Art Media Resources, Inc. 10.5 x 12", 196 pp., color frontispiece, 108 color plates, bibliography, index of names and words, list of plates, cloth, d.j., Chicago, 2004. Cosmology is one of the subjects that are dealt with already in the old Jaina treatises composed in Middle Indian languages. Transmitted by... More about Jain Cosmology
Art Media Resources, Inc. Softcover. 6 x 9", reprint of the 1952 edition, frontispiece, 230 pp., 20 b/w plates, paper, Chicago, 2001. This is a long-awaited reprint of the major work first published in 1952. China's Dragon Robes is a scholarly survey of the dragon-patterned robes worn by nobles and... More about China's Dragon Robes
Chinese Art Auction Records, 2018. 6.75 x 9.25", approx. 500 pp., more than 500 color illustrations, text in English and Chinese, paper, Taipei, 2018. This volume compiles year 2017 auction results from auction houses around the world, including Christie's (worldwide), Sotheby's (worldwide), China Guardian, Bonhams & Butterfield, among others. Divided... More about 拍卖年鉴: 骨董 2018: 2017.1.1 - 2017.12.31<br>Chinese Arts Auction Records: 2018...
Endeavour. When picturing the infamous French Revolution most of us think of the guillotine, the mass execution, the terror. E.D. Bradby shows us the other side to the rebellion: the grand ideas. Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Bradby's portrayal of figures like Robespierre, who had come to be viewed as a butcher..... More about A Short History of the French Revolution
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 about He Xiangyu
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 about Delacroix
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 about Ji Dachun: Bird Painting without Bird
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Mourning Glory sheds light on troubled times as it shows how passion and prejudice, grief and denial all contributed to the continuing creation of a revolutionary legacy that still affects our understanding of the nature of language and history. More about Mourning Glory: The Will of the French Revolution (Critical Authors and Issues
George Brazillier. 14.4 x 12.8", 232 pp., 13 gatefold pages, 120 color plates (60 of which are four-color plus gold), 17 b/w illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index, cloth, d.j., New York, 1990. (As new) **Due to its size and weight, the shipping cost is $9.95(USA address) and $25.00 (non-USA address). This... More about Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting
Privately Printed, 10/31/20. TWO VOLUMES, 9.5 x 11 in, 480 pages total, hardcover w/slipcase, 203 pieces illustrated, six color printing, text in English and Chinese. Hong Kong 2005. **Due to its size and weight, the shipping cost is $10.95 (USA address) and $59.95 (non-USA address). Attracted by the form, solid... More about Chinese Furniture: The Hung Collection (2 Volumes
Art Media Resources, Inc. Hardcover. 9 x 11", 128 pp., 40 color and 75 b/w illustrations, cloth, d.j., Chicago, 2002. In 1945 much of urban Japan lay in ruins, the land occupied by foreign powers for the first time in the country's history. To many Japanese it seemed that everything... More about Japanese Prints During the Allied Occupation 1945-1952: Onchi Koshiro, Ernst Hacker and the First...
University of California Press, 2009. Second Edition. Dictée is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictée is the story of several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Demeter..... More about Dictée
Grove Press. The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a.... More about The Sympathizer
University of Washington Press, 2008. Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall brings together ten versions of a popular Chinese legend that has intrigued readers and listeners for hundreds of years. Elements of the story date back to the early centuries B.C.E. and are an intrinsic part of Chinese literary..... More about Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall
Art Media Resources, Inc., 2019. Essays in Chinese on feminine space. According to Wu Hung, feminine space denotes an actual or imaginary space, which is perceived and represented as a woman. A feminine space is a spatial entity — an artificial world comprised of landscape, vegetation, architecture, atmosphere, climate, color... More about 中国绘画中的“女性空间”<br>Feminine Space in Chinese Painting
Art Media Resources, Inc., 2016. Cloth. 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... More about On Chinese Art: Cases and Concepts (Volume 1: Methodological Reflections
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 about On Chinese Art: Cases and Concepts Vol.II Prehistoric to Han
Chronicle Books. Yoko Ono created An Invisible Flower when she was just nineteen years old, at the very start of her artistic career. Recently rediscovered in her archive by her son, Sean Lennon, who also provides a foreword, this jewel of a book tells the heartwarming story of the invisible... More about An Invisible Flower
Privately Printed. 11.6 x 11.6", 107 pp.,83 color illustrations, notes, bibliography, hardcover, Brussels, 2002. Coromandel is an area of the east coast of India between the Godava River and Nagapatnam. Contrary to what its name implies, Coromandel lacquer does not come from this region but from China. Although almost all... More about Coromandel Lacquer Screens
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Hardcover with Slipcase. 9.75 x 13.5", 2 Volumes, 1184 pp., 592 objects illustrated, 270 color and 330 b/w illustrations, cloth, d.j., Minneapolis, 2000. **Due to its size and weight (4.5 inches thick; 19 pounds), the shipping & handling charges are $25.00(USA addresses) and $75.00 (non-USA addresses)... More about Imperial Silks: Ch'ing Dynasty Textiles in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (2 Volumes
Parkstone Press Ltd. 6 x 9", 95 pp., fully illustrated in color, index, references, illustrated boards, d.j., Ho Chi Minh City, 2004. Opium was as important to world trade and politics as petrol is today. The Opium Wars forced China to give trading rights to Western companies, allowing opium to... More about The Mystique of Opium
Grace Wu Bruce. Hardcover with Slipcase. 9.2 x 12.2", 216 pp., 106 color plates, cloth, slipcase, Hong Kong, 2000. This volume presents the amazing Lu Ming Shi Collection, which comprises 71 examples of huanghuali and zitan furniture and scholar''s objects. Together they represent the golden age of Chinese furniture design... More about Living with Ming: The Lu Ming Shi Collection