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A Dialogue with the Past: the First 100 Japanese Prints
Art Media Resources, Inc., 2007. In this ground breaking book the career and work of contemporary woodblock print artist Paul Binnie (1967-present) is presented. Binnie's complete Japanese prints are illustrated in colour and many other reference photographs are provided as well, ensuring that the reader is given an insight into..... More
Things Chinese
New York: Doubleday and Co., 1980. More
The Migrant's Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts)
Clark Art Institute, 2011. The conditions of alienation and exclusion are inextricably linked to the experience of the migrant. This ground-breaking volume explores both the increasing emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject matter in art as well as the ways in which the varied mobilities of..... More
Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: With a Catalogue of the C.F. Bieber Collection
Floating World Editions, 2006. Although the Japanese belt ornaments known as netsuke have long been popular with collectors and much written about, the Chinese toggles which preceded them have gone little noticed. Professor Cammann's long out of print work was the first book in any Western language to discuss them..... More
The Bauhaus in Calcutta
In December 1922, the 14th Annual Exhibition of the lndian Society of Oriental Art was held in Calcutta. Drawing a huge crowd from Calcutta’s lively cultural milieu and its high society, the exhibition was divided into two sections: contemporary art from the Bengal school-- Nandalal Bose, Sunayani Devi, and Abanindranath..... More
Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility
What does it mean to be a designer in today's corporate-driven, overbranded global consumer culture? Citizen Designer, attempts to answer this question with more than seventy debate-stirring essays and interviews espousing viewpoints ranging from the cultural and the political to the professional and the social. This new edition contains a...... More
Colorful, Elegant, and Exquisite: A Special Exhibition of Imperial Enamel Ware from Mr. Robert Chang's Collection
Forbidden City Publishing House. More
The Monkey King: 72 Transformations of the Mythical Hero
Insight Editions, 2012. The Monkey King: 72 Transformations of the Mythical Hero collects the work of 72 artists from around the world. The result is a stunning collection of different interpretations, styles, and media. The Monkey King: 72 Transformations of the Mythical Hero collects the work of 72 artists..... More
汉唐之间的视觉文化与物质文化 Between Han and Tang: Visual and Material Culture in a Transformative Period
Cultural Relics Publishing House, 2003. More
中国绘画中的“女性空间” Feminine Space in Chinese Painting
Art Media Resources, Inc., 2019. Essays in Chinese on feminine space. According to Wu Hung, feminine space denotes an actual or imaginary space, which is perceived and represented as a woman. A feminine space is a spatial entity — an artificial world comprised of landscape, vegetation, architecture, atmosphere, climate, color..... More
On Chinese Art: Cases and Concepts (Volume 1 Methodological Reflections)
Art Media Resources, Inc., 2016. Cloth. About this Series Consisting of three volumes, On Chinese Art features 56 essays (presented as chapters) written by the art historian Wu Hung after he moved to the United States in the 1980s. Selected by the author himself, these essays have been organized in..... More
On Chinese Art: Cases and Concepts (Volume 2 Prehistoric to Han)
2018. About this Series: Consisting of three volumes, On Chinese Art features 56 essays (presented as chapters) written by the art historian Wu Hung after he moved to the United States in the 1980s. Selected by the author himself, these essays have been organized in a format that emphasizes..... More
Photography and East Asian Art
Chicago: Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, and Art Media Resources, Inc., 2021. Hardcover with Dust Jacket, 424 pages. Richly illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs of historical figures, texts, famous sites and masterworks, this volume examines photography’s profound impact on East Asian art and visual..... More
Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture
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
An Invisible Flower
Chronicle Books. Yoko Ono created An Invisible Flower when she was just nineteen years old, at the very start of her artistic career. Recently rediscovered in her archive by her son, Sean Lennon, who also provides a foreword, this jewel of a book tells the heartwarming story of the invisible..... More
San Diego Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection of Chinese Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. This catalog of the museum's renowned collection of Chinese art by an emeritus curator features color images of stunning works in every genre from calligraphy to Buddhist sculpture, and in materials from bronze to jade. Includes a 5,000-year chronology and a map. More
Kabuki: The Popular Stage of Japan
Arno Press, 1977. HB. Introduction by Laurence Binyon. Includes 50 black and white illustrations, bibliography and index. xvi + 3-385 pages (as published). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. More
故宫书画馆 The Calligraphy and Painting Gallery of the Palace Museum Part V
In English and Chinese
Forbidden City Publishing House, 2009. Chinese painting and calligraphy enjoy a long history. Both were derived from primitive symbols, nourished by Chinese civilization, executed with the same tools, i.e., brush pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and both were created using lines and strokes as basic elements. Chinese painting and calligraphy..... More