The Art of Law: Three Centuries of Justice Depicted
Lannoo Publishers, 2016. More
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The Body as Protest
Hatje Cantz, 2012. "Body as Protest" highlights the photographic representation of the human body as a radical expression of protest against social, political and aesthetic norms. Centering on a series by John Coplans, it also includes works by Hannah Wilke, Ketty La Rocca, Hannah Villiger, Bruce Nauman, Robert Mapplethorpe and..... More
Inspired By Dunhuang: Re-creation In Contemporary Chinese Art
China Institute, 2013. Like the old masters before them, modern and contemporary luminaries, such as Zhang Daqian, Zhang Hongtu, Liu Jude, Liu Dan, and Yu Hong, have sought inspiration from Dunhuang’s ancient sculptures and murals. Inspired by Dunhuang presents the breathtaking results of their painstaking and creative efforts, which capture..... More
Passion For The Mountains: Seventeenth Century Landscape Paintings From The Nanjing Museum
China Institute, 2003. In the seventeenth century, the city of Nanjing, known in ancient times as Jinling, played an important role in what is seen as the last great florescence of landscape paintings in Chinese art. This catalog explores the influence of the region’s physical environment, as well as its..... More
On Chinese Art: Cases and Concepts (Volume 2 Prehistoric to Han)
2018. About this Series: Consisting of three volumes, On Chinese Art features 56 essays (presented as chapters) written by the art historian Wu Hung after he moved to the United States in the 1980s. Selected by the author himself, these essays have been organized in a format that emphasizes..... More
The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China
University of Chicago Press, 2019. Casebound. From the 1980s, many Chinese artists have experimented with a range of unconventional materials. Their works—in plastic, paper, silk, ash, and tobacco—form a major trend in Chinese art. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name, The Allure of Matter offers the first..... More
The First Guangzhou Triennial - Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000)
Art Media Resources, Inc., 2002. Published to coincide with the First Guangzhou Triennial (opening November 18, 2002), this volume provides a systematic description and analysis of Chinese experimental art and cinema of the 90s, the subject of the Triennial. This volume consists of three parts: Part One provides an overview..... More
Xin quan: Lin Xia shi ji / Journey of the heart
Art Media Resources, Inc., 1994. Published by Art Media Resources & Brushwork Gallery. Poetry by the Taiwanese immigrant Chuang (in Chinese), illustrated with paintings by Leong, who taught at San Francisco State. More
The Fable of Life: Oil Paintings by Zhong Biao 1994-1996, 生命寓言: 鐘飆油畫
Schoeni Art Gallery. This is the exhibition catalogue of Zhong Biao’s one-man show at Schoeni Gallery in Hong Kong. In his works we find a montage of myth and reality, of modernism and traditionalism, and of present and history. One contributor explains this deliberate mixture of classical furniture, cityscape, advertisement..... More
Zhou B Art Center: Journey of Dreams
Chicago: Zhou B Art Center, 2014. First Edition. This publication was produced in conjunction with the Zhou B Art Center 10 Years of Art Innovation Anniversary Celebration. More
Field Report from the Kangjin Qingci Kiln Site - 1992 康津青磁窯址1992
1992. Written in Mandarin and Korean. Published by Jeollanam-do / Kangjin-gun (全羅南道・康津郡他). More
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Views of Difference: Different Views of Art (Art and Its Histories Series)
Yale University Press, 1999. In a fascinating series of case studies, this book looks at the ways in which European colonizers interpreted the arts of the people they colonized, as well the ways in which they have tended to view art produced by the colonized and their descendants in post-colonial..... More
Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea
Yale University Press, 2010. Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world’s most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was oriented toward inland centers and preoccupied with the blood of royal lineage and..... More
Contemporary Paintings of Malaysia
National Art Gallery, 1988. The contemporary art movement in Malaysia began about 35 years ago and has produced many fine artists. This catalogue presents 41 of the leading contemporary artists of Malaysia. More
Yan Yanping
Palettle, 2004. Text in English and Chinese. More
Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti
University of California Press, 2013. In the late nineteenth century Tahiti embodied Western ideas of an earthly Paradise, a primitive utopia distant geographically and culturally from the Gilded Age or Belle Epoque. Stimulated by fin de siècle longings for the exotic, a few adventurous artists sought out this Eden on..... More
Influence of Japanese Art on Design
Gibbs-Smith Publisher. During America's Gilded Age (dates), the country was swept by a mania for all things Japanese. It spread from coast to coast, enticed everyone from robber barons to street vendors with its allure, and touched every aspect of life from patent medicines to wallpaper. Americans of the time..... More
He Xiangyu
Distanz, 2016. He Xiangyu (b. Dandong, Liaoning Province, 1986; lives and works in Beijing and Berlin) belongs to a new generation of Chinese conceptual artists who use a variety of media to articulate their cultural and social concerns. His ambitious and provocative works have quickly brought him international renown. In..... More
The Way of Taiko
Stone Bridge Press, 2013. "Packs a punch with gorgeous photographs, a brief history of taiko drumming, drums and accompanying instruments used in taiko, costumes, drumming techniques, and glossary. . . . A great introduction."—WorldMusicCentral.org Japanese taiko drumming, an ancient sacred harvest-time practice, has evolved into a form of mental..... More
Japanese Masterworks: Paintings from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (English and Japanese Edition)
Japanese Masterworks offers a survey of Japanese painting spanning 600 years (the 1300s to early 1900s) and including almost all of the major genres and styles. Especially important are paintings -- hanging scrolls and folding screens -- by many of the best-known artists of the Edo period (1615-1868). The..... More
Delacroix
Bellagio Press, 2014. Eugène Delacroix was highly influential in the 19th century Romanticism art movement and is considered by many art historians to be the most important of the Romantic painters. Delacroix is often attributed with refining Romanticism, not only aesthetically but philosophically, as his work influenced not only art..... More
Heritage of the Brush: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting
Phoenix Art Museum. More
Make Trouble
2017. From an icon of popular culture, here is inspiring advice for artists, graduates, and all who seek happiness and success on their own terms. So what if you have talent? Then what? When John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island..... More