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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780642334121Author Robyn J. MaxwellFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint National Gallery of AustraliaPublisher National Gallery of AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944142851Author Stephen P. HuylerPage Count 128Imprint Grantha CorporationPublisher Grantha CorporationWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 196mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496014515Author Alexander HofmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dietrich ReimerPublisher Dietrich ReimerWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496013822Author Clarissa Von SpeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint Dietrich ReimerPublisher Dietrich ReimerWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646997350Author Woldemar von SeidlitzFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

A revelatory reclaiming of five iconic Chinese artists and their place in art history During the 1980s and 1990s, a group of Chinese artists (Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Guangyi, Sui Jianguo, Zhang Peili, and Lin Tianmiao) ascended to new heights of...

This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. Leading scholar of Chinese art Wu Hung shows how the story of ruins in China is...

This innovative book narrates the history of a single object-a tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries-and describes how its role changed after it was imported to Japan and passed from owner to owner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646991341Author Vladimir LukoninFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams) 216g

This book is the first in a major three-volume series that will survey China's immense wealth of art, architecture, and artifacts from prehistoric times to the twentieth century. The Arts of China to A.D. 900 investigates the beginnings of the traditions...

Exploring in Chinese is an intermediate-level multimedia Chinese program consisting of a student text and accompanying DVD that uses unscripted dialogues as the basis for students to make the transition from the basic skills acquired at the elementary...

In this volume, William Watson and Chuimei Ho begin with discussions of "fine" art and painting and progress to an analysis of carving and sculpture, ceramics, glassware, and textiles. The authors demonstrate how, in the age of the Emperors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789745240582Author Kristiaan InwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Orchid Press Publishing LimitedPublisher Orchid Press Publishing...

Published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Alfred Baur's birth (1865-1951) and the 50th anniversary of the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Art, this book presents one of the major collections of Asian art through an opulent selection from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784770030719Author Claudia AlbertiniFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Kodansha International LtdPublisher Kodansha America, IncWeight(grams) 767g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631090Author Daniel ShapiroFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840683301Author Mark HejnarFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ShinbakuPublisher Creation BooksWeight(grams) 1244g

The "national drama" in China is a historical concept. Grown on longstanding Chinese culture and art, the traditional drama, mainly in the form of "opera", has been integrated with "drama" of an international background...

This text raises questions about artistic freedom and censorship. Wu Hung uses the Chinese government's cancellation of the exhibition "It's Me", Beijing 1998, to anchor his analysis of the challenges face by contemporary Chinese artisits and curators...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780909952389Author John ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Power Institute of Fine ArtsPublisher Power Institute of Fine ArtsWeight(grams) 1359g

Text in English & German. The way we sit simultaneously defines privileges, social status, power, and taboos. Parallel to the presentation of China as the guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284244Author Catherine S. ChanFormat HardbackPage Count 265Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951038823Author VariousFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Clover PressPublisher Clover Press

This volume examines the visual culture of Japan’s transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century.Through this important moment in Japanese history, contributors reflect on Japan’s transcultural artistic imagination...

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and...

Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players. However, Bunraku lacks scholarship dedicated to...

This title explores the curiosity and collaboration that has existed between East and West for centuries. The striking illustrated books, maps, and prints featured in China on Paper are some of the most notable among the printed works produced at the...

Since ancient times, Hindus have expressed their love and devotion to their deities through beautiful ornamentation-dressing and decorating the deities with elaborate clothing, jewelry, and flowers. In this pioneering study of temples in Vrindaban and...

A chance discovery of sixty-odd works of art in a filing cabinet in Kyoto University's Department of Geography in 2014 triggered an investigation which soon morphed into a multi-disciplinary research project seeking to understand their origins and...

Books on mural painting in Thailand have tended to focus on works commissioned by royalty or other elites from the centers of power. This volume is the first to examine a vibrant sub-school of painting from the rural heartland of the Northeastern Region,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732321236Author Carolyn VaughanFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Jordan Schnitzer Family FoundationPublisher Jordan Schnitzer Family...

The complexity and confusion of styles and intentions are true characteristics of modern Chinese art. Just as the definition of "modernity" was subjected to reinterpretations at various points in China's recent history, current notions of the canon are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646991815Author Edmond de GoncourtFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams)...

This volume deals with the development of Chinese theatre from 1900 to 1949, covering the prosperity of Peking Opera, the advent of play and colorful local dramas.Book InformationISBN 9781032237442Author Fu JinFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Taylor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714124766Author Timothy ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 566Imprint British Museum PressPublisher British Museum PressWeight(grams) 3070g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780642541741Author Deborah HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint National Gallery of AustraliaPublisher National Gallery of AustraliaWeight(grams) 1186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683259176Author Stephen W. BushellFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams) 205g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646995820Author Catherine NoppeFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams) 216g

The art world is currently enthralled with contemporary Chinese art. This thoughtful book argues, however, that American audiences have been exposed only to a narrow range of what is available-with the majority of attention having been given to...

In the literary and artistic milieu of early modern Japan the Chinese and Japanese arts flourished side by side. Kodojin, the "Old Taoist" (1865-1944), was the last of these great poet-painters in Japan. Under the support of various patrons, he composed...