Hatje Cantz, 2011. Galvanized by the continued failure of world governments to act on the deterioration of our planet, and further spurred by surviving a near-fatal car crash, Swiss artists Mathias Braschler (born 1969) and Monika Fischer (born 1971) decided to make a tangible record of ecological collapse--of photographs to..... More
Zhou B Art Center, 2006. 1000 copies of this edition have been printed. Hardcover. The Artist: Mathias Schauwecker (born 1967 in Zurich, Switzerland) lives and works in Paris. The Authors: Drew Hammond is Visiting Lecturer in Contemporary Art for the University of Toronto (B.A.S.E. Beijing)... More
2014. In Windows on the World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views, architect and artist Matteo Pericoli brilliantly explores this concept alongside fifty of our most beloved writers from across the globe. By pairing drawings of window views with texts that reveal—either physically or metaphorically—what the drawings cannot, Windows on the World..... More
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
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
Flame Tree Publishing, 2016. Mount Fuji has been a source of inspiration and awe since ancient times, and artists have been reproducing its likeness since at least the 14th century, as it became a key motif in all aspects of Japanese culture. The 19th century Ukiyo-e woodblock prints of important..... More
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
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
Born in 1924 in the ancient Persian city of Qazvin, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian spent her childhood in a grand old house replete with stained glass, wall paintings and nightingales. Coming of age during World War II, she left occupied Iran and audaciously set out for New York, where she was..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
