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Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai by Wei-Cheng Lin 9780295993522
RRP: £54.00£47.19By the tenth century CE, Mount Wutai had become a major pilgrimage site within the emerging culture of a distinctively Chinese Buddhism. Famous as the abode of the bodhisattva Manjusri (known for his habit of riding around the mountain on a lion), the... -
Pintura Zen: Metodo y Arte del Sumi-E by Maria Eugenia Manrique 9788472456211
RRP: £26.95£22.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788472456211Author Maria Eugenia ManriqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Editorial KairosPublisher Editorial KairosWeight(grams) 780g -
Kama Sutra Magnet by Pavan Varma 9788174367068
RRP: £14.95£14.82Said to have been written sometime in the fourth century BC, the Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana is much more than a mere description of exotic sexual practices. It is an ancient classical work on the art of love. Written in the style of a scientific manual,... -
Indian Art of Delhi: The Official Catalogue of the Delhi Exhibition, 1902-03 by George Watt 9788120802780
£49.27Apologies 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 -
Divine Support: Ghurras - Wooden Churning-rod Holders from Nepal by Paul De Smedt 9788173031946
£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788173031946Author Paul De SmedtFormat PaperbackPage Count 461Imprint Books FaithPublisher Books FaithDimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm * 30mm -
Before and Beyond the Image: Aniconic Symbolism in Buddhist Art by Dietrich Seckel 9783907077139
£35.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783907077139Author Dietrich SeckelFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Museum Rietberg, SwitzerlandPublisher Museum Rietberg, Switzerland -
Royal Tombs of India: 13th to 18th Century by A. S. Bhalla 9780944142899
RRP: £42.00£40.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944142899Author A. S. BhallaFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Grantha CorporationPublisher Grantha CorporationWeight(grams) 967g -
Vishnu: Hinduism's Blue-Skinned Saviour by Joan Cummins 9781935677093
RRP: £75.00£52.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935677093Author Joan CumminsFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Mapin Publishing PvtPublisher Mapin Publishing PvtWeight(grams) 2129gDimensions(mm)... -
Art of Siberia by Valentina Gorbatcheva 9781646997336
£37.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646997336Author Valentina GorbatchevaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited -
Taiwan ART AND CIVILISATION by Hsiu-Huei Wang 9781646997008
£36.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646997008Author Hsiu-Huei WangFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited -
Chinese Art by Stephen W. Bushell 9781646996377
£36.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646996377Author Stephen W. BushellFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited -
Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom by Sung Po-Jen 9781556593789
RRP: £11.99£9.13Apologies 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 -
Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia by Iftikhar Dadi 9781469654119
£60.83This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and political developments. Art historian Iftikhar Dadi here... -
Masterworks from India and Southeast Asia by Kimberly Masteller 9780997249293
RRP: £27.99£25.74Spanning two millennia and the breadth of southern Asia, the thirty-seven masterworks presented here introduce the reader to the great artistic achievements of India and Southeast Asia. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is world-renowned for its Asian... -
Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram by Saloni Mathur 9780984755097
RRP: £23.99£21.19This volume juxtaposes for the first time two striking bodies of work by Delhi-based and internationally recognized contemporary artist Vivan Sundaram. Gagawaka, the first project, consists of twenty-seven sculptural garments made from a bizarre... -
Dreams and Diversions: Essays on Japanese Woodblock Prints by Andreas Marks 9780937108475
RRP: £39.00£34.73With 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... -
Studies in Chinese Archaeology and Art by William Watson 9780907132998
RRP: £50.00£47.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907132998Author William WatsonFormat HardbackPage Count 394Imprint Pindar PressPublisher Pindar Press -
Studies in Chinese Archaeology and Art: v.1 by William Watson 9780907132943
RRP: £50.00£47.21For more than forty years William Watson has occupied a unique place in the study and teaching of Chinese art in Great Britain. Professor Watson's publications cover a wide field, his command of Chinese, Japanese, Russian and western languages giving... -
Studies in Indian Sculpture and Painting by Douglas Barrett 9780907132509
RRP: £50.00£47.81Douglas Barrett was one of the leading western authorities on the arts of India. The articles brought together here are grouped into three separate sections. The first comprises six studies dealing with sculpture in North India. The following section... -
Studies in Persian Art, Volume II by B. W. Robinson 9780907132448
RRP: £60.00£57.56This second volume of Basil Robinson's Studies concentrates on Persian manuscript illumination, beginning with six studies of artists who worked in this medium. There then follows twenty-two studies of individual manuscripts, from the fourteenth century... -
Studies in the Art of China and South-east Asia: v. 2 by Michael Sullivan 9780907132424
RRP: £50.00£47.81This second volume of Professor Sullivan's studies covers his work on modern Chinese art and the art and archaeology of South-East Asia. The break between traditional Chinese painting and the European-influenced art of the twentieth century is charted in... -
Studies in the Art of China and South-east Asia: v. 1 by Michael Sullivan 9780907132417
RRP: £50.00£47.81Professor Sullivan is a leading authority on the art of China, and has published a number of standard works on both traditional and modern Chinese art. These two volumes bring together for the first time his papers on the subject, and include a number of... -
