Art Media Resources, Inc. 7.25 x 10.5", 240 pp., 100 color/BW illustrations, index, authors, pictorial boards, d.j., Chicago, 2013. Much attention has been given to the importance of emulation of the past in East Asian history. Study and interpretation of the past are now recognized as persistent forces in the... More about Archaism and Antiquarianism in Korean and Japanese Art
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 about Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II
Art Media Resources, Inc. 7.25 x 10.5", 208 pp., color illustrations, index, authors, pictorial boards, d.j., Chicago, 2012. The essays in this collection examine a broad spectrum of artwork, sharing secrets for "seeing" the arts of Asia as practiced by professional historians of Asian art. Here the novice and the... More about Looking at Asian Art
Art Media Resources, Inc. 7.5 x 10.5", 384 pp., fully illustrated with b/w figures and line drawings, endnotes after each chapter, index, boards, d.j., Chicago, 2010. Much attention has been given to the importance of emulation of the past in Chinese history. Study and interpretation of the past are now... More about Reinventing the Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in Chinese Art and Visual Culture
University of Chicago Press. 7.25 x 10.5”, 399 pp., 150+ images (most in color), hardcover w/ jacket, Chicago, 2013. The tenth century was a period of extensive change in East Asia, in which China was divided into regional kingdoms with the fall of the Tang dynasty in 907 and powerful... More about Tenth-Century China and Beyond: Art and Visual Culture in a Multi-centered Age
Harvard University Press. 8.5 x 11.25", xviii, 448 pp., 180 b/w illustrations, contributors, detailed notes, index, cloth, d.j., Cambridge, 2005. Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that... More about Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture
publisher: 中央日報 pub year: 1981 price found online: JP￥84,000. 1巻 謙斎鄭散 (black ink painting by a particular artist?) 2巻 白磁 (white porcelain) 3巻 粉青沙器 (green ceramics) (4巻 青磁 (blue porcelain)) 5巻 土器 (clay ceramics) 6巻 書芸 (calligraphy) 7巻 高麗仏画 (Buddhist art) 8巻 民画 (folk art) 9巻 石塔 (stone pagoda) 10巻 仏像 (statues of buddha) 11巻 山水画 上 (paintings of scenery 1) 12巻 山水画 下(paintings of... More about Beauty of Korea: 24 volume (missing vol. 4
2015. The catalogue features four sections. The first of "Imperial Portraits" presents the Museum's two precious albums of bust portraits of Mongol Yuan emperors and empresses in their entirety, the former having eight leaves and the latter fifteen. The second one on "Life and Culture" includes a selection of twelve... More about 國立故宮博物院藏 蒙古文物彙<br>Cultural Relics of the Mongols in the National...
2016. softcover. 「嘉慶君遊臺灣」，是一則由來已久的臺灣民間故事。事實上，嘉慶皇帝從未來臺，但傳說中嘉慶君在臺遊歷，考察民情，鋤強扶助，成為臺灣獨鍾的傳奇性人物。嘉慶君(1760-1820)，全名愛新覺羅‧顒琰，是滿族入關後第五位皇帝一清仁宗睿皇帝(1795-1820)，嘉慶是他的年號。在位期間，平定了許多內部動亂，抑制社會危機；另方面，他繼續推動乾隆朝文化事業，整理皇室收藏，編纂官書，其詩作豐富，數量雖僅次其父，足稱為中國皇朝第二位多產詩人。 本特展即以嘉慶皇帝一生事蹟為主線，透過「嘉慶君‧遊臺灣」、「嘉慶皇帝其人」、「宮廷藝術與收藏」、「廣續文化事業」以及「安內靖亂」五大單元，除精選院藏嘉慶朝文物外，並結合相關單位與私人收藏代表性文物，呈現嘉慶朝臺灣的社會風俗及傳說、嘉慶君的生平、嘉慶朝內府原藏、當朝藝術以及武功政績等，實現嘉慶文物一遊臺灣的構想。. More about 嘉慶君‧遊臺灣─清仁宗文物特展<br>Lord Jiaqing and the Journey to Taiwan: A...
Beijing Tushuguan 北京图书馆. 7.25 x 10.25", 185 pp, text in Chinese, paper, Beijing, 2006. (o.p.; very good). More about 南山论学集：钱存训先生九五生日纪念<br>Nanshan Lunxue ji: Qian Cunxun...
7.2 x 10.2", 132 pp, 83 b/w & color plates, text in Japanese, English forward & list of exhibits, paper, Kyoto, 1983. (o.p.; some wear/bump to corners/spine, text very good). More about 南禅寺の名宝<br>Nanzenji no meiho
2016. softcover. The views of nature expressed in Chinese art are truly numerous and varied, the earliest of which began with descriptions of surroundings by the ancient Chinese and with observations of the world as they understood it. Over a long process of development, the Chinese gradually formed more sophisticated... More about 華夏藝術中的自然觀：唐獎故宮文物選萃特展<br>Viewing Nature in Chinese...
