about half an hour away from Tokyo but it can be easily accessed by train and bus (see the homepage for details).  In the same town is also the  National Museum of Japanese History , visit this one too if you go to the Kawamura museum. The founding family did more for spreading art. As they were also the CEO of the company, they published art books for the 60th, 70th, 80th and 90th anniversary of the company and gave each employee such a book. From left to the right: 1) Art of Contemporary Japan ...

Random links 1: Japanese Art (and Chinese and ...)

The auction catalogues of Kogire-Kai are published on issue.com: LINK The newest is the 98th. A good chance to see a lot of Asian art at one place. A book about Chinese ornaments is re-published digitally at the French National Library and at archive.org: LINK FNL LINK archive Examples of Chinese Ornament selected from Objects  in the  South Kensington Museum and Other Collections Owen Jones  1867