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I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
In her singular voice—both humble and brave, touching and humorous—Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the..... More
A Collection of Pagodas: 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco
Mee-Seen Loong Fine Art, 2014. The exhibition catalog includes a rare and unusual collection of 84 models of Chinese pagodas exhibited at the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition, based on famous pagodas extant in China around the turn of the twentieth century. After storage of 100 years, this collection reappears in..... More
Red Sorghum
1994. The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape..... More
Proliferating Talent: Essays on Politics, Thought, and Education in the Meiji Era
University of Hawaii Press, 1997. Detailed and diverse, Proliferating Talent challenges us to rethink a crucial period in Japanese history. The eight essays translated here broadly cover the eventful half century that witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the modern Japanese state to the position..... More
Spirit and Self in Medieval China: The Shih-Shuo Hsin-Yu and Its Legacy
University of Hawaii Press, 2001. In this ambitious volume, Xian (Chinese Literature, Rice University) has undertaken a reconsideration of one of the monuments of Chinese literature, which he frames within the themes of character and identity. The genre of Shih-shuo , as this developed over subsequent centuries, is analyzed with..... More
The Bronze Dong Son Drums
Dong Son Culture, which lasted about 1000 years from the 7th to 2nd centuries BC, is considered the peak of metallurgical technique in the Vietnam history. Dong Son Drums, or the Heger I Bronze Drum according to the classification of the Austrian archaeologist, Franz Heger, are divided into three parts..... More
Room Temperature
Granta Editions, 2011. From a New York Times–bestselling and National Book Critics Award–winning author comes a “small masterpiece” of fatherhood, childhood, and bottle-feeding (Publishers Weekly). In a novel Entertainment Weekly called “intensely funny and moving,” Nicholson Baker takes the reader on an intellectual odyssey over the course of the..... More
From the Margins: Lee Krasner | Norman Lewis, 1945–1952
Jewish Museum. A revealing parallel view of two key Abstract Expressionists, From the Margins brings together two New York painters whose works offer unique and compelling approaches to abstraction. Born one year apart, Lee Krasner (1908–84) and Norman Lewis (1909–79) shared similar family situations and came of age in the..... More
Museum Haus Konstructiv Complete Concrete
Hatje Cantz. Reduction is very much in vogue again: ZERO is undergoing a major international revival, important Op artists are being rediscovered, and new art galleries with a contemporary platform are presenting the influential Conceptual artists of the sixties and seventies. In short, Constructive, Concrete, and Conceptual themes are once..... More
Disguise: Masks and Global African Art
Yale University Press, 2015. Hardcover. While masks are a major art form in many parts of Africa, their use has taken new turns in the 21st century. Disguise: Masks and Global African Art explores how themes related to masking and disguise in the past are now transitioning into new platforms..... More
In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World
Monacelli Press, 2000. All over the world, women in developing economies improve the lives of their families by creating and selling exquisite, indigenous crafts. The Ndebele beaders of South Africa, the weavers of Guatemala, the flower painters of Poland, the doll makers of Turkey, the mirror embroiderers of India, the..... More
Admission Requirements
2017. The poems in Admission Requirements attempt to discover what is required of us when we cut across our material and psychic geographies. Simultaneously full and empty of its origins, the self is continually taxed of any certainties and ways of being. The speaker in these poems is engaged in..... More
Thai Literature in Relation to the Diffusion of Her Cultures
Bangkok. Title: Thai Literature in Relation to the Diffusion... Publisher: The Fine Arts Department, Bangkok Publication Date: 1963 Binding: Soft cover Book Condition: Fine. More
A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Short Stories of Primo Levi
2007. A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader..... More
Spirituality, Gender, and the Self in Renaissance Italy
Angela Merici (1474-1540), like other mystic women such as Catherine of Siena, was considered a "santa viva"--a living saint--by virtue of her mysticism, sacred knowledge, human qualities, and participation in civic life. However, Angela's originality and genius reside above all in the foundation of the Company of St. Ursula. It..... More
Sincerity: How a Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art, Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion That We All Have Something to Say (No Matter How Dull)
2012. A cultural and intellectual history of sincerity, from its emergence during the Protestant Reformation to its present incarnations and adversaries. People have long been duped by "straight-talking" politicians, confessional talk-show hosts, and fake-earnest advertisers. As sincerity has become suspect, the upright and honest have taken refuge in irony..... More
Cai Guo-Qiang: Ladder to the Sky
Prestel, 2012. Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this volume documents new projects commissioned for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, alongside Cai Guo-Qiang’s own survey of his artistic journey and the personal cosmology that informs his work. It features a rich sampling of Cai’s wonderfully diverse oeuvre..... More
The Children of Renaissance Florence (Power and Dependence in Renaissance Florence, Vol 1)
Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1992. The Children of Renaissance Florence - Power and Dependence in Renaissance Florence - Volume 1 - by Richard C. Trexler -- This volume brings together four studies of Florentine youth. The first opens the door to the city's great foundling home of the..... More
Sequential Drawings: The New Yorker Series (Pantheon Graphic Library)
From the author of the widely acclaimed graphic novel Here, awarded the 2016 Prix D'or for best graphic album at Angoulême, a new graphic work that celebrates another aspect of his incomparable genius. Sequential Drawings gathers together more than a decade of McGuire's witty and endlessly inventive spots—a veritable..... More
Zeng Fanzhi: Every Mark Its Mask
Hatje Cantz. The work of Chinese painter Zeng Fanzhi (born 1964) reveals a great deal about his homeland's rapidly changing society. In his Mask paintings, people wearing plain white masks confront the viewer with wide eyes and grotesquely exaggerated hands. In addition to these well-known images, this publication features works..... More
Chinese Furniture: The Hung Collection (2 Volumes)
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
The Nordic Butterfly Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles - 2 Volume Set
Privately Printed. 9 x 11.75", cloth, d.j., slipcase, Hong Kong, 2010. Part 1: 255 pp., 219 select items in color, all with multiple views, abbreviations, bibliography Part 2: 255 pp., items 220 to 437 in color, all with multiple views, abbreviations, bibliography, pictorial end papers... More
The Architecture of Life and Death in Borneo
University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Present-day travelers visiting Borneo to see the marvelous buildings pictured in books are liable to wonder if they somehow ended up in the wrong place. Much of the architecture of Borneo and other areas of the humid tropics was never intended to last and, built..... More