2017. Hardcover. A new collection of the accessible and evocative "micro-verse" from one of Russia's most beloved poets. Vera Pavlova's If There Is Something to Desire delighted the poetry world a few years ago. Her poems, rarely longer than a few lines, thrill and puzzle us like Zen koans..... More

John Hopkins University Press. In her award-winning, critically acclaimed Women's Writing in Italy, 1400--1650, Virginia Cox chronicles the history of women writers in early modern Italy -- who they were, what they wrote, where they fit in society, and how their status changed during this period. In this book, Cox..... More

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

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

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

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

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

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