Jiangxi Meishu 江西美术. 8.5 x 11.5", 280 pp., 14 color and 247 b/w line illustrations, paper, Jiangxi, 1999. This volume is a compilation of drawings of Tibetan designs on clothing, architectural decorations and ritual objects. Suitable for graphic designers and illustrators. More about OOEp~Hz/<br>Zangzu Zhuangshi Tuan Yishu
7 x 12", 183 pp., 200 color illustrations, text in Swedish and English, captions in Swedish only, chronology, cloth, d.j., n.p., 1995. (o.p.; sl wear to d.j., text near fine). More about Dragernes Rige: Kinesisk Kunst I 4000 ar fra Hong Kong, Sverige Og Danmark
5.7 x 8.4", vi, 312 pp., 12 b/w plates, cloth, New York, 1967. (o.p.; vg). The story of a young American women journalist working with Indonesia's President Sukarno on his autobiography. More about My Friend The Dictator
Seoul International Publishing House. 9 x 10.75", 172 pp., profusely illustrated in color, 4 diagrams of Ch'angdok Palace, Kyongbok Palace, Secret Garden (Piwon) and Toksu Palace, Comparative Chart of Chronological Events, map, index, pictorial endpapers, pictorial boards, Seoul, 1986. (o.p.; frayed corners, text vvg to near fine). A popular well-illustrated... More about Art Treasures of Seoul with Walking Tours
Seoul International Publishing House. 6 x 8.5", 412 pp., fully illustrated in color, bibliography, index, cloth, d.j., Seoul, 1986. (o.p.; fine). More about Korea Guide: A Glimpse of Korea's Cultural Legacy (Hardcover
Seoul International Publishing House. 6 x 8.25", 380 pp., over 650 photos, maps, appendix, index, paper, Seoul, 1991. (o.p.; some wear to top/bottom spine/corners, crease marks to top corners of some pages, ow text vvg). Contents: Historical overview of Silla Some Major Attractions of Kyongju Vicinity Kyongju City Vicinity and... More about Korea's Golden Age: Cultural Spirit of Silla in Kyongji (Revised Edition
8.75 x 11.25, 153 pp, over 100 color illustrations, index, boards, Seoul, 1990. (o.p.; sm dent to the fore-edge boards, text vvg to near fine). This second volume concentrates mainly on the exquisite inlaid celadons of the Koryo period. More about Korea's Pottery Heritage Volume II
Seoul International Publishing House. 8.5 x 11.25", 2nd printing, 148 pp., fully illustrated in color, index, illustrated boards, Seoul, 1993. (o.p.; sl wear to cover, text near fine). This volume is a good introduction to Korean art, illustrating and describing art objects in daily life of old Korea. More about Korean Folk Art and Craft
University of Hawaii Press. 6 x 9", xi, 286 pp., 15 color plates, 20 b/w figures, notes, glossary, references, index, paper, Honolulu, 2006. Art as Politics explores the intersection of art, identity politics, and tourism in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Based on long-term ethnographic research from the 1980s to the present, the... More about Art As Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia
Barling. 7.25 x 9.5", 63 pp., 26 plates, one in color, paper, London, 1978. (o.p.; near fine). Exhibition from 6th December - 16th December, 1978 arranged by Shirley Day. More about Classical Style in Japanese Arts
Harry N. Abrams. 6.75 x 8.75", 144 pp., 31 illustrations in color, 38 in b/w, bibliography, historical chronology, pronunciation guide, index, paper, New York, 1995. (o.p.; near fine). An introduction to six major arts of Japan: painting, sculpture, prints, ceramics, calligraphy, and garden design. More about How to Look at Japanese Art
University of Hawaii Press. 6.25 x 9.5", xiii, 253 pp., 37 color plates, b/w illustrations, map, suggested further readings in Western languages, bibliography, index, cloth, Honolulu, 2006. Japanese artists, musicians, actors, and authors have written much over the centuries about the creation, meaning, and appreciation of various arts. Most of... More about Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture (Hardcover
Spencer Museum of Art. 8.25 x 10/75", xiv, 145 pp., 146 b/w illustrations, bibliography, paper, Lawrence, 1980. (o.p.; pen marks top margin area of first page, sl wear to corners, text near fine). The first scholarly documentation of the Oriental art collection at the University of Kansas, which includes Chinese... More about Catalogue of the Oriental Collection