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
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
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
Yale University Press, 2010. Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world’s most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was oriented toward inland centers and preoccupied with the blood of royal lineage and..... More
National Art Gallery, 1988. The contemporary art movement in Malaysia began about 35 years ago and has produced many fine artists. This catalogue presents 41 of the leading contemporary artists of Malaysia. More
University of Pennsylvania Press. The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to sites on the eastern Mediterranean and along sea routes to India. But..... More
Palettle, 2004. Text in English and Chinese. More
University of California Press, 2013. In the late nineteenth century Tahiti embodied Western ideas of an earthly Paradise, a primitive utopia distant geographically and culturally from the Gilded Age or Belle Epoque. Stimulated by fin de siècle longings for the exotic, a few adventurous artists sought out this Eden on..... More
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Science Press, 2001. A collection of 39 articles previously published by this Shaanxi archaeologist covering pre-Imperial Qin tombs, Tang gold and silver objects, Tang imperial tombs, the Famen Si reliquary deposits and more. Author: Han Wei. Title: Moyan shugao - Han Wei kaogu wenji [Moyan shugao - Collected Archaeological Writings..... More
Gibbs-Smith Publisher. During America's Gilded Age (dates), the country was swept by a mania for all things Japanese. It spread from coast to coast, enticed everyone from robber barons to street vendors with its allure, and touched every aspect of life from patent medicines to wallpaper. Americans of the time..... More
Distanz, 2016. He Xiangyu (b. Dandong, Liaoning Province, 1986; lives and works in Beijing and Berlin) belongs to a new generation of Chinese conceptual artists who use a variety of media to articulate their cultural and social concerns. His ambitious and provocative works have quickly brought him international renown. In..... More
Stone Bridge Press, 2013. "Packs a punch with gorgeous photographs, a brief history of taiko drumming, drums and accompanying instruments used in taiko, costumes, drumming techniques, and glossary. . . . A great introduction."—WorldMusicCentral.org Japanese taiko drumming, an ancient sacred harvest-time practice, has evolved into a form of mental..... More
Japanese Masterworks offers a survey of Japanese painting spanning 600 years (the 1300s to early 1900s) and including almost all of the major genres and styles. Especially important are paintings -- hanging scrolls and folding screens -- by many of the best-known artists of the Edo period (1615-1868). The..... More
China Institute, 2001. In this study of Southern Song fans and album leaves, the beautiful landscape of the West Lake environs and the cultural life of the imperial capital, Hangzhou, emerge as key factors in the art of the period. Natural wonders, temples, and palatial settings are identified in both..... More
Hastings House. 9.2 x 12.2", reprint of 1940 ed., xii, 148 pp., 260 b/w illustrations, cloth, New York, 1950. (o.p.; some wear to top/bottom spine and cover corners). More
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
Phoenix Art Museum. More
Jez Burrows opened the New Oxford American Dictionary and sat, mystified. Instead of the definition of "study" he was looking for, he found himself drawn to the strangely conspicuous, curiously melodramatic sentence that followed it: "He perched on the edge of the bed, a study in confusion and misery." It..... More
2017. From an icon of popular culture, here is inspiring advice for artists, graduates, and all who seek happiness and success on their own terms. So what if you have talent? Then what? When John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island..... More
Phoenix Art Museum, 1998. More
J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013. In the 1930s the history of Japanese photography evolved in two very different directions: one toward documentary photography, the other favoring an experimental, or avant-garde, approach strongly influenced by Western Surrealism. This book explores these two strains of modern Japanese photography through the work of..... More
Cultural Relics Publishing House, 2007. More
