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TATTOO: The Iconography of Japan by Nobuyoshi Hamada 9784756258601
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756258601Author Nobuyoshi HamadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
Buddhism: A Journey Through Art by Rose M. Woodward 9781623717162
RRP: £56.99Booksplease Price: £36.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717162Author Rose M. WoodwardFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China by Margaret Hillenbrand
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.16When nations decide to disown their troubled pasts, how does this strategic disavowal harden into social fact? In Negative Exposures, Margaret Hillenbrand investigates the erasure of key aspects of such momentous events as the Nanjing Massacre, the... -
Hakuho Sculpture by Donald F. McCallum
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £34.12Hakuho Sculpture is the first book in any language devoted entirely to Japanese sculpture of the Hakuho period (c. 650-710 CE). It focuses on the stylistic development and aesthetic qualities of Buddhist imagery through a careful study of gilt-bronze... -
Birds of Edo: A Guide to Classical Japanese Birds PIE International 9784756253392
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £18.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756253392Author PIE InternationalFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
Grafted Arts: Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910 Holly Shaffer 9781913107284
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.63Conceptualizes "graft"- the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century IndiaGrafted Arts focuses on Maratha military rulers and British East India Company officials who used the arts to... -
Wonderland: The Art of Nanaco Yashiro by Nanaco Yashiro
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756255471Author Nanaco YashiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
Billy Johnson and His Duck are Explorers Mathew New 9781398203891
Booksplease Price: £6.15An all-ages, adventure-comedy graphic novel, Billy Johnson and His Duck Are Explorers has it all: humour, peril and out-of-this-world archaeological adventures (oh, and ducks!). Billy Johnson, the son of two world-famous explorers (who mysteriously... -
Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World by Rhiannon Paget
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £19.86A stunning introduction to the history of Japanese printmaking, with highlights from the de Young museum's vast collection In 1868, Japan underwent a dramatic transformation following the overthrow of the shogun by supporters of Emperor Meiji, marking... -
Geishas and the Floating World: Inside Tokyo's Yoshiwara Pleasure District Stephen Longstreet 9784805315439
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.05Geishas and the Floating World returns readers to a lost world of sensuality and seduction, rich with hedonism, abandon, and sexual and personal politics."Floating World" refers to Japan's traditional Geisha pleasure districts, but also to the artistic... -
Utamaro, Hokusai Hiroshige: Geisha, Samurai and the Culture of Pleasure by Francesco Paolo Campione 9788857249971
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857249971Author Francesco Paolo CampioneFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1660g -
The Golden Lands: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand & Vietnam by Vikram Lall
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £45.91Over the course of its 2,500-year history, Buddhism has found expression in countless architectural forms, from the great monastic complexes of ancient India to the fortified dzongs of Bhutan, the rock-carved temple grottoes of China, the wooden shrines... -
Designing Japan by Kenya Hara 9783037786116
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £19.78'Designing Japan' presents renowned designer Kenya Hara's vision of how his industry can support Japan in crafting a future founded on a unique philosophy of beauty as well as crowd-sourced wisdom from around the world. A master collaborator, meticulous... -
Maybe you will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir by Aron Goldfarb 9781912982059
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.63The remarkable autobiography of a Holocaust escapee. "Go on, my son. Maybe you will survive..." Aron Goldfarb was fifteen years old when he was ripped from his bed in Poland and forced to enter a Jewish work camp. Watching helplessly as Nazis... -
Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts by Leonard Koren 9780981484655
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £12.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981484655Author Leonard KorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Imperfect PublishingPublisher Imperfect PublishingWeight(grams) 199g -
Hiroshige's Japan: On the Trail of the Great Woodblock Print Master - A Modern-day Artist's Journey on the Old Tokaido Road Philippe Delord 9784805316290
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.50"Presented alongside Hiroshige's prints, with descriptions and context, Delord's work offers an absorbing contemplation of Japan's past and present via one legendary travel route, and shows how thoroughly upended our surroundings have been in what was,... -
Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns by Keiko Nitanai
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns uses hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information on colors, fabrics and embellishments to paint a portrait of Japanese culture, art and thought. Lavish classical patterns, sweeping scenes,... -
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das 9781526615657
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.54WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the... -
Much Maligned Monsters: History of European Reactions to Indian Art by Partha Mitter
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.79In this fascinating study, Partha Mitter traces the history of European reactions to Indian art, from the earliest encounters of explorers with the exotic. East to the more sophisticated but still incomplete appreciations of the early twentieth century... -
Buddhist Art of Tibet: In Milarepa's Footsteps, Symbolism and Spirituality Etienne Bock 9782080280947
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £25.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080280947Author Etienne BockFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1680g -