Art of Exile: Paintings by Tibetan Children in India by Clare Harris 9780890133521
RRP: £30.99£25.28This is a wonderful book that enables the reader to understand the sad situation of Tibet through the eyes of the Tibetan school children. Many of these children suffer from the separation and loss of their families in Chinese-occupied Tibet. The book... -
Made for Maharajas: A Design Diary of Princely India by Amin Jaffer 9780865651746
RRP: £65.00£44.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865651746Author Amin JafferFormat HardbackPage Count 275Imprint Vendome PressPublisher Vendome PressWeight(grams) 2041gDimensions(mm) 298mm * 260mm * 32mm -
The Art of India: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond by Joseph M. Dye 9780856675393
RRP: £65.00£51.53This is a comprehensive catalogue of the important collection of Indian art in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and a celebration of the diverse cultures that coexist in India. An introductory essay is followed by the art objects presented in four... -
Japanese Popular Prints: From Votive Slips to Playing Cards by Rebecca Salter 9780824830830
RRP: £39.95£33.32In the West, Japanese woodblock printing tends to be associated with the ukiyo-e tradition and the familiar portrayals of kabuki actors or courtesan beauties. These well-known images were produced by a publisher and artist using the extraordinary skills... -
Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan by Dora C. Y. Ching 9780691177557
RRP: £75.00£59.09An in-depth look at the dynamic cultural world of tea in Japan during its formative period Around Chigusa investigates the cultural and artistic milieu in which a humble jar of Chinese origin dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century became... -
Art and Archaeology of the Erligang Civilization by Kyle Steinke 9780691159942
RRP: £55.00£43.91Named after an archaeological site discovered in 1951 in Zhengzhou, China, the Erligang civilization arose in the Yellow River valley around the middle of the second millennium BCE. Shortly thereafter, its distinctive elite material culture spread to a... -
The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture by Jerome Silbergeld 9780691158594
RRP: £78.00£61.37The family model has been central to patterns of social organization and cultural articulation throughout Chinese history, influencing all facets of the content and style of Chinese art. With contributors drawn from the disciplines of art history,... -
Crossing the Sea: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu by Gregory P. A. Levine 9780691156538
RRP: £80.00£63.49Yoshiaki Shimizu, one of the foremost scholars of Japanese art history, taught at Princeton University for more than twenty-five years, during which time he trained many students who have become respected professors and museum professionals. Crossing the... -
Searching for Modernity: Western Influence and True-View Landscape in Korean Painting of the Late Choson Period by Song-Mi Yi 9780295993935
RRP: £58.00£53.96Korean painters participated in two major cultural trends of the late Choson period in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: inquiry into things Korean and investigation of things Western. Departing from Chinese sources long considered authoritative,... -
Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia by Louise Allison Cort 9780295990422
RRP: £32.00£29.53A remarkable group of seven bronze figures was unearthed in Kampong Cham province, Cambodia, in 2006. These sixth- and seventh-century Buddhist sculptures, two of which were Chinese, ultimately were acquired by the National Museum of Cambodia. There they... -
Exploring Central Asia: From the Steppes to the High Pamirs, 1896-1899 by Esther Fihl 9780295990002
RRP: £103.00£92.04In the 1890s, the Danish lieutenant Ole Olufsen set out to lead two expeditions to Tsarist Central Asia. Exploring areas that were still blank on European and Russian maps, the participants spent more than a year traveling on horseback in the pamirs and... -
Tradition and Transformation: Studies in Chinese Art in Honor of Chu-Tsing Li by Judith G. Smith 9780295985732
£48.48Tradition and Transformation commemorates Chu-Tsing Li's achievements as an educator and scholar with essays by friends and former students, marking his long teaching career at the University of Kansas and, in particular, his contribution to the field of... -
Bollywood's India: A Public Fantasy by Priya Joshi 9780231169608
RRP: £88.00£71.59Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate public fantasies of what constitutes "India."... -
The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism by Paul Copp 9780231162708
RRP: £62.00£48.62Whether chanted as devotional prayers, intoned against the dangers of the wilds, or invoked to heal the sick and bring ease to the dead, incantations were pervasive features of Buddhist practice in late medieval China (600-1000 C.E.). Material... -
A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film by Michael Berry 9780231141628
RRP: £100.00£78.33The 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... -
Paintings of Razmnama: In the Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata by Asok Kumar Das 9781890206789
RRP: £42.00£41.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890206789Author Asok Kumar DasFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Grantha CorporationPublisher Grantha CorporationWeight(grams) 1116gDimensions(mm)... -
Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Exhibition of Japanese Art Crafts by Nicole Rousmaniere 9780295987330
£42.54Japan has a long tradition of superb craft work in many media, including ceramics, textiles, laquerwork, metal, wood, glass, and bamboo. The worldwide appreciation and respect for Japanese crafts is embedded in Japanese social mores and culture. Crafting... -
Thawan Duchanee: Modern Buddhist Artist by Russell Marcus
£17.42Thai national artist Thawan Duchanee has spent his life creating art that deeply reflects Buddhist philosophy. He is internationally renowned, and his art is masterful both for its intricacy and for its subtle portrayal of Buddhism. The book examines...