Oriental Art

The paintings of contemporary Thai artist Pichai Nirand (b. 1936) are a vivid exploration of the interplay between Thailand’s Buddhist roots and it...

Though the Drigung Kagyu was one of the most prominent and powerful schools of Tibetan Buddhism during its early period (12th - 14th century), its ...

The book provides a comparison of contemporary art by analyzing female aesthetic subjectivity within a global context. The starting point is a comp...

Ethereal sculptures and installations meditating on our sensory experiences Japanese artist Kohei Nawa (born 1975) explores scientific and digital...

War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of criti...

With a career spanning more than 70 years, Liu Kuo-sung is a pioneering figure in modern Chinese ink. He has forged new ways of thinking about the ...

This innovative book narrates the history of a single object—a tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth c...

Sazigyo are fine, tablet-woven Burmese tapes used to bind the palm-leaf manuscripts of an earlier era. Tiny images and extended texts were deftly w...

From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China....

Why do so many contemporary Chinese artists use porcelain in their work? In New Export China, Alex Burchmore presents a deep dive into a unique gen...

How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia.   This book opens in eleven...

A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art marketIn The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cult...

An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized partsChinese workers in the t...