Yale University Press. The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge that extended into all areas of daily life, from the economic, scientific, and political spheres to the general activities of ordinary people... More
The work of Spanish painter Daniel Verbis challenges pictorial language the way his title challenges the written kind: it pushes the limits, and overruns ordinary frames. Misojosentusojosderramándose, translated literally as "My Eyes Spilling Into Yours," encapsulates Verbis's desire to reach his audience, as well as his exuberance. In recent paintings..... More
Chartwell Books, Inc., 1983. More
Publisher: The Fine Arts Department, Bangkok Publication Date: 1963 Binding: Soft cover Book Condition: Fine. More
London, Muban Foundation: 2006. More
2019. FINALIST FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE Award-winning author David Bezmozgis’s first story collection in more than a decade, hailed by the Toronto Star as “intelligent, funny, unfailingly sympathetic” In the title story, a father and his young daughter stumble into a bizarre version of his immigrant..... More
University Press of America, 2000. Hardcover. History of Chinese Daoism- Volume I employs a historical-descriptive method to trace the evolution of Chinese Daoism. This study assumes that Daoism as a religion is atavistic in the Chinese soil; it assimilated the myths and legends of ancient China and has continued to..... More
Yale University Press, 2008. Since 1999, intensive research efforts have vastly increased what is known about the history of coerced migration of transatlantic slaves. A huge database of slave trade voyages from Columbus’s era to the mid-nineteenth century is now available on an open-access Web site, incorporating newly discovered information..... More
The recent rediscovery of Rubens’s Massacre of the Innocents (bought by Lord Thomson for £50 million in 2002) offers an important opportunity to reassess the painter’s early career. Of Rubens’s works immediately following his return to Antwerp in 1608, it is the most assured, achieving a remarkable complexity both compositionally..... More
Simon and Schuster, 2016. Hailed as “invaluable…a substantial work of political thought,” (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is truly within our reach, as is increasingly promised. Can we provide enough food for nine..... More
Yale University Press. Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood—what constitutes a self—have changed over time, so too have ideas about how to represent, shape, or invade the..... More
Material Culture in Anglo-America examines the extent to which regions project cultural identities through the material forms of objects, buildings, and constructed environments. Utilizing more than 130 illustrations and essays by scholars representing a variety of disciplines, this volume explores the material constitution of the West Indies, Carolina lowcountry, and..... More
Getty Research Institute, 2012. This collection of essays—the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production—explores the role the movement played in the construction and recuperation of cultural identities and the ways artists and writers contested, embraced, and adapted surrealist ideas and practices..... More
Publisher: Bangkok : Fine Arts Dept. Publication Date: 1969 Binding: Soft cover Edition: Third Edition. More
London: Bamboo Publishing Ltd., 1990. In 1759, the Qianlong Emperor of China commissioned a catalog of comprehensive, illustrated regulations for ceremonial garments and accessories worn by the members of the imperial household. Not since the HUANGCHAO LIQI TUSHI was written have we seen a more stunning look at the colors..... More
National Palace Museum Taipei, B000NU0X22. More
People's Art Publishing House, 2000. HB. 本部書收集了吳昌碩152幅畫。吳昌碩積其金石篆刻中所能領受的中華民族雄風，雄深博大的精神和審美意趣，一入畫途便有『自我作古空群雄』之想，終得引篆入畫的爐火純青之境、『是梅是篆了不問，自眼仰看蕭寥天』與自然合一之境，實現了其藝術上的超越。為傳統文人畫步入新的境界開了一代新風，展現了華夏文化潛在的無限生機。啟動了中國畫的生命力、創造開拓精神，形成了中國近代畫壇大家輩出的局面。吳昌碩大氣磅薄的繪畫藝術，體現了中國畫筆墨所能達到境界，淋漓盡致地展現了民族魂魄，創造了近代中國畫藝術史上的高峰，為光輝的中國藝術史立一豐碑，昭示後來者應不懈奮進，再創造中國畫的新境界，自立於世界藝術之林。. More
University of California Press, 1993. The life of the Japanese-American sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was an unending spiritual and physical voyage between the two cultures of his birthright. In this definitive biography and critical study, Dore Ashton maps Noguchi's spiritual journey both in the events of his life..... More
This book presents the renowned artist Doris Salcedo’s latest large-scale installation, which is a moving tribute to those who die needlessly and violently in every corner of the world. This exhibition catalog highlights Salcedo’s most recent work, in which the artist commemorates violent deaths around the world. In particular, the..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Hardcover. In recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt's notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints that placed limits on identity formation in the early..... More
Phoenix Press, 2001. On 1 December 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, a quiet and dignified 42-year-old black seamstress refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest led to a 381-day boycott of the city's bus system, led by Martin Luther King, which is now considered the beginning..... More
London: India Society, 1935. More
C.A. Design, 2013. The bilingual book comes in two volumes – one in English with 295 images and the other in Chinese. A well researched and lavishly illustrated book, that offers a wealth of new facts, images and insights into the subject in a broad context. Simply a must..... More
Shanghai Classics Publishing House, 1999. HB. More
New York: 1995. More