Art Styles Not Defined by Date

Zina Saro-Wiwa: Did You Know We Taught Them How to Dance? is the first publication on the work of Zina Saro-Wiwa, a British-Nigerian video artist a...

Wen C. Fong established America's first program in East Asian art history at Princeton University, where he taught Chinese art from 1954 to 1999. D...

Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early mo...

Superb Yokai images from the world's leading museums and private collections!Japan's vast pantheon of supernatural creatures includes demons (yokai...

For centuries indigenous communities of North America have used carriers to keep their babies safe. Among the Indians of the Great Plains, rigid cr...

In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the B...

Pearls on a String presents the arts of historical Islamic cultures by focusing on specific people and relationships among cultural tastemakers, es...

This volume investigates the artistic development during the Qing Dynasty, the last of imperial Chinese dynasties, and shows the importance of oper...

This work is the first thorough analysis of the creative oeuvre of the Quay Brothers. Known for their animation shorts that rely on puppetry, minia...

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

Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the ...

This samurai strategy books is the first widely available English translation of Yamamoto Kansuke's classic treatise on strategy and tactics.Secret...

The must-have classic work on early Japanese photography!Writer Bennett crafted this beautiful and educational book from a collection of 350 old an...

This book establishes a fresh and expansive view of the grotesque in Western art and culture, from 1500 to the present day. Following the non-linea...

In this book, Xiaolong Wu offers a comprehensive and in-depth study of the Zhongshan state during China's Warring States Period (476221 BCE). Analy...

Exploring a wealth of images ranging from woodblock prints to oil paintings, this beautifully illustrated full-color study takes up key elements of...

Jane Alexander is one of the most significant South African artists working today. The artist's hybrid mutants speak to the porous borders between ...

Exploring a wealth of images ranging from woodblock prints to oil paintings, this beautifully illustrated full-color study takes up key elements of...

A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China...

With 12 exquisite prints by Japanese artist Mizuno Toshikata, this calendar showcases the detail found in Japanese art from the Ashmolean Museums i...

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has one of the most comprehensive and important collections of Chinese art outside East Asia, with pieces ...

Foregrounds the importance of landscape within twenty-first-century Indigenous artA distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerg...

A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art marketIn The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cult...

An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized partsChinese workers in the t...

An exploration of the evolution of the Japanese Mingei (folk art) movement within the context of todays concerns  Originating in Japan in the 1920s...

Beautifully illustrated with richly detailed photographs, this volume traces the living heritage of locally made pottery in the English-speaking Ca...

Collaborative conversations on Indigenous performance art, convened by a leading practitioner For Breaking Protocol, transdisciplinary artist Mari...

Arts of Korea reveals patterns of collection-building and display strategies across time and place, discusses the role of the private collector in ...

Early Art of the Southeastern Indians is a visual journey through time, highlighting some of the most skillfully created art in native North Americ...

'Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it m...

Honorable Mention for the 2024 James B. Palais Prize for English-Language Scholarly books published on Korea from the Association for Asian Studies...

With a combination of inventive wrapping designs, inspiring personal essays, and step-by-step techniques, Megumi Inouye invites readers to transfor...

How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic percept...

Huang Xiangjian, a mid-seventeenth-century member of the Suzhou local elite, journeyed on foot to southwest China and recorded its sublime scenery ...

Pages from some of the most celebrated and exquisite medieval manuscripts in the British Library provide the inspiration for twenty-one practical a...