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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840683110Author Jack HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ShinbakuPublisher Creation BooksWeight(grams) 1378g

A complete history of the tea ceremony and teabowls with beautiful pieces from international potters. The teabowl has become an iconic form in contemporary ceramics. Having travelled from Japan, where it was an inherent part of chanoyu, or tea...

Chinese ceramics are among the most significant and widely collected decorative arts produced anywhere in the world, with a history that spans millennia. Despite the saturation of Chinese ceramics in global culture-in English, the word "china" has become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909741454Author Emily HannamFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Royal Collection TrustPublisher Royal Collection TrustWeight(grams) 1620g

Thread and Fire is a fascinating journey through the centuries-old trade networks that developed across a group of archipelagos along the equator. Of the 18,000 islands, more than 900 are permanently settled by over 360 ethnic groups, speaking 700...

"The written word is the most basic element of human culture. To touch the written word is to touch the essence of culture." - Xu Bing Book from the Sky certainly seemed to have fallen from the heavens: the text of this installation piece was...

Accompanying the first U.S. museum exhibition devoted to contemporary art from Pakistan, this dynamic catalogue provides a groundbreaking look at recent and current trends in Pakistani art. Hanging Fire covers a fascinating range of subjects and media,...

This compact reference explains the basic terms, processes, classifications, tools, materials and techniques of Japanese potters. Everyone interested in pottery and crafts will find this practical guide a valuable addition to both bookshelf and workshop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834804425Author Richard L. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804041Author Donald S. Lopez, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

This beautifully illustrated survey examines the art and artists of the Edo period, one of the great epochs in Japanese art. Together with the imperial city of Kyoto and the port cities of Osaka and Nagasaki, the splendid capital city of Edo (now Tokyo)...

Tibetan Buddhist art is not only rich in figural icons but also extremely diverse in its symbols and ritual objects. This first systematic review is an abundantly illustrated reference book on Tibetan ritual art that aids our understanding of its...

From Timur's tent in Samarqand to Shah 'Abbas's palace in Isfahan and Humayun's tomb in Delhi, the pavilion has been an integral part of Persianate gardens since its earliest appearance at the Achaemenid garden in Pasargadae in the sixth century BC...

Hakuho 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493039995Author Christoph RuysFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint LudionPublisher LudionWeight(grams) 1460g

In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, "The Great Image Has No Form" explores the "nonobject"...

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...

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 9789081054362Author M. Hesselt van DinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint HvD PublishingPublisher Mundurucu Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068327519Author Janneke van DijkFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 560g

With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756249661Author Pie InternationalFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books

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

In Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life Michael M. J. Fischer calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today. Fischer examines the work of key Southeast and East Asian...

craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of a Japanese farmer be thought beautiful? The late Soetsu Yanagi was the first to fully explore the traditional Japanese...

This is the first book in English to examine Gutai, Japan's best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings, performances, and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental...

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...

This wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific region in the age of imperialism. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, competing European empires...

Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political "hot zone," Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era. This book presents a timely and much-needed survey of the arts of...

This survey, spanning 4000 years, traces the rich visual expression of one of the world's most ancient cultures through the varied arts of India. From the beginnings in the Indus valley, through the masterpieces of Buddhist and Hindu art, to the coming...

Originally 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,...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756253927Author PIE InternationalFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.

What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of...

This extraordinary book features significant works of art from the Kobe City Museum, whose collection focuses on Western-style Japanese art created between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Japan Envisions the West considers how Japan encountered...

Zhang 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...

The Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME allows kids, teenagers, and adults to relive the exciting duels that take place in the animated Yu-Gi-Oh! series. Yu-Gi-Oh! THE ART OF THE CARDS collects the classic artwork of every real life playable card featured in...

In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China-the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756253408Author GuweizFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.