RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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of material on Oriental art at the Fogg Art
Museum during the three-year period beginning
July 1, 1935. It is hoped that relations which
have already been established between Harvard
University and the Institute of Art Research in
Tokyo will be further strengthened by this plan
for facilitating the study of Japanese art in this
country. The aim is to render more readily accessible
to Western scholars all works on Far
Eastern art written by scholars in the Orient,
through the preparation of translations, abstracts,
and reports of work in progress. The
work will include the preparation of indexes of
certain Japanese periodicals dealing with Far
Eastern art and the compilation of bibliographies
and chronological lists not now
available in
Western languages. The result will be the production
of a permanent and fundamental body
of source material for workers in the field.
The Harvard collection of documented photographs
of Oriental art has reached the total of
11,750 items and its illustrated publications include
the great bulk of Japanese, Chinese, and
European monographs and periodicals that deal
with this subject. From another source are provided
funds for further purchases for at least
two more years, as well as salaries for librarians
who
will continue to mount and annotate the
materials that have accumulated. The Japanese
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