Oriental Art

The first English-language monograph on the installation artist exploring transnationalism and wandering as a permanent position This is the first...

Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 15001900 brings women's engagements with art into a pan-Asian dialogue with essays that examine women as artists,...

This book examines the development of national emblems, photographic portraiture, oil painting, world expositions, modern spaces for art exhibition...

This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of Chinas socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and gl...

Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask...

Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art addresses how researchers can challenge stereotypical notions of Islam and Islamic art while avoiding the c...

The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange culturally, politically, and artistically across Eurasia. The wide-ranging...

At the age of six, Hokusai was said to have painted his first picture, and a year after his death aged 89, his designs for illustrated books were p...

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it was fashionable to collect 'curios', objects so named because they aroused 'curiosity'. Imaginatively ...

This sumptuous book explores the important role that woodblock prints played in the fashionable world of Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). 140 ukiyo-e ...

With a presentation that divides the book into two equal parts, A Tale of Two Balconies investigates the elements that make each of these artworks-...

Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) is an emblematic figure of Orientalism. The son of the cabinet-maker Louis Majorelle, he trained at the École nationa...

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

Highlighting many examples of previously unseen and unusual garments from one of the preeminent kimono collections, this dazzling volume explores t...