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The Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage: Essays in Honour of Nasser David Khalili
GINGKOCurrent price €142.67Original price €163.99Over the course of five decades, Professor Sir Nasser David Khalili has assembled eight of the worlds most important collections of art. Together t...
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Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes: Style and Classification in the History of Art
Robert BagleyCurrent price €60.02Original price €68.99Max Loehr (19031988), the most distinguished historian of Chinese art of his generation, is celebrated above all for a 1953 art historical study of...
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The Making of Asmat Art: Indigenous Art in a World Perspective
Nick StanleyCurrent price €73.07Original price €83.99Why has Asmat art, from a remote and small south-coast West Papuan society, had such a significant and prolonged impact on the world stage? This bo...
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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Moya CareyCurrent price €20.00Original price €22.99This beautifully illustrated book explores the rich heritage of Islamic art. Starting with the original Arab-style courtyard mosques, it traces the...
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Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast
University of Washington PressCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, fr...
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Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection: An Annotated Selection
William Eilliot GriffisCurrent price €37.91Original price €47.99William Elliot Griffis (1843 1928) graduated from Rutgers College in 1869 and taught four years in Fukui and Tokyo. After his return to the United...
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Hiroshige - Seasons QuickNotes
Utagawa HiroshigeCurrent price €14.39Original price €17.99Hiroshige's well-rendered, beautiful and traditional artwork is reproduced here for our museum quality notecard collection. Enjoy visions of the pa...
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The Art of Science: Artists and artworks inspired by science
Giora GoodmanCurrent price €34.79Original price €39.99Art and science they may seem like opposites, but throughout history there have been visionaries who have brought together these contrasting subje...
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The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture
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Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia
Jaleh MansoorCurrent price €26.09Original price €29.99Focusing on artwork by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates and reveals how abstract painting, especially th...
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Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
University of Toronto PressCurrent price €66.11Original price €75.99The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes ...
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Tsimshian Eagle: A Culture Bearer''s Journey
David A. BoxleyCurrent price €26.96Original price €30.99Raised by his grandparents in the tiny village of Metlakatla, Alaska, David A. Boxley left a secure teaching job in his hometown to pursue an uncha...
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From China to Meissen: 300 Years of Blue Onion Pattern
Anja HellCurrent price €31.76Original price €36.50Current price €31.76Original price €36.50Save 13% -
Collecting Objects / Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and American Visual Culture, 1830-1900
Lenore Metrick-ChenCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Current price €28.28Original price €32.50Save 13% -
Painting of the Realm: The Kano House of Painters in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Yukio LippitCurrent price €70.46Original price €80.99Winner of the John Whitney Hall Book Prize Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award In this eloquent and far-ranging work, Yukio Lippit explore...
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Pre-Texts International
Harvard University PressCurrent price €41.59Original price €51.99Pre-Texts is a methodology developed by Doris Sommer for education professionals to stimulate close reading and critical-thinking skills by making ...
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Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas
University of LondonCurrent price €29.57Original price €33.99Current price €29.57Original price €33.99Save 13% -
Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644-1911
Claudia BrownCurrent price €36.79Original price €45.99Addressing the previous lack of a comprehensive English-language study of Qing painting, art historian Claudia Brown's account ranges from the tumu...
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Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99Compelling and troubling, colorful and dark, black figures served as the quintessential image of difference in nineteenth-century European art; the...
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Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Lorenz BichlerCurrent price €21.20Original price €26.50Utagawa Hiroshige (17971858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning pictures of the floating world, ukiyo-e ...
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Hiroshige & Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido. 40th Ed.
Rhiannon PagetCurrent price €26.00Original price €32.50The Kisokaid route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the countrys then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be inst...
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Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy
Lei XueCurrent price €62.63Original price €71.99Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yi he ming) is perhaps the most eccentric piece in China's calligraphic canon. Apparently marking the burial of a crane...
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Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska''s New Deal Totem Parks
Emily L. MooreCurrent price €40.01Original price €45.99Among Southeast Alaska's best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists....
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Hokusai. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Andreas MarksCurrent price €120.92Original price €138.99Mount Fuji has long been a centerpiece of Japanese cultural imagination, and nothing captures this with more virtuosity than the landmark woodblock...
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The Saburo Hasegawa Reader
University of California PressCurrent price €31.99Original price €39.99At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing ...
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Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam
Margaret S. GravesCurrent price €80.90Original price €92.99The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and othe...
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Choctaw-Apache Voices
Stephen F. Austin State University PressCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99This multidisciplinary volume follows on the success of Choctaw-Apache Foodways and includes several selections, including history, anthropology, f...
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Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art
Sasha Su-Ling WellandCurrent price €96.56Original price €110.99During the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the censorious attitude that characterized China's post-1989 official response to contemporary art...
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Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings
Matt LodderCurrent price €14.18Original price €17.50In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing an art without a history. No-one, it went on, has made it the business of his life to stu...
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Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos
Matt LodderCurrent price €21.47Original price €26.50In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing an art without a history. No-one, it went on, has made it the business of his life to stu...
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Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos
Matt LodderCurrent price €16.19Original price €19.99In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing an art without a history. No-one, it went on, has made it the business of his life to stu...
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Cosmologies and Biologies: Illuminated Siamese Manuscripts of Death, Time and the Body
Justin McDanielCurrent price €44.36Original price €50.99This is a fascinating study of rare Siamese illuminated manuscripts of two kinds, biological and cosmological. Beautiful in themselves, they are pr...
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Dissident Authorship in Mozambique: The Case of António Quadros (1933-1994)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Tom StennettCurrent price €67.14Original price €78.99Dissident Authorship in Mozambique: the Case of António Quadros is the first monograph on the literary works of the pennames of Portuguese poet and...
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