Explore publications in the UChicago CAEA Symposia Series, featuring scholarship developed from symposia organized by the Center for the Art of East Asia (CAEA) at the University of Chicago.
Art Media Resources, Inc., 2019. hardbound with dust jacket; 265 pages with color photos. As multi-functional as they are artistically important, folding and standing screens assume a variety of roles unique to the cultures of East Asia. Frequently used in dwellings, temples, and tombs, East Asian screens have a rich..... More
Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, and Art Media Resources, Inc., 2019. Within the realm of Buddhist art, death is often portrayed not as the end but instead as a new beginning. Examining how pre-modern East Asians related to death as a broad concept is often..... More
Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, and Art Media Resources, Inc., 2025. Hardcover. 412 pages, 14 chapters. This volume brings together leading scholars to investigate how emotions are expressed, mediated, and theorized in the visual arts of China from antiquity to the modern era. Inspired by..... More
Art Media Resources, Inc. 7.25 x 10.5", 240 pp., 100 color/BW illustrations, index, authors, pictorial boards, d.j., Chicago, 2013. Much attention has been given to the importance of emulation of the past in East Asian history. Study and interpretation of the past are now recognized as persistent forces in the..... More
University of Chicago Press. 7.5 x 10.5", 360 pp., 30 color illustrations, 120 b/w illustrations, hardcover, d.j., Chicago, 2009. Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II examines multiple dimensions of visual modernity in East Asia from the nineteenth century through the early decades of..... More
Art Media Resources, Inc. 7.25 x 10.5", 208 pp., color illustrations, index, authors, pictorial boards, d.j., Chicago, 2012. The essays in this collection examine a broad spectrum of artwork, sharing secrets for "seeing" the arts of Asia as practiced by professional historians of Asian art. Here the novice and the..... More
Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, and Art Media Resources, Inc., 2026. Hardbound, with dust jacket. 408 pages, 16 chapters. Now available for shipping! This volume brings together leading curators and scholars to explore the global formation and ongoing transformation of East Asian art history..... More
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
University of Chicago Press. 7.25 x 10.5”, 399 pp., 150+ images (most in color), hardcover w/ jacket, Chicago, 2013. The tenth century was a period of extensive change in East Asia, in which China was divided into regional kingdoms with the fall of the Tang dynasty in 907 and powerful..... More
Art Media Resources, Inc. 7.5 x 10.5", 384 pp., fully illustrated with b/w figures and line drawings, endnotes after each chapter, index, boards, d.j., Chicago, 2010. Much attention has been given to the importance of emulation of the past in Chinese history. Study and interpretation of the past are now..... More