Oriental Art

Teaches crafters how to make and use a gorgeous material for extra enjoyment in knitting, crocheting, and weaving: paper yarn. Explore Japanes...

An exploration of southern Chinas ceramic industry and its links to Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, and beyond via the maritime trade   Beautifully i...

Discover the blacksmithing techniques used to make 10 traditional Japanese objects with insights from the artisans and rare glimpses inside their w...

Art in Hong Kong is a fascinating analysis of the history, current status and possible future of Hong Kong as an international art hub, written by ...

Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case i...

What is design in modern China? And what are the ecological stakes in understanding how modern Chinese design encourages us to see? This book takes...

The Kisokaid route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the countrys then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be inst...

The first publication to celebrate the British Museums rich collection of these technically sophisticated artworks created as part of Japanese cult...

Along the River During the Qingming Festival is a renowned Chinese painting that captures the daily life of the Northern Song Dynasty. This artwork...

The book portrays the journey of artist Xie Shan, who dedicated his life to painting despite suffering from cornea thinning (keratoconus), auditory...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

Despite the censorship of dissident material during the decade between the Manchurian Incident of 1931 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941,...

First published in 1935, this book was intended to provide westerners with a more definite and comprehensive understanding of Chinese Art and its a...

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

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

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...

This book celebrates the thriving world of Islamic arts and crafts, as well as presenting the rich cultural, philosophical and historical heritage ...

The ultimate publication on Hokuei, the master of Osaka ukiyo-e printmakers and one of the most intriguing artists ever in kabuki-actor prints.Hoku...