Art Styles Not Defined by Date

The book brings a new approach to see the art history of Hong Kong as a historical mediator and offers  alternative perspective to discern the curr...

In The Book of Wounded Sparrows, his second full-length collection of poetry, Octavio Quintanilla sifts through the wreckage left in the pursuit of...

Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images,...

At the heart of this book are twenty-eight real-life animals and the myths and literature, paintings, drawings, textiles and ceramics they have ins...

History is not one story, but many. In Rethinking Japans Modernity, M. William Steele takes a new look at the people, places, and events associated...

Featuring breathtaking photographs of masks created by a renowned twenty-first-century craftsman, this book provides a unique perspective into noh ...

The rock art of Australia is among the oldest, most complex, and most fascinating manifestations of human creativity and imagination in the world. ...

This beautifully illustrated survey examines the art and artists of the Edo period, one of the great epochs in Japanese art. Together with the impe...

With essays on sojourning artists like Situ Qiao and local artists such as Tchang Ju Chi, Singaporean scholar and educator Yeo Mang Thong demonstra...

Who was responsible for the crimes of the Nazis? Party leaders and members? Rank-and-file soldiers and bureaucrats? Ordinary Germans? This question...

The Aura of Confucius is a ground-breaking study that reconstructs the remarkable history of Kongzhai, a shrine founded on the belief that Confuciu...

Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. A co-founder o...

Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. A co-founder o...

In Earth Diplomacy, Jessica L. Horton reveals how Native American art in the mid-twentieth century mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to pl...

A sumptuous, beautiful collection of cyborgs, sushi, and monsters--this book is a feast for the eyes and a phosphorescent display of creativity. Ot...

In the Spirit of the Ancestors celebrates the vitality of contemporary Pacific Northwest Coast art by showcasing a selection of objects from the Bu...

Knowledge Within: Treasures of the Northwest Coast looks into seventeen of the numerous sites in the Pacific Northwest region with major collection...

Glory and Exile: Haida History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson marks the first time this monumental cycle of ceremonial robes by the Haida artist...

Fifty years ago, Canada celebrated its hundredth anniversary of Confederation. At Expo 67, in communities across the country, we celebrated our com...

Re-envisioning Japan is the first truly comprehensive book on Japanese export textiles of the Meiji period (1868 1912), featuring stunning examples...

Focusing on early nineteenth-century England?and on the works and texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot?Singular Ima...

Is there such a thing as contemporary art history? The contemporary, after allas much as we may want to consider it otherwiseis being made history ...

Some might say that making art is an impulse all humans have, yet artist-as-occupation is tremendously difficult - only a few are able to find thei...

Some might say that making art is an impulse all humans have, yet artist-as-occupation is tremendously difficult - only a few are able to find thei...

This pack contains 200 high-quality origami sheets printed with beautiful and inspiring Japanese woodblock prints.These colorful origami papers wer...

Aesthetics of Repair analyses how the belongings called art are mobilized by Indigenous artists and cultural activists in British Columbia, Canada....

Aesthetics of Repair analyses how the belongings called art are mobilized by Indigenous artists and cultural activists in British Columbia, Canada....

Tang Taizong (Li Shimin), 2nd emperor of the Tang dynasty, commissioned six statues of his favourite warhorses to be carved in stone and serve as p...

Each month of this twelve-month calendar features a different traditional Lakota virtue along with wisdom text, exquisite artwork, and the Lakota n...

Collecting 100 full-color pages, Black Tights features some of the best artists in Japan. With stockings as their primary themes, the artists often...

The iconic masks of the Italian commedia dellarteHarlequin, Pierrot, Colombina, Pulcinella, and othershave been vagabonding the roads of Russian cu...

Articulating the shifting interests in Korean art and offering new ways of conceiving the biases that initiated and impacted its collecting, this b...

A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass media This fascinat...

In the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connec...

What does it mean to say that some of the best Chinese contemporary art is made in America, by Americans? Through words and images, this book chall...

This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered at Beijings Inside Out Art Museu...