Imperial Robes and Textiles of the Chinese Court Exhibition
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1943. Exhibition catalog from Minneapolis Institute of Art; April 13 to June 15 1943. Limited printing of 3000 copies. Includes b/w/plates. More
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Witches of America
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
淩家灘: 田野考古發掘報告之一 Lingjiatan: Archaeological Excavation Reports
Cultural Relics Press. More
Lacquerware from the Warring States to the Han Periods Excavated in the Hubei Province
1994. HB. Cloth, quarto, 58 pages. + catalog of 82 pieces with color photos. New book. More
北京文物精粹大系 石雕卷 Gems of Beijing Cultural Relics Series: Stone Carvings
Beijing Publishing House, 2009. HB. Text in Chinese and English. More
Jain Cosmology
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
China's Dragon Robes
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
Viewing Renaissance Art (Renaissance Art Reconsidered)
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
Views of Difference: Different Views of Art (Art and Its Histories Series)
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
中国漆器全集 第6卷 清 The Complete Collection of Chinese Lacquerware, Vol. 6: Qing
1993. Used. Slight water damage to dust jacket, book is in very good condition. More
法海寺壁画 Fa Hai Temple Murals
China Tourism Press, 1991. More
Fine Chinese Art from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections Wednesday 18 March 2009, New York
New York: Christie's, 2009. More
Hong Kong: Masterworks of Chinese Paintings from Three Important Private Collections Monday May 26 2008
Hong Kong: Christie's, 2008. More
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
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
Liangyi Collection
3 Volumes plus Supplement: Vol. 1: Zitan: 125 pp., 45 color plates, smaller color figures; Vol. 2: Huanghuali: 175 pp., 70 color plates, smaller color figures; Vol. 3: Small Objects: 169 pp., 105 color plates, smaller color figures; Supplement: 47 pp., small color illustrations with descriptions of all plates, introduction..... More
Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea
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
Contemporary Paintings of Malaysia
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
The Mystique of Opium
Parkstone Press Ltd. More
Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature (The Middle Ages Series)
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
Between Han and Tang: Religious Art and Archaeology of a Transformative Period (3rd-6th Centuries C.E.)
University of Chicago Press. 8.5 x 11", approx. 120 pp., text in English and Chinese, spiral bound, paper, Chicago, 1999. (near fine). Abstracts topics include: Temple and icons, ritual and perception New Archaeological Surveys of Regional sites Buddhist art in Xinjiang and the Hexi Corridor Reading Caves Patronage and Artistic..... More
Yan Yanping
Palettle, 2004. Text in English and Chinese. More
Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti
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