China Institute, 2001. In this study of Southern Song fans and album leaves, the beautiful landscape of the West Lake environs and the cultural life of the imperial capital, Hangzhou, emerge as key factors in the art of the period. Natural wonders, temples, and palatial settings are identified in both..... More
Institute of Chinese Buddhist Culture. Hardcover. 書法是建立在漢字基礎上的藝術，除了其線條、布白的藝術美之外，內外更含有一定的思想，反映人們的審美與精神境界，藉以抒發內心的懷抱及理想。通過筆、墨、紙，印章構成黑、白、紅色的抽象化、符號化的藝術作品，經由文字交流，最能直接道出人生哲學意味，為東方藝術的精髓，在教化作用上有其獨特之處。 四十年前，中國佛教協會成立之初，便向全國佛教徒提出「莊嚴國土，利樂有情」的號召，希望佛教徒不僅致力於物質的文明，更當發揚國民的精神素養，今藉著「中國佛教文化出版有限公司」出版的《佛教嘉言書法集》，正好通過諸書法家的墨寶來從事「莊嚴國土，利樂有情」的事業。 《佛教嘉言書法集》選編了佛教經、論、語錄中有益於修身處世的嘉言一百零八條，分別恭請六十一位當代書法家書寫，其中有年逾九十的長者，有任務繁重的教授和專家等，難得他們都欣然命筆，透過豐富多采的書法藝術，表現佛教教義的內涵和人生哲理。 書中配以簡潔文字，清楚介紹各書法家及嘉言出處，令讀者賞玩書法之餘，又領悟修身養性的哲理，淨化心靈。本書於一九九三年榮獲「香港最佳印製書籍獎」。 Calligraphy is an art based on Chinese characters. In addition to the artistic beauty of its lines and white cloth, it also contains certain ideas inside and outside, reflecting people's aesthetic and..... More
Scala Publishers, 2009. More
Cornell University Press, 2008. We spend a great deal of time learning our vocations and avocations as we work at jobs, participate in home life, and take part in civic activities and politics. In doing so, we engage in practices that consist of complex bodies of norms. These practices themselves..... More
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
One of Chicago's premier art patrons and an architecture and interior design critic, Judith Neisser has amassed a remarkable collection of international contemporary art. More than 100 works are presented in this captivating, inside look at the Neisser family collection, highlighting paintings, sculpture, and works on paper from the 1960s..... More
Verso, 2003. More
Princeton University Art Museum, 2009. The art world is currently enthralled with contemporary Chinese art. This thoughtful book argues, however, that American audiences have been exposed only to a narrow range of what is available―with the majority of attention having been given to “avant-garde,” “experimental,” or politically charged art. Outside..... More
This catalogue describes bronzes dating from the Shang (c. 1700-c. 1050 BC), the Western Zhou (c. 1050-771 BC), the Eastern Zhou (770-221 BC), and the Han (206 BC-AD 220) periods. The majority of the bronzes are ritual vessels, but some weapons, ornamental fittings and mirrors are also included. Ancient China..... More
Distanz, 2011. China is undergoing rapid economic and sociocultural transformation. Between the euphoria of unchecked economic advancement, frenzied modernization, and the concomitant fear that the country’s identity will be lost, art charts new and individual paths. Ji Dachun (b. Nantong, China, 1968; lives and works in Beijing) has..... More
Hardcover. A moving, vividly rendered novel from the late author of The Basketball Diaries. When poet, musician, and diarist Jim Carroll died in September 2009, he was putting the finishing touches on a potent work of fiction. The Petting Zoo tells the story of Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic thirty-..... More
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
Indiana University Press, 2013. Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume include artists..... More
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. An introduction to the textile weavings of southwestern Native Americans, the narrative history and color illustrations trace the development of weaving among the Pueblo, Navajo, and Hopi, and the Spanish colonists who settled in the Rio Grande. The reproductions of sarapes, blankets, and clothing will..... More
Columbia University Press, 2004. John Holt's groundbreaking study examines the assimilation, transformation, and subordination of the Hindu deity Visnu within the contexts of Sri Lankan history and Sinhala Buddhist religious culture. Holt argues that political agendas and social forces, as much as doctrinal concerns, have shaped the shifting patterns of..... More
2009. This important book showcases institutional and private efforts to collect, document, and preserve African American art in American’s fourth largest city, Houston, Texas. Eminent historian John Hope Franklin’s essay reveals his passionate commitment to collect African American art, while curator Alvia J. Wardlaw discusses works by Robert S. Duncanson..... More
Quarterman Publications, Inc., 1989. More
Power Publications, 2011. Technologies of Magic charts curious territory--a place occupied by both machines and magic. This collection of essays investigates the co-existence of very old forms of thought--belief in ghosts, magic, spirits--and contemporary culture. Refracted through highly technologised societies, magic manifests itself in surprising ways and through a diverse..... More
Verso, 2015. Since the decidedly bleak beginning of the twenty-first century, art practice has become increasingly politicized. Yet few have put forward a sustained defence of this development. Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde is the first book to look at the legacy of the avant-garde in relation to the deepening..... More
University of Washington Press, 2011. Recognized in Japan as a connoisseur, collector, and proprietor of a famous folk art shop in Tokyo, Tawara Yusaku returned to painting late in life and had a single show in London before his death in 2004. Universe Is Flux is the first examination of..... More
2000: China Institute. The harmonious integration of painting, poetry, and calligraphy has been an accomplishment of Chinese art since the literati painters of the Song dynasty. This idea of painting and poetry as “sister arts” is explored in works by various artists from Wang Wei of the Tang dynasty, considered..... More
New York: Picador, 2017. A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American..... More
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
2018. A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize–winning “Undocumented Alien” The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in..... More
