Chinese Painting by Fang Zhao Ling
Hong Kong: 1988. More
Hong Kong: 1988. More
Cambridge University Press, 2000. The Arts of Collecting: Padre Sebastiano Resta and the Market for Drawings in Early Modern Europe examines the collecting of art works through an anthropological examination of modes of exchange and the social roles of material culture. Warwick illuminates a crucial chapter in the history of..... More
2014. When Cajun artist George Rodrigue began his series of Blue Dog paintings in 1984, he had no idea that they would consume the greater part of his life for over two decades, and that the mysterious Blue Dog—inspired by his studio dog-turned-model, Tiffany, and the Cajun loup-garou folk legend—would..... More
Forbidden City Publishing House, 2000. More
Forbidden City Publishing House. More
China 2000 Fine Art, 2007. More
Kehrer Verlag, 2011. For her series No Sleep, Hee Jin Kang photographs mattresses abandoned on the streets of New York City, mostly in Brooklyn. Kang's work reveals the unexpected beauty and strangeness of these found urban still lifes. The discarded beds are pathetic, monolithic, and architectural. They lay naked against..... More
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
"A very personal, whimsical exhibition by this well-known Japanese photographer that incorporates his own work with artifacts that he has collected over the years... as packed with goodies as the princely assemblages of art and curiosities brought together by European nobles in the 16th and 17th centuries." - Grace Glueck..... More
University of Washington Press, 2010. Hardcover. Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China is the first book in any language devoted to the art of imperial women in China. Utilizing a wide range of historical sources and materials, this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study pieces together a lost history of female..... More
Institute of Chinese Buddhist Culture. Hardcover. 書法是建立在漢字基礎上的藝術,除了其線條、布白的藝術美之外,內外更含有一定的思想,反映人們的審美與精神境界,藉以抒發內心的懷抱及理想。通過筆、墨、紙,印章構成黑、白、紅色的抽象化、符號化的藝術作品,經由文字交流,最能直接道出人生哲學意味,為東方藝術的精髓,在教化作用上有其獨特之處。 四十年前,中國佛教協會成立之初,便向全國佛教徒提出「莊嚴國土,利樂有情」的號召,希望佛教徒不僅致力於物質的文明,更當發揚國民的精神素養,今藉著「中國佛教文化出版有限公司」出版的《佛教嘉言書法集》,正好通過諸書法家的墨寶來從事「莊嚴國土,利樂有情」的事業。 《佛教嘉言書法集》選編了佛教經、論、語錄中有益於修身處世的嘉言一百零八條,分別恭請六十一位當代書法家書寫,其中有年逾九十的長者,有任務繁重的教授和專家等,難得他們都欣然命筆,透過豐富多采的書法藝術,表現佛教教義的內涵和人生哲理。 書中配以簡潔文字,清楚介紹各書法家及嘉言出處,令讀者賞玩書法之餘,又領悟修身養性的哲理,淨化心靈。本書於一九九三年榮獲「香港最佳印製書籍獎」。 Calligraphy is an art based on Chinese characters. In addition to the artistic beauty of its lines and white cloth, it also contains certain ideas inside and outside, reflecting people's aesthetic and..... More
London: 1974. Limited Edition - Only 1000 copies printed. More
Scala Publishers, 2009. More
Stone Publishing Co. Translated from English to Chinese. More
One of Chicago's premier art patrons and an architecture and interior design critic, Judith Neisser has amassed a remarkable collection of international contemporary art. More than 100 works are presented in this captivating, inside look at the Neisser family collection, highlighting paintings, sculpture, and works on paper from the 1960s..... More
Verso, 2003. More
Princeton University Art Museum, 2009. The art world is currently enthralled with contemporary Chinese art. This thoughtful book argues, however, that American audiences have been exposed only to a narrow range of what is available―with the majority of attention having been given to “avant-garde,” “experimental,” or politically charged art. Outside..... More