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The city of Baroda, with its vibrant history of art and architecture, is a much-sought-after destination for art education. This is due in large part to Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the maharaja of the erstwhile princely state of Baroda. His art-collecting...

The common denominator linking the artists in this book is that they all went to the Near East or North Africa and painted the experiences drawn from their travels. The 'Orient' in question covers a geographic area which spreads from the Balkans through...

This catalogue, accompanying the exhibition of the same title at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz (August 29 through December 16, 2012), examines the fifty-year career of Ushio Shinohara, an indispensable player in the field of global...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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 9780692298152Author Martine Le CozFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Ethnic Arts Foundation PressPublisher Ethnic Arts Foundation PressWeight(grams)...

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...

A catalogue of Chinese belt toggles in the Bieber collection.Book InformationISBN 9781512810882Author Schuyler V. R. CammannFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press

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...

By 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...

Said 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,...

Apologies 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

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Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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