New Arrivals
Yang Yanwen Huaji 楊延文畫集
1989. More
Shi Bing Huaji 石兵画集
1990. More
Dang dai shan shui yin xiang, 當代山水印象: 1997著名中青年山水畫家邀請展作品集
1997. Catalogue of contemporary landscape painting invitational exhibition in 1997. Images of works are accompanied by artist statements and artist biographies. More
Two Schools of Cool
Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2011. Representing contemporary artists from the last half century, this unique exhibition catalog captures the spirit of a daring experiment to pair California icons with their new millennium comrades. In the 1960s and 1970s a group of aesthetic adventurers transformed L.A. from cultural desert to..... More
A Swarm, A Flock, A Host: A Compendium of Creatures
Munich, London, NewYork: Prestel, 2013. Hardcover. A collaboration between a contemporary painter and an award-winning poet, this 21st-century bestiary is a spellbinding artistic meditation on the mysteries and diversity of the animal kingdom. Originating in the Middle Ages, bestiaries were illustrated volumes that described various animals--some real, some mystical. The..... More
Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011 (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
Yale University Press, 2013. An eagerly awaited anthology of recent poetry and prose by the celebrated French poet Yves Bonnefoy Yves Bonnefoy, who will soon attain the age of ninety, has gratified his readers during the past two decades with the most prolific and innovative period of his splendid..... More
Meister Eckhart: Philosopher of Christianity
Yale University Press, 2015. Renowned philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale reappraisal of the life and legacy of Meister Eckhart, the medieval German theologian, philosopher, and alleged mystic who was active during the Avignon Papacy of the fourteenth century and was tried for heresy by Pope John XXII. Disputing his..... More
Medieval Modern: Art Out of Time
2012. This groundbreaking study offers a radical new reading of art since the Middle Ages. Moving across the familiar period lines set out in conventional histories, Alexander Nagel explores the deep connections between modern and premodern art to reveal the underlying patterns and ideas traversing centuries of artistic practice... More
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period opened, the Empire's southern provinces—the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean—were at the crossroads of trade routes..... More
The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles Complete Texts of Oedipus The King Oedipus At Colonus Antigone
Plume Book, 1986. Revising and updating his classic 1958 translation, Paul Roche captures the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of Sophocles' great Theban trilogy. In vivid, poetic language, he presents the timeless story of a noble family moving toward catastrophe, dragged down from..... More
The Art of Law: Three Centuries of Justice Depicted
Lannoo Publishers, 2016. More
Interventions: Native American Art for Far-flung Territories
University of Washington Press, 2009. Hardcover. Interventions examines how members of Native American and Canadian First Nation groups situate their art in contemporary global environments, creating a new kind of nexus between the requirements of Native communities and the forms of public display that are of interest to worldwide audiences..... More
In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Literary and Social Contexts for Women’s Writing (Volume 11) (Other Voice - Toronto Series)
ACMRS Publications, 2011. This excellent collection of essays and texts surveys the culture and intellectual context of early modern Italy in order to render more intelligible the writing of Italian women. The role of women in society and the persistent misogyny even of the most pro-woman texts are explored in..... More
Ancient Books and Records of Qing Dynasty
Forbidden City Publishing House, 2000. More
Here I Am: A Novel
New York: Picador, 2017. A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American..... More
Sculptures in the Collection of the Palace Museum
Forbidden City Publishing House, 2012. More
Gramsci and Languages
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. Winner of the prestigious 'Giuseppe Sormani International Prize' for the best monograph on Antonio Gramsci (4th edition, 2012-2017). Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is one of the most translated Italian authors of all time. After the Second World War his thought became increasingly influential, and remained relevant throughout..... More
Fierce: The History of Leopard Print
2018. In this lush compendium illustrated with full-color images, the author of The Burlesque Handbook chronicles the history of one of the world’s most beloved fashion patterns—leopard print—celebrating its beauty and place in couture, and the women who have dared to wear it. In nature, the distinctive markings on..... More
The Forbidden City Treasure: Classics of the Forbidden City
Forbidden City Publishing House. More
Crossover
2013. In this long-awaited follow-up to the enormously popular informal, designer, writer, and engineer Cecil Balmond invites readers into his creative process as he documents his most innovative projects in art, architecture, and bridge design. Hailed by friend and frequent collaborator Rem Koolhaas as having "almost single-handedly shifted the..... More