History
中国漆器全集(1):先秦陈振裕 Complete works of Chinese lacquer ware Vol.1: Pre-Qin
Fujian Meishu 福建美术, 2002. HB. More
The Arts of Collecting: Padre Sebastiano Resta and the Market for Drawings in Early Modern Europe
Cambridge University Press, 2000. The Arts of Collecting: Padre Sebastiano Resta and the Market for Drawings in Early Modern Europe examines the collecting of art works through an anthropological examination of modes of exchange and the social roles of material culture. Warwick illuminates a crucial chapter in the history of..... More
The Corbaccio or the Labyrinth of Love
Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1993. More
西亚考古史 History of Archaeology of Western Asia (1842-1939)
Peking University Publication Series, 2002. More
Ancient Books and Records of Qing Dynasty
Forbidden City Publishing House, 2000. More
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period opened, the Empire's southern provinces—the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean—were at the crossroads of trade routes..... More
Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora
Civitas Books, 2010. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline's roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory, Gates leaps from Richard Wright..... More
History of History
"A very personal, whimsical exhibition by this well-known Japanese photographer that incorporates his own work with artifacts that he has collected over the years... as packed with goodies as the princely assemblages of art and curiosities brought together by European nobles in the 16th and 17th centuries." - Grace Glueck..... More
Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China
University of Washington Press, 2010. Hardcover. Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China is the first book in any language devoted to the art of imperial women in China. Utilizing a wide range of historical sources and materials, this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study pieces together a lost history of female..... More
Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730–1820
John Hopkins University Press. Spoken words come alive in written verse. In Sounding Imperial, James Mulholland offers a new assessment of the origins, evolution, and importance of poetic voice in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By examining a series of literary experiments in which authors imitated oral voices..... More
Fierce: The History of Leopard Print
2018. In this lush compendium illustrated with full-color images, the author of The Burlesque Handbook chronicles the history of one of the world’s most beloved fashion patterns—leopard print—celebrating its beauty and place in couture, and the women who have dared to wear it. In nature, the distinctive markings on..... More
A Voyage to Cochinchina
Kuala Lumpar: Oxford University Press. First Edition. With an Introduction by Milton Osborne. More
From Bombay to Shanghai - Van Bombay tot Shanghai - Historical Photography in South and Southeast Asia
Museum voor Volkenkunde, 1994. This book is the catalogue to an exhibition which appeared in 1994-95, presented by the Dutch Museum of Ethnology. It is a collection of photographs made of South and Southeast Asia in the 19th century. A fascinating history, the book documents the Asian world of a...... More
Island People: The Caribbean and the World
A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region’s common heritage to its fierce grip on the world’s imagination..... More
Trade Taste And Transformation: Jingdezhen Porcelain For Japan, 1620-1645
China Institute, 2006. In the final decades of the Ming dynasty, the potters of Jingdezhen produced blue-and-white porcelain, kosometsuke, and an underglaze-blue and polychrome porcelain ware, ko’akae, for the Japanese market, particularly for use in the popular tea ceremony. Chinese decorative themes and manufacturing standards were transformed to accommodate traditional..... More
In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Literary and Social Contexts for Women’s Writing (Volume 11) (Other Voice - Toronto Series)
ACMRS Publications, 2011. This excellent collection of essays and texts surveys the culture and intellectual context of early modern Italy in order to render more intelligible the writing of Italian women. The role of women in society and the persistent misogyny even of the most pro-woman texts are explored in..... More
Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts)
Yale University Press. Art history, aesthetics, and visual studies today find themselves in contested new philosophical and institutional circumstances. This fascinating and challenging volume explores the connections and differences among these three methods of investigating visual representation. What are the dominant aesthetic assumptions underlying art historical inquiry? How have..... More
Irrational Judgments: Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and 1960s New York
Yale University Press, 2017. An intimate study of the friendship and creative dialogue between two artists, offering an in-depth understanding of their work and the upheavals of 1960s New York Irrational Judgments examines the close friendship and significant exchange of ideas between Eva Hesse (1936–1970) and Sol LeWitt (1928–2007)..... More
Taiwan: Studies In Chinese Local History
Columbia University Press, 1970. HB. Brief history of Taiwan in the 19th century. More
明代宫廷戏剧史 Mingdai gongting xiju shi Ming Dynasty Palace Drama History
Forbidden City Publishing House, 2011. This book is the first ever to specialize in the history of court drama in Ming dynasty in China's Academic History. More
Vernacular Poetics in the Middle Ages (Studies in Medieval Culture)
Medieval Institute Publications, 1984. This volume deals with the attitudes and assumptions about poetry of vernacular writers from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. In contrast to most previous studies, the essays consider not only the formal poetics, but, more importantly, the self-conscious examination of poetry which is increasingly evident..... More
Confucius: His Life And Legacy In Art
China Institute, 2010. A landmark exhibition on the extraordinary philosopher, statesman and teacher known as Confucius (551- 479 BCE) is on view at China Institute Gallery from February 11 through June 13, 2010. Confucius is one of the most influential teachers in history, and his teachings are deeply rooted in..... More
Ink Plum: The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre
Cambridge University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Ink plum (momei) has been one of the most admired and widely practised genres of ink painting in China, Japan and Korea throughout the last six hundred years. In this study, the first full account of momei, Maggie Bickford provides a comprehensive account of genre-formation..... More