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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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