Art Styles Not Defined by Date

The ultimate publication on Hokuei, the master of Osaka ukiyo-e printmakers and one of the most intriguing artists ever in kabuki-actor prints.Hoku...

Follows the path of an everyday object, from quarry to deskAn inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instru...

Korean painters participated in two major cultural trends of the late Choson period in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: inquiry into things...

Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly...

Historians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after devastating invasions by the Japanese and Manchus around the turn of the...

Over one thousand years old, the Buddhist monastery complex of Tabo with its exquisitely preserved works of art ranks among the most fascinating cu...

This book aims to provide readers with a clear and comprehensive picture of the development of Chinese art. Its main feature is the combination of ...

This book showcases the work of contemporary ink artist Christina Tung Wai. Feathers and Taoist philosophy have been recurring subjects in her pain...

What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But ar...

This book presents the concept of Fenggu, one of the most important aesthetic categories of ancient China. As an inspiring aesthetic principle, it ...

Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See ...

Winner, 2018 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian HumanitiesBuddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of hi...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Chinese embroidery, including its history, styles in different regions, patterns, techniques, an...

From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Gang...

This is an in-depth study of the intellectual, technical, and artistic encounters between Europe and China in the late eighteenth century, focusing...

Focusing on artwork by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates and reveals how abstract painting, especially th...

Where would you like to travel? The aquarium, the amusement park, the great outdoors, the hot springs Make a plan and pack your little bag!The cute...

National Jewish Book Awards 2019 Finalist for Visual Arts. Richly illustrated and meticulously documented, this is the first comprehensive survey...