Oriental Art

This revelatory book shows how the influential and controversial Empress Dowager Cixi used art and architecture to establish her authority   Empres...

Oriental Lifestyle will take you on a journey that explores astonishing artistic and architectural worlds, captured by a poetic eye. Like an enchan...

Illuminates the rich history of Asian Art from ancient times to the present Asian Art provides students with an accessible introduction to the hist...

One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with deviant male homosexuality by scor...

In an age when so much of our time is spent staring at screens, it is easy to understand why the warmth, intimacy and idiosyncrasies of hand crafts...

The Encyclopedia of East Asian Design is the first comprehensive publication to focus on East Asian design and its histories. Although definition...

This illuminating exhibition catalogue interrogates the entanglement of the Islamic world with European visual culture during the medieval period a...

This latest philosophical text by John Sallis is inspired by the work of contemporary Chinese painter Cao Jun. It carries out a series of philosoph...

No contemporary artist has succeeded so thoroughly in blending classical Chinese art and modern abstract art as Cao Jun, who has exhibited widely i...

In 1573, 712 bales of Chinese silk arrived in New Spain in the cargos of two Manila galleons. The emergence and the subsequent rapid development of...

This publication examines the Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japans period of seclusion, to its age of modernization...

This book examines the cultural heritage of Inner Eurasia (Central Asia) through the arts, from prehistoric times to the ancient and medieval golde...

With a ghostly torch passed down from Lafcadio Hearn, Davisson, accomplished author, translator, and folklorist delves into the depths of Japanese ...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies ...

The first illustrated, architectural history of the 'Alid shrines, increasingly endangered by the conflict in Syria The 'Alids (descendants of the...

Focusing on 5 objects found in the main media at the time - ceramics, metalware, painting, architecture and textiles - Sheila S. Blair shows how ar...

Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (17601849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a ...

From Edouard Manets portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Goghs meticulous copies of the Hiroshige p...

From Edouard Manets portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Goghs meticulous copies of the Hiroshige p...