New Arrivals
Zeng Fanzhi: Every Mark Its Mask
Hatje Cantz. The work of Chinese painter Zeng Fanzhi (born 1964) reveals a great deal about his homeland's rapidly changing society. In his Mask paintings, people wearing plain white masks confront the viewer with wide eyes and grotesquely exaggerated hands. In addition to these well-known images, this publication features works..... More
The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood
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
Vajra Wisdom: Deity Practice in Tibetan Buddhism
Hardcover. Vajra Wisdom presents the commentaries of two great nineteenth-century Nyingma masters that guide practitioners engaged in development stage practice through a series of straightforward instructions. The rarity of this kind of material in English makes it indispensable for practitioners and scholars alike. The goal of development stage..... More
The Future of the Hong Kong Sea Shore
Oxford University Press, 1979. More
Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yusaku
University of Washington Press, 2011. Recognized in Japan as a connoisseur, collector, and proprietor of a famous folk art shop in Tokyo, Tawara Yusaku returned to painting late in life and had a single show in London before his death in 2004. Universe Is Flux is the first examination of..... More
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's famous modernist novel, which features the Ramsay's on a family trip to Skye. Written in a style that leaves conventionality behind, the work is a mosaic of thoughts, contemplation and perception. More
TWO GREAT MASTERS OF UKIYO-E , ONE VOLUME - THE THIRTY SIX VIEWS OF MOUNT FUJI
RARE BOOKS
East West Center Press, 1966. 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
Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730–1820
John Hopkins University Press. Spoken words come alive in written verse. In Sounding Imperial, James Mulholland offers a new assessment of the origins, evolution, and importance of poetic voice in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By examining a series of literary experiments in which authors imitated oral voices..... More