Oriental Art

An illustrated guide to one of the most enduring masterworks of world literatureWritten in the eleventh century by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki...

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

An authoritative and wide-ranging visual essay on the aesthetics of Japan, now in a beautiful paperback edition. Japan Style, written by one of ...

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

Chinese art''s journey from mass-produced propaganda in the Mao era to market darling mirrors China''s own momentous changes like few other discipl...

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...

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

Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories examines the artistic developments of Japanese erotic art from the ukiyo-e period, dating from the mid-sevente...