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This stunning catalogue presents an exceptional collection of rare Burmese silver. Accompanied by detailed photographs and explanatory texts, this ground-breaking book proposes a new way of looking at Burmese silver. Names, dates, places, and stories...

The beauty and evolution of an intriguing art form.The MontrA (c)al Botanical Garden's collections of bonsai and penjing are among the best in North America, including more than 350 trees, some dating from the 17th century. For the first time, these...

The first monograph showcasing the visceral, exciting, and chaotic paintings of Mu Pan Drawing inspiration from nature, Japanese Kaiju films, samurai iconography, and mythology, Taiwanese-born and Brooklyn-based artist Mu Pan invites viewers to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626542839Author Stephen AddissFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Collecting 100 full-color pages and featuring 48 different Japanese manga and anime artists, Black Tights features some of the best illustrators in Japan. With stockings as their primary themes, WIDE focuses on thighs. Overseen by cover artist and art...

Garland of Visions explores the generative relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in the construction and circulation of visual knowledge in medieval South Asia. Shifting away from the traditional connoisseur approach,...

Latin America sits at the centre of the third wave of democratisation beginning in the early 1980s. It has advanced farther than any other region of the world in its accountability processes for past human rights violations perpetrated during...

As world attention focuses on the economic development and massive cultural upheavals of China, all of which are embodied in the transformation of Beijing prior to the 2008 Olympics, Chinese artists have emerged after years of containment by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891640599Author Thomas S. EliasFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Floating World EditionsPublisher Floating World EditionsWeight(grams)...

During the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the censorious attitude that characterized China's post-1989 official response to contemporary art gave way to a new market-driven, culture industry valuation of art. Experimental artists who once...

The Brer Rabbit stories were originally oral tales told by slaves from the American South. In this powerful rendering for children and adults, writer and griot Arthur Flowers re-tells them as wisdom tales for a contemporary audience, bringing them back...

Facing China is an exploration of the portrait arts in China from the dynastic to the modern and contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography and video. The book focuses on truth and memory in the portraiture process, from encounters between...

In The Concealed Art of the Soul, Jonardon Ganeri presents a variety of perspectives on the nature of the self as seen by major schools of classical Indian philosophy. For Indian thinkers, a philosophical treatise about the self should not only reveal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638571919Author Shengtian ZhengFormat HardbackPage Count 342Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 785g

Central to the stories of many of the world's great art galleries are the acquisitions and bequests that shaped their collections. So it is with M+ - a new museum of visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong - and the M+ Sigg...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951038809Author VariousFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Clover PressPublisher Clover Press

"I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Whether used as a reference or a beautiful keepsake, it's a very worthy addition to the world of Mah Jongg." --Ruth Unger, President, National Mah Jongg LeagueThis is the first book to fully capture the story of the...

ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s, is the first large-scale historical survey in the United States dedicated to the German artist group Zero (1957-66). Founded by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene, joined by Gunther Uecker in 1961, the group expanded to...

A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century ChinaThe Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving behind an architectural legacy without equal, from palaces, temples, and pagodas to pavilions, tombs, and...

A unique and visionary generation of young Chinese artists are coming to prominence in the art world - just as China cements its place as the second largest art market on the planet. Building on the new frontiers opened up by the Chinese artists of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385285486Author Anjali KaroliaPage Count 686Imprint Niyogi BooksPublisher Niyogi BooksDimensions(mm) 260mm * 190mm * 60mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506726557Author Hiroaki SamuraFormat HardbackPage Count 656Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The market for contemporary Chinese art is one of the fastest-growing internationally, attracting buyers from all over the world, including, increasingly, from within China itself. There are thriving artistic communities in major cities throughout China,...

A stunning visual biography of one of Japan's most famous historical artists, this book beautifully illustrates the story of Katsushika Hokusai.Enter the world of Katsushika Hokusai - the enigmatic creator of Japanese art's all-time most iconic image...

The Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete English 9 Student Book embeds a solid foundation at Lower Secondary level and helps students reach their full potential, as well as preparing them to progress seamlessly to IGCSE (R) English. This resource fully...

This publication was published to accompany the exhibition Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, at Kettle's Yard 12 November 2019 - 2 February 2020, curated by Devika Singh with Amy Tobin and Grace Storey. Through photography, sculpture,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683259268Author Robert WeinsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

This volume commemorates a new exhibition of Burmese artifacts at the Musee Guimet in Paris and showcases the vibrant art and manuscript traditions of Myanmar. The central pieces displayed in the exhibition were three richly illustrated manuscripts...

The transformation of China from a major site for clothing manufacture to an intensely fashion consuming society has been widely documented. Less has been written about the making of Chinese fashion. In Fashion in Multiple Chinas, expert authors explore...

A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of the eraIn the long eighteenth century, artists from Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626549944Author John StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857247724Author Francesco Paolo CampioneFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1800g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908175762Author Roaring LionFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint CYPI PressPublisher CYPI Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611803877Author Konchog LhadrepaFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

This book explores the ways in which Nordic private collectors displayed their collections of Chinese objects in their homes.This leads to a reconsideration of how to define collecting and display by analysing the difference between objects serving as...

The Walters Art Museum is among America's most distinctive museums, forging connections between people and art from cultures around the world and spanning seven millennia. The museum features a stunning array of objects, from richly illuminated Qur'ans...

Introducing the major works and currents of Joseon painting, Pathways to Korean Culture explores the various social, cultural and political perspectives of this dynamic, dynastic era (1392-1910), uncovering the fascinating history of more than 500 years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506721019Author Hiroaki SamuraFormat HardbackPage Count 664Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788192510767Author Rajesh Kumar SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Hari Sena Press Private LimitedPublisher Hari Sena Press Private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726310Author Hamad Hassan RindFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 135g