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  • 100 Japanese Stencil Designs

    Edited by Friedrich Deneken ...
    Series series Dover Pictorial Archive
    The natural Japanese affinity for decorative art is apparent in this striking collection of exquisite stencil designs. A centuries-old tradition of capturing nature in striking floral and wildlife motifs is reflected in the graceful shapes and lovely lines of more than 100 illustrations. Lush blossoms, bamboo branches, butterflies, birds on the wing, and rustic country homes, among other subjects ... Read more

    $12.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Great Samurai Prints

    Series series Dover Fine Art, History of Art
    One of the last great names in the Japanese ukiyo-e style, Utagawa Kuniyoshi was an undisputed master of the warrior woodblock print. Born in Tokyo in 1797, his talent became evident by the tender age of 12, when he became an apprentice to a famous print master. Starting out with vivid illustrations of cultural icons—including Kabuki actors and Japanese heroes—he moved on to a unique treatment of ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1500 Chinese Design Motifs

    by Pan Wuhua ...
    Series series Dover Pictorial Archive
    These crisp, black-and-white images will lend a distinctive Far Eastern accent to any project. Hundreds of eye-catching images include geometrics, abstracts, optical illusions, plus other intriguing configurations that adapt easily for use as spot illustrations or as repeating patterns. Professional and amateur artists, illustrators, and designers will find this inexpensive treasury a priceless ... Read more

    $12.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 5000 Designs and Motifs from India

    Edited by Ajit Mookerjee ...
    Series series Dover Pictorial Archive
    Incredibly rich treasury of authentic royalty-free designs adapted from artifacts of the Harappa culture, coins and pottery from South India, Ajanta and Bagh murals, Muslim monuments, Buddhist temples, textiles from Gujarat, Punjab, other regions, masks and tribal arts, much more. Immediately usable material or great resource for design inspiration. Introduction. Notes. ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Fragile Inheritance

    Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art

    by Saloni Mathur ...
    In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the work of two seminal figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur and contemporary multimedia artist Vivan Sundaram. Examining their written and visual works over the past fifty years, Mathur illuminates how her protagonists’ political and aesthetic commitments intersect and foreground uncertainty, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Gaijin's Guide to Japan: An alternative look at Japanese life, history and culture

    by Ben Stevens ...
    An alternative look at Japanese life, history and cultureYour Rough Guide or Lonely Planet book can tell who where to stay or what to see, but how do you really get under the skin of Japan? In this book Ben Stevens explores the serious and the frivolous, the history and the obsessions of a fascinating nation.Taking an A-Z walk through Japanese culture, A Gaijin's Guide To Japan looks at everything ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • A Grammar of Japanese Ornament and Design

    Series series Dover Pictorial Archive
    The lovely images in this rare collection comprise one of the most comprehensive surveys of mid-19th-century Japanese art and ornamentation. Included are graceful details from landscapes, floral motifs, abstracts, illustratons of sea life, and other subjects-ideal for use in a host of art and craft projects. Over 300 figures on 65 plates. ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century I

    by Fu Jin ...
    The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China. Booming urban theatres, the interaction between commercial practice and theatre, dramas staged during the War of Resistance against Japan and a healthy dialogue between Western and Eastern theatres all contributed to the momentousness of this period. The four volumes of "A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century" ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century III

    by Fu Jin ...
    Series series China Perspectives
    The twentieth century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China. Booming urban theatres, the interaction between commercial practice and theatre, dramas staged during the War of Resistance against Japan and a healthy dialogue between Western and Eastern theatres all contributed to the momentousness of this period. The four volumes of A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century IV

    by Fu Jin ...
    Series series China Perspectives
    The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China. The four volumes of A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century display the developmental trajectories of Chinese theatre over those hundred years.This volume examines the development of Chinese theatrical art from the Cultural Revolution to the end of the 20th century. The Cultural Revolution had a devastating influence ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • A History of Pain

    Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film

    by Michael Berry ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels such as Ye Zhaoyan's Nanjing 1937: A Love Story and Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age collectively ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • A New Middle Kingdom

    Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700–1850)

    by J. P. Park ...
    Historians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after devastating invasions by the Japanese and Manchus around the turn of the seventeenth century, the late Chosŏn dynasty was a period of unprecedented economic and cultural renaissance, in which prosperity manifested itself in new programs and styles of visual art. A New Middle Kingdom questions this belief, claiming instead ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan

