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Disguise: Masks and Global African Art
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
In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World
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
Friendship and Scholarship: The First 25 Years
In English and Chinese. More
Admission Requirements
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
Thai Literature in Relation to the Diffusion of Her Cultures
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
The Nature and Development of the Thai Language
Publisher: The Fine Arts Department, Bangkok Publication Date: 1963 Binding: Soft cover Book Condition: Fine. More
Reading - A Study of Li Shan's Works
Chambers Fine Art, 2006. Chambers Fine Art, 2006. Softcover, 126 pages; in English and Chinese. More
Snapshot Capturing the Postmodern Soul in Southeast Asian Art
Hong Kong: Plum Blossoms, 2000. More
A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Short Stories of Primo Levi
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
Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II
University of Chicago Press. 7.5 x 10.5", 360 pp., 30 color illustrations, 120 b/w illustrations, hardcover, d.j., Chicago, 2009. Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II examines multiple dimensions of visual modernity in East Asia from the nineteenth century through the early decades of..... More
Spirituality, Gender, and the Self in Renaissance Italy
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
Sincerity: How a Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art, Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion That We All Have Something to Say (No Matter How Dull)
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
Chinese Art: The Minor Arts: Gold, Silver, Bronze, CloisonneÌ, Cantonese Enamel, Lacquer, Furniture, Wood
London: F.S.A. Oldbourne Press, 1963. More
Chinese Art: The Minor Arts II
New York: 1965. More
Cai Guo-Qiang: Ladder to the Sky
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