The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.95Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians and philosophers, an art historian convinced that the ultimate value of... -
Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present Day Valery Garrett 9780804852562
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.30Featuring over 450 archival photographs and line drawings, Chinese Dress traces the evolution of Chinese clothing from court and formal costumes to the everyday fashions of twenty-first century China.Author Valery Garrett skillfully weaves the story of... -
Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs: A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through the Ages Charles Alfred Speed Williams 9780804850070
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.45In Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs Fourth Edition, scholar C.A.S. Williams offers concise explanations of the important symbols and motifs relevant to Chinese literature, arts and crafts, and architecture. This reference book has been a standard among... -
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization by Heinrich Robert Zimmer 9780691176048
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.60A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to... -
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal 9781250811271
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250811271Author Edmund de WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting: A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition by Mai-Mai Sze 9780691018195
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.23Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan" (original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has translated and annotated the texts of instructions,... -
The Hare with Amber Eyes (Illustrated Edition): A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal 9780374168285
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £33.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374168285Author Edmund de WaalFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World by Laura Hoptman 9780870709128
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.15Timeless Painting presents the work of 17 contemporary painters whose works reflect a singular approach that is peculiarly of our time: they are a-temporal, a term coined by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, the originators of the cyberpunk aesthetic... -
Japanese Garden Design Marc Peter Keane 9784805314258
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Japanese Garden Design explains the theory, history, and intricacies of Japanese gardening through gorgeous photographs and expert commentary.The creation of a Japanese garden combines respect for nature with adherence to simple principles of aesthetics... -
Zhang, Huan by Yilmaz Dziewior
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £21.55Zhang Huan has emerged as one of the most important artists of the past decade, a fearless explorer of the limits of the human body and a key figure in the flourishing Chinese art scene. His earliest performances, including 12 Square Meters, 65... -
Chinese Architecture: A History by Nancy Steinhardt 9780691169989
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.65An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to todayThroughout history, China has maintained one of the world's richest built civilizations. The nation's architectural achievements range from... -
Pareidolia: A Retrospective of Both Beloved and New Works by James Jean by PIE Books
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756247131Author PIE BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books -
Reflections on Mughal Art & Culture by Roda Ahluwalia 9789389136784
Booksplease Price: £91.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389136784Author Roda AhluwaliaFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Niyogi BooksPublisher Niyogi BooksDimensions(mm) 280mm * 230mm * 30mm -
Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde by Susan Pack 9783836589529
Booksplease Price: £55.11At the intersection of the visual, graphic, and cinematic arts, film posters are a unique and thrilling record of a particular cultural Zeitgeist. This book brings together 250 posters from the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s to explore the... -
Contemporary Kogin-zashi: Modern Sashiko Beyond Filling in the Gaps by Shannon Leigh Roudhán & Jason Bowlsby
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.19Kogin-zashi is an iconic form of sashiko that is both functional and breathtakingly beautiful. Detailed photography and step-by-step visual instructions guide readers to create stunning projects using Kogin-zashi stitching.About the AuthorShannon Leigh... -
Threads of Awakening: An American Woman's Journey into Tibet's Sacred Textile Art by Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo 9781647420932
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.91What if you set out to travel the world and got sidetracked in a Himalayan sewing workshop? What if that sidetrack turned out to be your life's path-your way home? Part art book, part memoir, part spiritual travelogue, Threads of Awakening is a... -
Shunga + Bijinga: The Art of Japan Bob Bentley 9780957627550
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957627550Author Bob BentleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Kahboom LtdPublisher Kahboom Ltd -
Jade Life: An Englishman's Love Affair with China's National Treasure by Andrew Shaw 9789888552184
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.55Jade is often thought of as something ancient and gathering dust in museums, but in China it is a vibrant part of modern life. More jade has been carved this century than in the rest of human history combined. For Chinese people, jade represents... -
Seven Masters: 20th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection by Andreas Marks 9780989371872
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989371872Author Andreas MarksFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Books & ProjectsPublisher Books & ProjectsWeight(grams) 1928g -
Hiroshige: Nature and the City Jim Dwinger 9789493039988
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £44.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493039988Author Jim DwingerFormat HardbackPage Count 525Imprint LudionPublisher LudionWeight(grams) 3040g