    In the Shadow of the Buddhas

    Series series Routledge Studies in Culture and Development
    A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan investigates the politics of cultural heritage preservation in Afghanistan between 2008 and 2015.Based on several periods of ethnographic fieldwork and the author’s direct employment on several internationally-sponsored heritage projects, this book studies the new and complex intersections between cultural heritage and politics in ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • A Promise Kept

    Memoir of Tibetans in India

    A Promise Kept: Memoir of Tibetans in India is a collaborative work between Germaine Krull and her friend Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz. Although a great photographer, Germaine was European and wrote English poorly. For this reason, she entrusted her memoir manuscript to Marilyn. Germaine requested that Marilyn promise to edit and rewrite it for publication so others could share her experiences. As ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Story of Ruins

    Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

    by Wu Hung ...
    Series series non-series
    This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan

    Buddhists around the world celebrate the benefits of worshipping Kannon (Avalokiteśvara), a compassionate savior who is one of the most beloved in the Buddhist pantheon. When Kannon appears in multiple manifestations, the deity’s powers are believed to increase to even greater heights. This concept generated several cults throughout history: among the most significant is the cult of the Six Kannon ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Across Asia and the Islamic World

    Movement and Mobility in the Arts of East Asian, South and Southeast Asian, and Islamic Cultures

    A new collection volume highlighting the strengths, variety and sheer wonder of The Walters Art Museum’s unique Asian and Islamic collectionsThe Walters Art Museum is among America’s most distinctive museums, forging connections between people and art from cultures around the world and spanning seven millennia. The museum features a stunning array of objects, from richly illuminated Qur’ans and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African American Studies

    The Discipline and Its Dimensions

    Series Book 110 - Black Studies and Critical Thinking
    African American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions is a comprehensive resource book that recounts the development of the discipline of African American Studies and provides a basic reference source for sixteen areas of knowledge of the discipline: anthropology, art, dance, economics, education, film, history, literature, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, political ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Ajanta Dipinta - Painted Ajanta Vol. 1 e 2

    Studio sulla tecnica e sulla conservazione del sito rupestre indiano - Studies on the techniques and the conservation of the indian rock art site

    by AA. VV. ...
    Il sito archeologico di Ajanta, nello stato indiano del Maharashtra, è composto da cinque templi e ventiquattro monasteri buddhisti, scavati nella parete rocciosa della valle del fiume Waghora a partire dal .C. Dopo essere stati per secoli un centro di vitale spiritualità, i santuari vennero poi abbandonati intorno al 650 d.C. e gradualmente dimenticati fino a quando, nel 1819, furono riscoperti ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Alluring Monsters

    The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization

    Series series Film and Culture Series
    The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has died in childbirth, and her vengeful return upsets gender norms and social hierarchies. The pontianak first appeared on screen in late colonial Singapore in a series of popular films that combine ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Along the Indian Highway

    An Ethnography of an International Travelling Exhibition

    Series series Visual and Media Histories
    This book is an ethnographic study of the travelling art exhibition Indian Highway that presented Indian contemporary art in Europe and China between 2008 and 2012, a significant period for the art world that saw the rise and fall of the national exhibition format. It analyses art exhibition as a mobile "object" and promotes the idea of art as a transcultural product by using participant ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Ambient Media

    Japanese Atmospheres of Self

    by Paul Roquet ...
    Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan, and what it means to use media as a resource for personal mood regulation. Paul Roquet traces the emergence of ambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie boom of the 1960s and 1970s to the more recent therapeutic emphasis on healing and relaxation.Focusing on how an ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies

    Compiled by two skilled librarians and a Taiwanese film and culture specialist, this volume is the first multilingual and most comprehensive bibliography of Taiwanese film scholarship, designed to satisfy the broad interests of the modern researcher. The second book in a remarkable three-volume research project, An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies catalogues the published and ... Read more

    $130.99 USD

  • Angkor, dix siècles d'art khmer (Paris - 1997)

    Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis

    C'est à l'acharnement du lieutenant de vaisseau Louis Delaporte que l'on doit la création avant 1875 du premier musée d'art khmer, installé à Compiègne faute d'avoir pu trouver place à Paris. Delaporte avait obtenu, en 1871, une mission pour collecter des statues et recueillir des moulages...À PROPOS DE L’ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALISReconnue mondialement pour la qualité et la fiabilité incomparable ... Read more

    $4.49 USD