Art Styles Not Defined by Date

A glimpse into the markets, crafts, and signage of early modern Japan Kanban are the traditional signs Japanese merchants displayed on the street ...

Chinese brush painting is an ancient art, steeped in history, symbolism and ritual, and closely linked to Chinese calligraphy. This beautifully il...

This compelling account of collaboration in the genre of ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) offers a new approach to understanding the produc...

Sir Victor Sassoon (1881-1961) lived an extraordinary and colourful life and left a remarkable legacy. He created a trust to preserve his collectio...

This guide to identifying lions, unicorns and other creatures real and fanciful in Chinese and Japanese artwork explains how these and other ani...

Modern Arab Art provides a historical and theoretical overview of the subject from the 1940s through today. With particular emphasis on production,...

Born into a poor farming family and coming of age during Chinas century of civil strife, Qi Baishi transformed the elite brush art of Chinas litera...

Yoshiaki Shimizu, one of the foremost scholars of Japanese art history, taught at Princeton University for more than twenty-five years, during whic...

This lavishly illustrated volume is the first study in a Western language to examine Buddhist sculptures known as danzo (sandalwood images) and dan...

Puja and Piety celebrates the complexity of South Asian representation and iconography by examining the relationship between aesthetic expression a...

Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings ...

craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of a Japanese f...