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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 *...

"Our first encounter with these Tibetan medical paintings is filled with delight, wonder, and pleasure. Their boisterous colors, their exquisite detail, their marvelous array of subject matter, the often playful and energetic figures that people them -...

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...

Since the beginning of China's economic boom in the late 1980s and its ever-increasing influence on globalized society, the country's burgeoning contemporary art scene has attracted great attention around the world. However, despite the Chinese art...

The MFA's holdings of Japanese art make up the finest and most comprehensive collection outside of Japan. This stunning overview features many of the collection's best-known and most beloved works, including such rare paintings as the eighth-century...

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

"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...

A guide to the Freer/Sackler's richly diverse collection of Buddhist art fromJapan, China, and Korea, as well as Indian/South Asia. Paths to Perfection: Buddhist Art at the Freer Sackler introduces readers to Buddhist art through the celebrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120802780Author George WattFormat HardbackPage Count 569Imprint Motilal Banarsidass PublicationsPublisher Motilal Banarsidass Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789163972027Author Kurt AlmqvistFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 2580g

Korea's transformation over the last thirty years has been unique in the world and this is the most comprehensive English language survey of contemporary art from Korea ever published120 artists, museum and gallery directors, curators and collectors are...

Multiple Impressions examines works by 40 leading printmakers from contemporary China, highlighting the extraordinary innovations, in both technique and conception, which have transformed this long-established art form in recent years. It includes works...

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...

Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting accompanies the first comprehensive exhibition of artwork by Xu Beihong hown outside Asia. It highlights a selection of 61 Chinese ink paintings, oil paintings, drawings, and pastels from the Xu Beihong...

An overview of Chinese culture, particularly visions of life and the afterlife, told through feast imagery from three historically transformative dynasties Feasting was an important social and ritual activity in China beginning in the Bronze Age, and...

Kabuki's Nineteenth Century examines the theater culture of nineteenth-century Japan from the perspective of the history and materiality of the book, the nature of reception, and the making and making use of images. The aim of this book is to rediscover...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857245577Author Necmi SonmezFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1350g

In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a...

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

Statues, paintings, and masks-like the bodies of shamans and spirit mediums-give material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and sometimes these objects are understood to be enlivened, agentive on their own terms. This book explores how...

The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of...

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...

Founded in 1933, the Seattle Art Museum is home to a premier collection of Chinese art. This book is the first to chronicle and analyze the growth of the collection, which was largely assembled during the first half of the twentieth century. Reviewing...

Japanese men have been marked by tattoo artists for the past 300 years. Today's urbane Japanese youth continue the tradition, proudly creating and wearing this ever changing art form. Over 530 breathtaking color photos display a vast range of Japanese...

Secrets of the Sacred illuminates the role of icons and relics in Buddhist writing and practice, with particular attention to the transformation of inanimate material images into potent icons animated by the divine. The earliest canonical scriptures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593789Author Sung Po-jenFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 382g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784770031334Author Daniel W. KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Kodansha International LtdPublisher Kodansha America, IncWeight(grams) 987g

Showcasing more than thirty ancient bronzes from the exceptional holdings of the Shanghai Museum, this generously illustrated book offers a compelling overview of the beauty of Chinese bronzes and the fascinating traditions surrounding them. These...

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...

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily...

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

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...

Taking an approach that is equal parts anthropological and art historical, this lavishly illustrated volume offers a rare look at the art, artifacts, and culture of the Naga people, an ethnic group spanning several tribes native to northeastern India and...

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...

Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation - the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923 - this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the...

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...

With the advent of ukiyo-e woodblock prints, art became accessible to Japan's burgeoning merchant classes. Though a uniquely Japanese art form, the prints reveal interests in celebrity, fashion, entertainment, and travel that have a universal human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857247298Author Hou-mei SungFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1060g

Winner of the R. L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Award sponsored by the Textile Society of AmericaAsia is renowned for the production of fine handwoven cottons and luxurious silks -- important items of trade for centuries. In addition to these celebrated...

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