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Palettle, 2004. Text in English and Chinese. 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
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
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
Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing; his first book of poetry in more than twenty years; during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzling collection is enhanced by the author's playful and provocative..... More
7.25 x 10", 2 volumes, 767 pp., illustrated with line drawings, text in Chinese, paper, Beijing, 2003. More
Cultural Relics Publishing House, 2007. More
Damiani, 2008. Hardcover. A distinguishing characteristic of contemporary Chinese art is a fusion between traditional Asian forms and references to Western art and pop culture. From Heaven to Earth features the work of 16 Chinese painters who exemplify this amalgam--Feng Zhengjie, Fu Hong, He Sen, Li Dafang, Li Songsong, Ma..... More
The Guimet Museum, one of the most complete collections of Asiatic art, has been in existence for more than a century. It includes, among other things, the rich reserves from the Louvre Museum. However, never has so ambitious a project as the establishment of a general catalogue been undertaken. The..... More
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, 2002. This lavishly illustrated book catalogues for the first time more than 300 snuff bottles that make up one of the most impressive collections of snuff bottles in the United States. Imperial enamels, superb porcelains and glass, stunning agates and jades, as well as rare..... 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
Art Media Resources, Inc., 2001. In 1974, Raymond Bushell, a passionate netsuke collector, was able to have a photocopy made of the original Takarabukuro (Treasure Bag), a notebook kept by the netsuke artist, Mitsuhiro Ohara (1810-1875), and carefully preserved by his family. In it, Mitsuhiro set down brief descriptions of..... 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