Art Styles Not Defined by Date

The pre-Hispanic Mixtec people of Mexico recorded political and religious history, including the biographies and genealogies of their rulers, in pi...

The paintings of contemporary Thai artist Pichai Nirand (b. 1936) are a vivid exploration of the interplay between Thailands Buddhist roots and its...

This is the ninth part of the successful series supervised by Aiko Mabuchi, Director General, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, which prov...

Though the Drigung Kagyu was one of the most prominent and powerful schools of Tibetan Buddhism during its early period (12th - 14th century), its ...

In Zen Buddhism, the concept of freedom is of profound importance. And yet, until now there has been no in-depth study of the manifestation of this...

The book provides a comparison of contemporary art by analyzing female aesthetic subjectivity within a global context. The starting point is a comp...

Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany focuses on the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medici court of the later...

Comparing the radical aesthetic and social experiments undertaken by two exile intellectuals, Experiments in Exile charts a desire in their work to...

Theorizing vision and power at the intersections of the histories of psychoanalysis, media, scientific method, and colonization, Scenes of Projecti...

This volume covers Chinese art during the reign of the Sui and Tang Dynasties during which the various disciplines of plastic and performing arts a...

Art historian George A. Kubler (1912-1996) was a foundational scholar of ancient American art and archaeology as well as Spanish and Portuguese arc...

Ethereal sculptures and installations meditating on our sensory experiences Japanese artist Kohei Nawa (born 1975) explores scientific and digital...

War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of criti...

Moteuczoma, the last king who ruled the Aztec Empire, was rarely seen or heard by his subjects, yet his presence was felt throughout the capital ci...

With a career spanning more than 70 years, Liu Kuo-sung is a pioneering figure in modern Chinese ink. He has forged new ways of thinking about the ...

This book examines Marius Barbeaus career at Canadas National Museum (now the Canadian Museum of History), in light of his education at Oxford and ...

In 1639, while the Géluk School of the Fifth Dalai Lama and Qing emperors vied for supreme authority in Inner Asia, Zanabazar (1635-1723), a young ...

Gathered from across the centuries and around the world, this collection of Passover art and objects is at once a breathtaking visual treasury and ...

This innovative book narrates the history of a single objecta tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth ce...

Salish Blankets presents a new perspective on Salish weaving through technical and anthropological lenses. Worn as ceremonial robes, the blankets a...

A massive panorama of Native American art from Navajo weaving to Apache basketry Spanning nearly 1,000 years of artistic creativity, this wide-ran...

This stunningly illustrated new book focuses on 76 intricate, expressive and individual examples of calligraphy from the unparalleled collection of...

Where do we begin to talk about abstract art? This question depends on ones worldview. From the point of view of the collection included in this bo...

Lavishly illustrated with over 80 full-color images, this book includes original art and artifacts from the distant past as well as modern work by ...

How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era-which began roughly in 1872 with ...

How museums visual culture contributes to knowledge accumulation Sarita See argues that collections of stolen artifacts form the foundation of Am...

An exploration of the treasures of Japanese art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reveals a wealth of fascinating works dating from prehistoric tim...

The story of artists in Western Canada, and how they changed the face of Canadian artListen to the visual voices of artists. They tell us so poigna...

In February 1956 the president of IBM, Thomas Watson Jr., hired the industrial designer and architect Eliot F. Noyes, charging him with reinventing...

Sazigyo are fine, tablet-woven Burmese tapes used to bind the palm-leaf manuscripts of an earlier era. Tiny images and extended texts were deftly w...

If the source of manga and anime is physically located in Japan, the temptation for many critics and scholars is to ask what aspects of Japanese cu...

From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China....

Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals. Charting its historica...

The Annunciation: a specific event recounted in the Bible and often represented in artworks, but also the prototype of many other announcements thr...

In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants t...

Making a foundational contribution to Mesoamerican studies, this book explores Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptures, as well as indigenous and ...

Why do so many contemporary Chinese artists use porcelain in their work? In New Export China, Alex Burchmore presents a deep dive into a unique gen...

Winner of the 2023 IPPY Gold Religion Nonfiction category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Award Centuries of monumental sculpture, e...

A monumental gathering of more than 60 contemporary artists, photographers, musicians, writers and more, showcasing diverse approaches to Indigenou...

Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Painting the Gospel offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about African American art, theology...

In Maya theology, everything from humans and crops to gods and the world itself passes through endless cycles of birth, maturation, dissolution, de...

Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals. Charting its historica...

Mel Katz is a highly regarded Portland sculptor and teacher whose work is firmly rooted in the principles of geometric abstraction. He moved to Por...