Art Styles Not Defined by Date

Founded in 1933, the Seattle Art Museum is home to a premier collection of Chinese art. This book is the first to chronicle and analyze the growth ...

This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to...

Studies on global metageography are enjoying a revival, and in no way is this better referenced than against the geo-world system bequeathed by Cla...

This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to...

Named after an archaeological site discovered in 1951 in Zhengzhou, China, the Erligang civilization arose in the Yellow River valley around the mi...

In A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China, Mary Bittner Wiseman shows that material matters in the work of Chinese artists, where the goal i...

Chinese Religious Art is a broad survey of the origins and development of the various forms of artistic expression of Chinese religions. The study ...

Chinese Religious Art is a broad survey of the origins and development of the various forms of artistic expression of Chinese religions. The study ...

Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops: From Past to Present presents a comprehensive analysis of the carved rocks the Inka created in the A...

What is the significance of the visual representation of revolution? How is history articulated through public images? How can these images communi...

Named after an archaeological site discovered in 1951 in Zhengzhou, China, the Erligang civilization arose in the Yellow River valley around the mi...

When is a landscape more than a landscape? This is a richly illustrated study of an important genre of Ming-dynasty Chinese painting in which lands...

This unique collection takes a fresh look at Orientalism by shifting its center from Europe to Ottoman Istanbul and thinking about art in terms of ...

Dynasty and Divinity presents a major part of the extraordinary corpus of ancient Ife art in terra-cotta, stone, and metal, dating from the ninth t...

Folk art is now widely recognized as an integral part of the modern Chinese cultural heritage, but in the early twentieth century, awareness of fol...

Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting accompanies the first comprehensive exhibition of artwork by Xu Beihong hown outside Asia. It highli...

Often controversial and sometimes even shocking to audiences, the work of California-based artist Suzanne Lacy has challenged viewers and participa...

Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops: From Past to Present presents a comprehensive analysis of the carved rocks the Inka created in the A...

Colonized through Art explores how the federal government used art education for American Indian children as an instrument for the “colonization of...

The Bauhaus school in Germany has long been understood through the writings of its founding director, Walter Gropius, and well-known artists who ta...

The Oregon artist Nelson Sandgren (1917-2006) worked in three distinct media - oil painting, watercolor, and lithography - distinguishing himself i...

According to the contributors to this volume, the relationship of Buddhism and the arts in Japan is less the rendering of Buddhist philosophical id...

In The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius: Spirit Consonance in Chinese Landscape Painting and Some Kantian Echoes, Xiaoyan Hu provides an interpretati...

Knowing Native Arts brings Nancy Marie Mithlo’s Native insider perspective to understanding the significance of Indigenous arts in national and glo...

This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the ...

Winner of the ASAA mid-career book prize in Asian Studies 2020 and joint winner of the 2020 Royal Studies Journal Book PrizePhotographic subjects e...

During the course of the 19th century, a relatively modern medium entered the private space of Iranian houses of the wealthy and became a popular f...

The story Raven and the Box of Daylight, which tells how Raven transformed the world and brought light to the people by releasing the stars, moon, ...

The earliest phase of Thai history is an exciting but little understood period that bridged the gap between protohistory and the fully developed hi...

Winner, 2024 Geiss-Hsu Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Ming StudiesThe goddess Guanyin began in India as the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara...