The Art of Asia Across Space and Time

On the occasion of the opening of the new permanent exhibition The Art of Asia: Across Space and Time, the National Gallery in Prague presents an accompanying catalogue that will showcase artworks from NGP’s collections traversing the regions of Japan, Korea, China, Tibet, India, southeast Asia, and the Islamic world. The publication explores fundamental topics related to the collecting of Asian art and the reception of the art of Asian cultures in the Czech lands from the 17th to the mid-20th centuries, i.e. until the period that preceded the founding of the National Gallery’s collection of Asian art in 1951. The publication and the exhibition together offer a global approach to the interpretation of art history, interconnecting contexts across time and specific cultural regions of Asia and the Islamic world and confronting art historical Eurocentrism.