To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's famous modernist novel, which features the Ramsay's on a family trip to Skye. Written in a style that leaves conventionality behind, the work is a mosaic of thoughts, contemplation and perception. More
Hatje Cantz, 2012. "Body as Protest" highlights the photographic representation of the human body as a radical expression of protest against social, political and aesthetic norms. Centering on a series by John Coplans, it also includes works by Hannah Wilke, Ketty La Rocca, Hannah Villiger, Bruce Nauman, Robert Mapplethorpe and..... More
China Institute, 2013. Like the old masters before them, modern and contemporary luminaries, such as Zhang Daqian, Zhang Hongtu, Liu Jude, Liu Dan, and Yu Hong, have sought inspiration from Dunhuang’s ancient sculptures and murals. Inspired by Dunhuang presents the breathtaking results of their painstaking and creative efforts, which capture..... 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
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
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
Art Media Resources, Inc., 2002. Published to coincide with the First Guangzhou Triennial (opening November 18, 2002), this volume provides a systematic description and analysis of Chinese experimental art and cinema of the 90s, the subject of the Triennial. This volume consists of three parts: Part One provides an overview..... More
University of Hawaii Press, 2007. "This may seem a specialized study of a minority group in Southeast China--whose partially transcribed language he learnt while studying their buildings--yet Xing Ruan has used this marvelous miniature to illuminate the complex relation between many other societies, their daily life, their rituals and ceremonies..... More
Art Media Resources, Inc., 1994. Published by Art Media Resources & Brushwork Gallery. Poetry by the Taiwanese immigrant Chuang (in Chinese), illustrated with paintings by Leong, who taught at San Francisco State. More
Yale University Press, 2013. An eagerly awaited anthology of recent poetry and prose by the celebrated French poet Yves Bonnefoy Yves Bonnefoy, who will soon attain the age of ninety, has gratified his readers during the past two decades with the most prolific and innovative period of his splendid..... 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
Chicago: Zhou B Art Center, 2014. First Edition. This publication was produced in conjunction with the Zhou B Art Center 10 Years of Art Innovation Anniversary Celebration. More
Science Press, 2000. 本书收集了苏秉琦先生逝世时唁函、唁电百余封；悼念纪念文章40余篇；学术活动珍贵照片70余张，同时还发表了苏秉琦先生年谱。反映了苏秉琦先生一生对考古学的重大贡献，及其严谨学风、诲人不倦的高尚品德。 本书是以纪念集的形式介绍了苏秉琦先生对中国考古学的重大贡献，同时也从一个方面反映了中国考古学的发展历程和研究成果。 本书可供考古学、历史学、文博学、人类学研究者及相关专业师生阅读、参考. More
Forbidden City Publishing House, 1999. More
1992. Written in Mandarin and Korean. Published by Jeollanam-do / Kangjin-gun (全羅南道・康津郡他). More
University of Toronto Press, 1980. Hardcover. More
2016. Witches of America is a memoir of Alex Mar’s immersive five-year trip into the occult, as both a journalist and someone searching for her own faith. She explores modern Paganism―from its roots in 1950s England to its present-day American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering..... More
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
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
Yale University Press, 2007. SC. It might come as a surprise to discover that a Renaissance-era art collector can get a Botticelli for much less than the wallpaper surrounding it; that's just one of the surprising details revealed in this collaborative effort, an unabashedly revisionist history which expands on the..... More
Yale University Press, 1999. In a fascinating series of case studies, this book looks at the ways in which European colonizers interpreted the arts of the people they colonized, as well the ways in which they have tended to view art produced by the colonized and their descendants in post-colonial..... More
1993. Used. Slight water damage to dust jacket, book is in very good condition. More
2016. "If Ms. Frizzle were a physics student of Stephen Hawking, she might have written THE UNIVERSE IN YOUR HAND, a wild tour through the reaches of time and space, from the interior of a proton to the Big Bang to the rough suburbs of a black hole. It's friendly..... More
