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Featuring 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...

In 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...

An 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...

Apologies 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

At 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...

Jade 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...

The gorgeously illustrated contemporary edition of an ancient Chinese text-for fans of fantastic beasts everywhere Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas is a new translation for contemporary readers of a classic Chinese text that is at once the...

Challenging the Western view of idols as objects of worship, this book explores the role that male idols play in fashion and cosmetics brand marketing in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau; including the role of the female gaze. It examines idols in...

In the late 1970s, at the close of the Cultural Revolution, a group of young, largely auto-didact artists in China endeavored to create artwork that would depart from present norms and reflect individual ideals. It was a period of hope for the future,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934774267Author Katherine Anne PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Birmingham Museum of ArtPublisher Birmingham Museum of ArtWeight(grams) 272g

What does the current Chinese art scene look like? What talents can you discover here? The art platform BMCA regularly organises art exhibitions and projects that give Chinese artists the opportunity to present themselves. Based on selected works from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038522Author Marie LeducFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Fist academic study on modernity at the Shanghai Art College The Shanghai Art College was one of the most important art schools in Republican China. This is the first academic study written on the early history of the College. It makes a major...

In the past twenty years, work on the local culture of central Hunan has been one of the most exciting sources for rethinking the nature and variety of Chinese local society. At the heart of this society is a kind of statuary found nowhere else in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913536121Author Avril LeeFormat HardbackImprint Artpower International PublishingPublisher Artpower International Publishing

Internationally renowned and a crucial classroom text, The Arts of China has been revised and expanded by the late Michael Sullivan, with Shelagh Vainker. This new, sixth, edition has an emphasis on Chinese art history, not as an assemblage of related...

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939117871Author Mark Dean JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Asian Art Museum of San FranciscoPublisher Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

This richly illustrated book showcases a previously unseen and virtually unknown historical collection of Chinese ceramics, formed in the early twentieth century by George Eumorfopoulos, a pivotal figure in the appreciate of Asian art. Taken together,...

The Chinese picture-scroll, a long painting or calligraphic work held within a horizontal scrolling mount, has been China's pre-eminent aesthetic format for the last two millennia. This first extended history of the picture-scroll explores its...

Rome and China provides an updated history and analysis of contacts and mutual influence between two of ancient Eurasia's most prominent imperial powers, Rome and China.It highlights the extraordinary interconnectivity of ancient Eurasia which allowed...

The emergence of bronze ware forms a crucial chapter in the history of human civilization. Although not the first country to enter the Bronze Age, China enjoys a unique position in world history because of the great variety of innovative and beautiful...

This revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of cinema in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as to disaporic and transnational Chinese film-making, from the beginnings of cinema to the present day. ...

Forty years after China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution, this book revisits the visual and performing arts of the period - the paintings, propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture, folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet. Probing...

During the Ming Dynasty numerous new animal themes were created to convey political and ethical messages current at court. As the result a sophisticated language of Chinese animal painting was developed, employing both the animals' symbolic associations...

From the 1980s, many Chinese artists have experimented with a range of unconventional materials. Their works-in plastic, paper, silk, ash, and tobacco-form a major trend in Chinese art. The Allure of Matter offers the first serious consideration of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963837Author Kai-Yin LoFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 376g

Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) was the first artist of the Chinese diaspora to achieve international recognition and was one of France's most important painters of the postwar era and beyond. His large abstract canvases were in step with those of New York School...

How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia. This book opens in eleventh-century China, where scholars were the first in world history to systematically illustrate and document...

The northern Chinese mountain range of Mount Wutai has been a preeminent site of international pilgrimage for over a millennium. Home to more than one hundred temples, the entire range is considered a Buddhist paradise on earth, and has received visitors...

Drawing from Life explores revolutionary drawing and sketching in the early People's Republic of China (1949-1965) in order to discover how artists created a national form of socialist realism. Tracing the development of seminal works by the major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997496246Author Jason C KuoFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint New Academia Publishing/ The SpringPublisher New Academia Publishing/ The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887341477Author Jia Ming WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Mingmandarin.comPublisher Mingmandarin.comWeight(grams) 163g

As one of the few ancient civilizations in the world, China features a multidimensional cultural deposit in consistency and unification, endowing her history with a sense of perplexity and enchantment. Together in this book, we shall follow the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957144634Author Jing WuFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Asian Culture PressPublisher Asian Culture PressWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781678058593Author Xuanjun XieFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887341453Author Jia Ming WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Mingmandarin.comPublisher Mingmandarin.comWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887341422Author Jia Ming WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Mingmandarin.comPublisher Mingmandarin.comWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989763100Author Yunfeng ZhaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Canada International PressPublisher Canada International PressWeight(grams) 299g