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  • Kama Sutra 120 ilustraciones

    by E. Lamairesse ...
    El volumen de Mega Square Kama Sutra es un manual educativo universal que rinde homenaje a la magia del amor. Esta edición cuenta con unas ilustraciones exquisitas que incluyen frescos primorosos y delicados grabados. El formato práctico y compacto de Mega Square hace de este libro un regalo perfecto. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japanese Woodblock Kimono Designs in Full Color

    by Dover ...
    Series series Dover Pictorial Archive
    The delicate beauty of the kimono and its appealing designs embody Japan's ancient and venerable tradition of textile arts. This unusual design treasury recaptures the graceful art of the kimono in all its subtle elegance, with authentic designs from a nineteenth-century source.Reproduced directly from a rare and costly original portfolio, these luminous designs include allover patterns, nature ... Read more

    $13.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hokusai: 97 Drawings

    Hokusai began drawing at the age of six, and by 18 he had been accepted into the Katsukawa Shunsho School. He had a long career, but he produced most of his important work after age 60. The largest of Hokusai's works is the 15-volume collection Hokusai Manga, a book crammed with nearly 4,000 sketches. The aged artist lost everything in a fire at his lodgings in 1839 and devoted the last ten years ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art

    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    This companion examines the global Renaissance through object-based case studies of artistic production from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in the early modern period.The international group of contributors take an art historical approach characterized by close analysis of form and meaning as well as function, and a focus on questions of crosscultural dialogue and adaptation. Seeking to de ... Read more

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  • Искусство войны в иллюстрациях

    Классический трактат Сунь-цзы в диаграммах и графиках

    «Искусство войны» — военный трактат китайского полководца и мыслителя Сунь-цзы. Издавна это произведение почиталось в Китае как главный военный канон, оно существенно повлияло на все военное искусство Востока, а сегодня входит в программы обучения военных академий многих стран. Джессика Хэги смахнула пыль двадцати пяти веков с классического текста и перевела его на язык инфографики. «Искусство ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Yosa Buson: Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)

    by Raya Yotova ...
    Yosa Buson was a Japanese poet of haikai and an Edo period artist. Together with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, he is considered one of the greatest poets and artists of the Edo period in Japanese history.Buson was native from the village of Kema in the province of Settsu. His first name was Taniguchi.At around his 20 years old, Buson moved to Edo (now Tokyo) and studied poetry under the ... Read more

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  • Hokusai

    Without a doubt, Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese artist since the middle of the nineteenth century whose art is known to the Western world. Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai - one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe - greatly influenced the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters, such as Vincent van Gogh. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Erotic Fantasy

    Numerous and diverse points of view come together in this work, demonstrating the multiple aspects that sexuality can present. If nothing is more natural than sexual desire, it is nothing less than the forms by which this desire is expressed and found to satisfy. This book invites you on a special journey, into the universe of emotion, of pleasure and desire. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forbidden Asia 120 illustrations

    Since The Turkish Baths (1863) by the French painter Ingres, the Far Eastern woman has, to many, been a symbol of out of reach or forbidden pleasures. Seafaring explorers, military adventurers and simple travellers from Europe over the centuries have all been enthralled by the exotic nature of the Asian woman, her foreignness accentuated by the gentle pallor of her skin. Thus arose the myth that ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sex and the Floating World

    Erotic Images in Japan 1700-1820 - Second Edition

    by Timon Screech ...
    Series series RB-Essays in Art and Culture
    During the Edo period in eighteenth-century Japan, erotic paintings and prints known today as shunga were popular among both men and women. Yet, prior to Tim Screech’s definitive study, Sex and the Floating World, no one had attempted to situate these overtly sexual images within the contexts of the sexual, gender, or class tensions of the time.Newly revised and expanded, this second edition of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Treasury of Chinese Design Motifs

    Series series Dover Pictorial Archive
    284 Chinese motifs — flowers and plants, animal life, and more. 100 plates. ... Read more

    $12.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Money, Trains, and Guillotines

    Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan

    Series series Asia-Pacific
    During the 1960s a group of young artists in Japan challenged official forms of politics and daily life through interventionist art practices. William Marotti situates this phenomenon in the historical and political contexts of Japan after the Second World War and the international activism of the 1960s. The Japanese government renewed its Cold War partnership with the United States in 1960, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Chinese Calligraphy

