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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486440248Author Kakuzo OkakuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 136g

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is home to an important collection of artworks from South Asia that spans a large geographical area - comprising India and the countries that surround it - and more than four millennia. Among these objects are expressive...

Chris Hart's latest entry in his blockbuster series explodes with girl power! From fighters and princesses to magical characters and ordinary schoolgirls; manga features an array of female types and Hart goes step-by-step through the techniques for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840683080Author Jack HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint ShinbakuPublisher Creation BooksWeight(grams) 602g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615510934Author Hiroko IkegamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Samuel Dorsky Museum of ArtPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(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...

This collection of essays, based on international collaboration by scholars in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States, is a systematic, interdisciplinary attempt to address the social, political, and spiritual significance of the modern arts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981865485Author Jason C KuoFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 654g

Radicals and Realists is the first book in any language to discuss Japan's avant-garde artists, their work, and the historical environment in which they produced it during the two most creative decades of the twentieth century, the 1950s and 1960s. After...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674422827Author Benjamin RowlandFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 404g

For centuries, the art and culture of China and Japan have exerted a particular fascination on the West. Items from Imperial China once filled the porcelain cabinets of European courts, and Japanese painting and woodcarving made their way to Europe in...

Manga and anime (illustrated serial novels and animated films) are highly influential Japanese entertainment media that boast tremendous domestic consumption as well as worldwide distribution and an international audience. Drawing on Tradition examines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674437289Author Langdon WarnerFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1238g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620700047Author Zena Velloo JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Poets PrinteryPublisher Poets PrinteryWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784770030405Author Masashi KumaFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Kodansha International LtdPublisher Kodansha America, IncWeight(grams) 906g

The word Meiji means 'enlightened government' and the new Japanese government of 1868 had as a primary aim the bringing of Japan into a new group of modern western industrial powers. The Meiji Restoration in Japan in 1868 led to a demonstration to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show - Trade Illustrated 2008 and The Alcuin Society Citations for Excellence in Book Design in Canada - Third Prize in the Pictorial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512810721Author W. Norman BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356753532Author Mantri Pragada MarkandeyuluFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint WritatPublisher WritatWeight(grams) 345g

Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters examines how energy use in the ceramics-making industry has evolved as a result of technological advancements and changing social norms and ideas in environmental conservation. Three main research themes are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733644624Author Yinuo TianFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Arnica PressPublisher Arnica PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241099626Author Sadakichi HartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781300028079Author Stepro DesignsFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615434629Author Jonathan C BannisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Aishinkai PublicationsPublisher Aishinkai PublicationsWeight(grams)...

The ukiyo-e artist Isoda Koryusai produced thousands of designs between 1769 and 1781, a crucial period in the evolution of the print tradition, and was honored with the imperial title of hokkyo, yet he has been long neglected by scholars. Allen Hockley...

South of the Sahara opens with general observations on the immensely rich and diversified artistic heritage of sub-Saharan Africa. Constantine Petridis examines the relationship between contemporary and so-called traditional African arts, and presents...

An examination of Japanese contemporary art through the lens of ecocriticism and environmental history Collectively referred to by the word tsuchi, earthy materials such as soil and clay are prolific in Japanese contemporary art. Highlighting works of...

Winner of the 2006 Shimada Prize from the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Kyoto, JapanWinner of the 2006 John Whitney Hall Book Prize from the Association for Asian StudiesChikubushima,...

From the emergence of pop art in the 1950s through to its reinvented forms in the 1980s, Pop to Popism explores the dynamic engagement of art with popular culture. Drawn from major public and private collections around the world, Pop to popism includes...

This is a discussion of the contribution and effects of East Asian art on American culture. Warren Cohen portrays the assembling of the great American collections of East Asian art and explains how this art became part of the cultural consciousness of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990421450Author H E DaveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Michi PublishingPublisher Michi PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692298152Author Martine Le CozFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Ethnic Arts Foundation PressPublisher Ethnic Arts Foundation PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595144211Author Ben WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 143mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971939776Author Julia F. AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchivePublisher...

Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler and cleric Abbe Huc exclaimed: "There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entertainments as the Chinese." Although the spectacle of...

Museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe.Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turns to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512810882Author Schuyler V R CammannFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

Following India's independence in 1947, Indian artists creating modern works of art sought to maintain a local idiom, an "Indianness" representative of their newly independent nation, while connecting to modernism, an aesthetic then understood...

The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures traces the three-thousand-year history of the emperor's imperial collection, from the Bronze Age to the present. The tortuous story of these treasures involves a succession of dynasties, invasion and...

Max Loehr (1903-1988), the most distinguished historian of Chinese art of his generation, is celebrated above all for a 1953 art historical study of Chinese bronzes that effectively predicted discoveries Chinese archaeologists were about to make. Those...