Art Styles Not Defined by Date

An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito that documents Caspicara as a participant in the innovative artistic product...

Tokyo today is one of the world's mega-cities, and the centre of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture - but not everyone is aware of its past. Fou...

One of the most distinctive features of Islamic design is the evolution of an increasingly abstract and repetitive repertoire of motifs, which are ...

This beautiful collection of illustrated manuscripts takes the reader on a visual journey through great epics, charged romances and colourful cauti...

A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Addressing the history, impacts, and legacies of the Indian ...

Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence? In a series of letters to her father, her great-grandmothers, and her children-and to think...

Leng Bingchuan: Master of Chinese Black and White Painting is the most comprehensive collection of ink paintings he has created so far, containin...

For 125 years, the Museum of Decorative Arts (Kunstgewerbemuseum) at Dresden’s Pillnitz Palace has been home to a treasure trove of Japanese crafts...

Pepón Osorio is an internationally recognized artist whose richly detailed installations challenge the stereotypes and misconceptions that shape ou...

The pursuit of antiquity was important for scholarly artists in constructing their knowledge of history and cultural identity in late imperial Chin...

An artist travels to Communist China to learn the secrets of Chinese ink painting Was it really reasonable to drop everything overnight and go off...

This lively, lavishly illustrated volume presents rare decorative arts from Asia – all of exceptional quality – from ornate handled daggers and exq...

Staging Tianxia explores the ancient Chinese vision of world order known as tianxia (all under heaven) by focusing on the historical, performative,...

Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images,...