    An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique, Third Revised and Enlarged Edition

    by Yee Chiang ...
    Chiang Yee’s Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique remains the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In eleven richly illustrated chapters, Chiang explores the aesthetics and the technique of this art in which rhythm, line, and structure are perfectly embodied. He measures the slow change from pictograph to stroke to the style and shape of written characters by ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Impressions of Ukiyo-E

    Ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) is a branch of Japanese art which originated during the period of prosperity in Edo (1615-1868). Characteristic of this period, the prints are the collective work of an artist, an engraver, and a printer. Created on account of their low cost thanks to the progression of the technique, they represent daily life, women, actors of kabuki theatre, or even ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Views of Mt. Fuji

    Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was among the foremost ukiyo-e artists of his generation, and his Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji ranks among the best-known series of Japanese woodblock prints. This edition presents a full-color reprint of Hokusai's enduring masterpiece, plus his black-and-white series, One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji.Hokusai created thousands of woodcut prints based on the traditions, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ideals of the East

    "The Ideals of the East" is an essential work on Japanese art and esthetics written by Okakura Kakuzo, a co founder of the Tokyo Fine Art School and one of the great 19th-century experts on Asian art and archaeology.The book approaches the subject from a philosophical perspective, exploring the spirit and the spirituality behind the notable eras of Asian music, painting, architecture, textiles, ... Read more

    $0.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Porcelain

    by O. du Sartel ...
    The art of porcelain manufacturing is linked closely to China and its history, appearing in the 7th century when it became an important symbol of royalty or high status. The masterpieces of the genre featured in this book range from simple tea bowls and fantastic vases to hair ornaments, figurines and snuff boxes with intricate, multi-coloured designs. The presentations of these fragile objects ... Read more

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  • Balinese Textiles

    In this beautifully illustrated book, three experts examine the history, production and uses of textiles in Balinese society. Many fine pieces are presented, their raw materials and methods of weaving and dyeing are described, and the complex symbolism and ritual functions of each are explained in detail. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Visualizing Modern China

    Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present

    Series series AsiaWorld
    Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present offers a sophisticated yet accessible interpretation of modern Chinese history through visual imagery. With rich illustrations and a companion website, it is an ideal textbook for college-level courses on modern Chinese history and on modern visual culture. The introduction provides a methodological framework and historical ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Japanese Mythology in Film

    A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime

    A cyborg detective hunts for a malfunctioning sex doll that turns itself into a killing machine. A Heian-era Taoist slays evil spirits with magic spells from yin-yang philosophy. A young mortician carefully prepares bodies for their journey to the afterlife. A teenage girl drinks a cup of life-giving sake, not knowing its irreversible transformative power. These are scenes from the visually ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Chinoiserie

    Series Book 886 - Shire Library
    Chinoiserie, a decorative style inspired by the art of the Far East, gripped Britain from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Despite taking its name from the French word for 'Chinese', the style also incorporated influences from other Asian countries, helping to shape the period's popular fantasy of the 'exotic Orient'. Wealthy consumers jostled to obtain imported wallpaper, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Buddha to Krishna

    Life and Times of George Keyt

    This book traces the emergence of modernism in art in South Asia by exploring the work of the iconic artist George Keyt. Closely interwoven with his life, Keyt’s art reflects the struggle and triumph of an artist with very little support or infrastructure. He painted as he lived: full of colour, turmoil and intensity. In this compelling account, the author examines the eventful course of Keyt’s ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • حیجان

    کتاب حیجاناثر نیما شهسواریکتاب حیجان مجموعهای از داستانهای کوتاه و شعر نوشتهی نیما شهسواری استاین مجموعه دارای هجده شعر و داستان کوتاه استمضامین این اشعار و داستانهای کوتاه پیرامون باور به جان آزادی برابری، نقد قدرت ادیان خدا و ... استعناوین این مجموعه به شرح زیر استفردیدتنیدهآرزودریدنبلور... ... Read more

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  • Soul Of Ink: Lim Tze Peng At 100

    by Tai Ho Woon ...
    Soul of Ink: Lim Tze Peng at 100 pays tribute to the remarkable achievement of artistic renaissance at 100. It traces the lean beginnings of Lim Tze Peng's early years, relives the times of controversy over the artist's innovations in Chinese calligraphy, and celebrates his breakthroughs. Throughout the book, attention is paid to Lim Tze Peng the man, the foundation of everything that is admirable ... Read more

    $20.99 USD