Period's

During the Heian period's initial stages, the imperial court completely devoted itself to imitating Chinese culture, however during the midst of the period, a culture based off of Japanese sense of beauty began to bloom.

Houdon lived in a time of intellectual ferment in both Europe and America, and his work focussed on some of the period's leading citizens.

Postmodernism is the period after modernism and that period's collective output.