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木趣居:家具中的嘉具 【Books from Asia】The Best of The Best:The MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture
Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2017. Hardcover. 7.3 x 9.5", 2 vols., 520 pp., 1091 plates, text in Chinese and English, catalog of 112 pieces, bibliography, cloth, slipcase, Beijing, 2017. MQJ, abbreviated from Mu Qu Ju, is the name chosen by renowned scholar Wang Shixiang for this special Ming Furniture..... More
Architecture and Decoration of the Forbidden City
Forbidden City Publishing House, 2011. More
The Forbidden City Classics the Figures of Tibetan Buddhism
Forbidden City Publishing House, 2011. More
Sculptures in the Collection of the Palace Museum
Forbidden City Publishing House, 2012. More
故宮瓷器選萃. 續輯 Masterworks of Chinese porcelain in the National Palace Museum - Supplement
National Palace Museum Taipei, 1973. More
故宮璽印選萃 Masterpieces of Chinese seals in the National Palace Museum
National Palace Museum Taipei, 1974. More
Mo Yan Shu Gao: Han Wei Kaogu Wenji [Collected Writings on Archaeology of Han Wei]
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
Influence of Japanese Art on Design
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
He Xiangyu
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
The Way of Taiko
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: Paintings from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (English and Japanese Edition)
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
From Eastern Han to High Tang: A Journey of Transculturation
2005. At the end of the Eastern Han in A.D. 220 there emerged a number of political leaders, and the state of fragmentation into which China was plunged lasted for nearly 400 years. It was not until the late 6th century that China was re-unified under the Sui dynasty. Political..... More
随州叶家山 : 西周早期曾国墓地 Suizhou Yejiashan
Cultural Relics Press, 2013. In 2011 and 2013, the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology fully exposed the cemetery. A total of 140 early Western Zhou tombs were excavated, and a large number of bronzes, ceramics, lacquered wood, and jade were unearthed. Many bronzes bear the inscriptions of..... More
Chinese Houses and Gardens
Edited by Shao Chang Lee
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
Delacroix
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
Himiko and Japan's Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai: Archaeology, History, and Mythology
University of Hawaii Press, 2007. HB. The third-century Chinese chronicle Wei zhi (Record of Wei) is responsible for Japan’s most enduring ancient mystery. This early history tells of a group of islands off the China coast that were dominated by a female shaman named Himiko. Himiko ruled for more than..... More
Heritage of the Brush: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting
Phoenix Art Museum. More
A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-Era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection
:::文采卓然:潔蕊堂藏康熙盛世瓷
Jieruitang Publishing, 2017. Limited Edition. Hardcover, illustrated in color, text in English with introduction and chapter titles in Chinese. Kangxi era porcelains are vast in number and in range of style, reflecting the long and successful reign of the Kangxi emperor (1662–1722). These high-quality porcelains of great visual appeal and..... More
Dictionary Stories: Short Fictions and Other Findings
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
Make Trouble
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
Journeys on Paper and Silk: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting
Phoenix Art Museum, 1998. More
Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto
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
New Documents of Indian Painting - A Reappraisal
Wales Museum, 1969. "The present volume which is a re-consideration of Indian miniature painting up to the sixteenth century is no more than an attempt to elucidate the many problems which face those who have endeavoured to study this period. The available evidence is all too often inadequate for firm..... More
海北友松 Kaiho Yusho
Kyoto: Kyoto National Museum, 2017. 9 x 12", xii, 348 pp., 76 select items illustrated in color, some fold outs, some b/w illustrations, text in Japanese, foreword, section introduction and list of works in English, paper, Kyoto, 2017. Kaiho Yusho is renowned as one of the most eminent painters of..... More