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...
Art Media Resources, Inc., 2019. hardbound with dust jacket; 265 pages with color photos. ***PRE-PUBLICATION SALE! Order now to receive 20% off. Expected availability date is June 2019*** As multi-functional as they are artistically important, folding and standing screens assume a variety of roles unique to the cultures...
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...
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...
2016. Softcover. The exhibition The Forbidden City and the Odyssey of Its Treasures: A Photographic Retrospective is comprised of seven sections: "The Imperial Household," "The Last Emperor and Empress," "The Imperial Couple's Tutors and Friends," "The Palaces and Gardens," "The Late Qing Reforms," "Chinese Society in the Late Qing and...
Munshiram Manoharial. 8.7 x 11.3", 226 pp., 18 color and 223 b/w illustrations, hardboard, d.j., New Delhi, 1983. In a most comprehensive and thorough analysis, this present work identifies Mithuna or Male-Female theme as a symbol pure and simple that occurs and recurs under many contexts and representational assumptions in...
8.5 x 12", 171 pp., 239 color illustrations, hardboard, d.j., Auckland, 2001. This book starts with a brief introduction to Chinese bronzes and bronze casting techniques of the Shang to Han dynasties, circa 3,800 to 1,800 years ago. Subsequent chapters discuss authentication techniques generally, with brief sections on the use...
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. 8 x 10", 111 pp., more than 80 color plates, list of Sanskrit terms with Diacritical marks, bibliography, paper, Los Angeles, 2006. Fire and light have long symbolized the relationship of human beings to the universe and its creators. In South and Southeast Asia and...
Smithsonian Institution Press. 7.75 x 11.25", 120 pp., fully illustrated, mostly in color, annotated bibliography, contributors, index, paper, Washington D.C., 1998. (o.p.; near fine). In China, mandarin ducks, said to mate for life, symbolize wedded bliss, and tiny red shoes are viewed as sexually arousing. In Japan, black hair once...
Brill Academic Publishers. 8.75 x 11.75", 130 pp. plus 170 b/w plates, bibliography, index, cloth, d.j., Leiden, 1997. Rajasthan was the homeland of the Gurjara Pratiharas, one of the most powerful dynasties in northern India, and many important temples were produced during their brief tenure there. While these monuments provide...
Baur Collection. Hardcover. 9.25 x 11.5", limited numbered edition, unpaged, 113 plates, numerous in color, appendix, cloth, d.j., Geneva, 1982. The eighth of the Baur Collection Catalog, this sumptuous volume presents masterpieces of Japanese ceramics, ranging from the dark glazed stone wares of Seto to the colorful Nabeshima and the...
Phoenix Art Museum. 8 x 8.25", 95 pp., fully illustrated in color, map, paper, Phoenix, 2010. For millennia in China, tea was regarded as food, medicine and drink. History and folklore are replete with mortal and divine figures connected to the discovery and preparation of tea. Over time, its curative...
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. 9.25 x 12.25", later printing, 351 pp., profusely illustrated in color, bibliography, English-language index, Pinyin Subject index, Pinyin Auspicious Phrase index, cloth, d.j., San Francisco, 2006. *Due to its size and weight, the shipping cost is $9.95(USA address) and $59.95 (non-USA address). Published on...
Aryan Books International. 8.75 x 11.25", xv, 280 pp., 24 plates, 40 figures, bibliography, index, cloth, d.j., New Delhi, 1996. The author stresses the importance of conservation and gives some examples where conservation techniques were successful on important monuments.
Peabody Essex Museum. 9.25 x 11", 288 pp., 119 color illustrations, 63 b/w illustrations, notes, index, cloth, d.j., Salem, 2001. (o.p.; fine). In this splendid work, Bean, curator of South Asian and Korean art and culture at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, provides insights into the experiences of...
8.7 x 11.8", reprint of 1984 ed., 308 pp., 297 illustrations, 82 in color, 215 photographs, drawings and maps, glossary, bibliography, index, paper, London, 1993. (o.p.; some wear to cover corners, sl bent upper corner/pages).
Abhinav Publications. 5.75 x 8.75", 523 pp., 501 b/w illustrations, glossary, index, cloth, d.j., Delh, 2000. Recently, ancient Indian sculpture has entered into the mainstream of world art scholarship and has been approached from many different perspectives. However, little has concretely been said about the creative processes and the universal...
Prestel. 10.25 x 12", 207 pp., 200 color illustrations, chronology, bibliography, index, illustrated endpapers, cloth, d.j., Munich, 2011. This dazzling array of exquisite and intimate art from one of the world’s most renowned collectors covers more than three centuries of Chinese erotic art. This opulently illustrated volume offers a wide-ranging...
Munshiram Manoharial. 5.75 x 8.75", reprint of 1896 ed., xix, 491 pp., index and glossary, cloth, d.j., New Delhi, 1995. An exposition of the origin of the Hindu Caste System and the bearing of the Sects towards each other and towards other religious systems.
2013: ArbonLambert Publishing, London. 11.8 x 11.4", 252 pp., over 300 color images, cloth with French fold gloss laminated dustjacket. The figures and mythical creatures portrayed in Michael Birch’s carvings range from sensuous, voluptuous figures through abstractions of animals and geometric forms to his very personal interpretations of Japanese myths...
Agam Kala Prakashan. 7.25 x 9.75", frontispiece, xviii, 227 pp., 80 b/w plates, 46 figures, 6 line drawings, maps, bibliography, index, map on endpapers, cloth, New Delhi, 1981. (o.p.; light soiling to cover ow text near fine). A unique study on the terracotta art of Bengal. Foreword by Niharranjan Ray.
San Antonio Museum of Art, 2006. 9.75 x 10.75", 180 pp., 73 select items, many with multiple views in color, map, timeline, selected readings, cloth, d.j., San Antonio, 2006. The San Antonio Museum of Art houses one of the most extensive and comprehensive collections of Asian art in the southern...
Asia Society. 9.2 x 12.2", 162, profusely illustrated in color, map, notes, catalogue, chronology, bibliography, index, red cloth, d.j., New York, 1985. (o.p.; gilt lettering spine/front cover design, fine). An Exhibition held at The Asia Society Galleries, New York, Octoer 10, 1985 - January 5, 1986; Harvard University Art Museums...
Social Sciences Publishing House. 8.5 x 11.2", 520 pp., 250 color and 70 b/w plates and line drawings, 5 maps, text in Vietnamese and English, cloth, d.j., Hanoi, 2001. **Due to size and weight, the shipping cost for this title is $12.00(USA address) and $38.00 (non-USA address). It was only...
D.K. Printworld Ltd. 8.5 x 11.5", xxviii, 473 pp., 908 line drawings, bibliography, cloth, d.j., New Delhi, 1997. In its monumental effort to explain/interpret Buddhist-and-Hindu visual/conceptual symbols, images, objects, concepts and rites, this dictionary extends the definition of iconography to embrace numerous peripheral terms, which either have immediate relevance to...
