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"The anthology edited by Nora Taylor and Boreth Ly emerges at a time when Southeast Asian contemporary art is gaining increasing visibility on the global art stage.... This volume serves as a reflective and critical body of essays that illuminates ways...

Apologies 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

Ananda 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...

A 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...

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,...

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...

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 9789460220517Author Koos van BrakelFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 1360g

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...

What 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...

Renowned photographer Jonathan M. Singer presents his striking black-and-white images of Chinese ornamental rocks from a leading collection. Shaped by nature and selected by man, scholars' rocks, or gongshi, have been prized by Chinese intellectuals...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903685573Author Terry ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Richard DennisPublisher Richard DennisWeight(grams) 971gDimensions(mm) 315mm * 235mm *...

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

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"...

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...

Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media-from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and annual observances. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo...

Korean artists are a permanent fixture on today's international art scene, as interest in modern and contemporary art from South as well as North Korea has grown in strength. Museums and individual collectors eager to tap into this rising market are...

This richly illustrated book explores the contested history of art and nationalism in the tumultuous last decades of British rule in India. Western avant-garde art inspired a powerful weapon of resistance among India's artists in their struggle against...

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...

Timeless 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...

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...

Paintings from the Indian subcontinent bedazzle the viewer with their minute details, colours and aesthetic qualities. Relatively modest in size, they often illustrate historical events, religious texts and poetry, or document life at court. Painted with...

An introduction to the theatrical art of comic storytelling that originated in the Edo period, Rakugo sheds light on Japanese culture as a whole: its aesthetics, social relations, and learning styles. Enriched with personal anecdotes, Rakugo explicates...

The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as a human of the future Gotama Buddha, and his extreme...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493039902Author Chris UhlenbeckFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint LudionPublisher LudionWeight(grams) 1680g

Diary of A Young Artist is a beautiful reproduction of the diary notes and sketches of Vietnamese war artist Pham Thanh Tam, created in the Vietminh trenches while on the front line of the decisive battle of Dien Bien Phu.About the AuthorPham Thanh Tam,...

Maps are the manifestation of an intellectual construct of physical and metaphysical environments. They are rich cultural objects presenting and transmitting information about time and place of production. A map is not neutral - it is an interactive,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951757298Author VinneFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Clover PressPublisher Clover Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873132388Author Paul JettFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications LtdWeight(grams) 1116g

Sustaining Landscapes: Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 960-1368 CE examines ecological thinking in Chinese landscape art related to state finance, resource management, and geospatial knowledge. It explores sustainability in policies,...

A unique survey of the explosion of avant-garde art in 1960s Japan. We've all heard of Paris 1968, but in Japan, a movement just as revolutionary, interesting and enduring was underway. The turbulent times of the post-war era inspired an artistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355325921Author Nitin SinghaniaFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint McGraw Hill Education IndiaPublisher McGraw Hill Education India

Buddhist Bells and Dragons: Under and Over Water, In and Out of Japan recovers the essential but unrecognized roles of Buddhist temple bells in the history of art, religious studies, and the history of interregional and international relations with Japan...

In Chinese painting there is no clear desire to separate the subjective world and the objective world. Rather, there is a constant, conscious play between the physical reality of the world and the subjective vision of the artist. The artist is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888842919Author Lauren WaldenFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press

Traditional woodblock printing is a Chinese folk art that has now nearly vanished. The London-based Muban Educational Trust holds a rich collection of popular prints from this tradition. Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints reproduces eighty-four...

Visioning Israel-Palestine strives to cultivate recognition of the part that cultural products have played in the duplication of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While this conflict is one of the longest-lasting struggles over land and human rights in...