Museum of Glass, 2011. Hardcover with Slipcase. Glimmering Gone focuses on the work of two artists who live on different continents - Europe and North America. Ingalena Klenell is recognized for her intricate, lacelike kiln-formed compositions, while Beth Lipman is best known for her European-inspired glass still lifes. Both use..... 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
Bay, 1996. The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation is a collection of essays that create a far-reaching and original dialogue between cultural theory and visual practice. The rich insights which emerge from this collection explain why Frantz Fanon's seminal texts of the 1950s and 60s, Black Skin..... More
Yale University Press, 2013. Born in Philadelphia and living and working between Paris and Rome, Barbara Chase-Riboud is an internationally celebrated visual artist, novelist, and poet. This important publication focuses on her monumental series of sculptures dedicated to the assassinated civil rights leader Malcolm X. Begun in 1969, Chase-Riboud's series..... More
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. An introduction to the textile weavings of southwestern Native Americans, the narrative history and color illustrations trace the development of weaving among the Pueblo, Navajo, and Hopi, and the Spanish colonists who settled in the Rio Grande. The reproductions of sarapes, blankets, and clothing will..... 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
Hatje Cantz, 2012. "Body as Protest" highlights the photographic representation of the human body as a radical expression of protest against social, political and aesthetic norms. Centering on a series by John Coplans, it also includes works by Hannah Wilke, Ketty La Rocca, Hannah Villiger, Bruce Nauman, Robert Mapplethorpe and..... More
University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Present-day travelers visiting Borneo to see the marvelous buildings pictured in books are liable to wonder if they somehow ended up in the wrong place. Much of the architecture of Borneo and other areas of the humid tropics was never intended to last and, built..... More
Monacelli Press, 2000. All over the world, women in developing economies improve the lives of their families by creating and selling exquisite, indigenous crafts. The Ndebele beaders of South Africa, the weavers of Guatemala, the flower painters of Poland, the doll makers of Turkey, the mirror embroiderers of India, the..... More
Hatje Cantz, 2011. Galvanized by the continued failure of world governments to act on the deterioration of our planet, and further spurred by surviving a near-fatal car crash, Swiss artists Mathias Braschler (born 1969) and Monika Fischer (born 1971) decided to make a tangible record of ecological collapse--of photographs to..... More
Prestel, 2012. Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this volume documents new projects commissioned for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, alongside Cai Guo-Qiang’s own survey of his artistic journey and the personal cosmology that informs his work. It features a rich sampling of Cai’s wonderfully diverse oeuvre..... More
Dartmouth College Press, 2010. Bernd Herzogenrath’s An American Body|Politic is a study of the intersection between the material, biological body and body as political and cultural metaphor in American politics, religion, literature, and popular culture. Deeply influenced by the thought of Gilles Deleuze, Herzogenrath’s approach to American culture encompasses endless..... More
Hatje Cantz, 2008. Focusing on issues of migration, identity and globalization, the 2008 Shanghai Biennial features 612 international artists, including Rainer Ganahl, Lawrence Weiner, Mike Kelley and Liu Ming. This volume contains thematic texts by the curators, a selection of images and statements from each participating artist. More
University of Hawaii Press, 2007. "This may seem a specialized study of a minority group in Southeast China--whose partially transcribed language he learnt while studying their buildings--yet Xing Ruan has used this marvelous miniature to illuminate the complex relation between many other societies, their daily life, their rituals and ceremonies..... More
Cultural Relics Press, 2009. Jointly produced by the Xi'an Center for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Relices and Northwestern University Information Technologies Department of Academic & Research Technologies Advanced Media Production Studio. More
Qinshan Publishing House. More
1976. Hardcover Nikuhitsu Ukiyoe book with slipcase. More
Cultural Relics Press, 2013. More
Forbidden City Publishing House. More
Forbidden City Publishing House, 2011. This book is the first ever to specialize in the history of court drama in Ming dynasty in China's Academic History. More
University of Hawaii Press. Surprisingly little has been written about the complicated relationship between opium and China and its people. Opium, State, and Society goes a long way toward illuminating this relationship in the Republican period, when all levels of Chinese society--from peasants to school teachers, merchants, warlords, and ministers..... More
1992. Written in Mandarin and Korean. Published by Jeollanam-do / Kangjin-gun (全羅南道・康津郡他). More
Timezone 8. Hung Liu: Great Granary is the story of one of China's pioneering women artists, whose groundbreaking 1981 mural "Music of the Great Earth" (at Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Art) is revered by a generation of Chinese artists, including Xu Bing, Sui Jianguo, Liu Xiaodong, Yu Hong, Wei..... More
