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Illustrations of Myanmar
Manuscript Treasures of the Musée Guimet
This volume commemorates a new exhibition of Burmese artifacts at the Musée Guimet in Paris and showcases the vibrant art and manuscript traditions of Myanmar. The central pieces displayed in the...
ISBN: 9786162151484
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Climate Change and the Art of Devotion
Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850
In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion,...
ISBN: 9780295745374
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Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains
Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas
From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern...
ISBN: 9780295744513
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Bronze and Stone
The Cult of Antiquity in Song Dynasty China
Despite China’s long tradition of venerating the past as the ultimate source of cultural authority, the discourse of antiquity prior to the Song period (960–1279) demonstrated little concern...
ISBN: 9780295744575
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Creating the Universe
Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism
Winner, 2018 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian HumanitiesBuddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that...
ISBN: 9780295744063
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Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets
The Culture of Objects in Late Chosŏn Korean Art
The social and economic rise of the chungin class (“middle people” who ranked between the yangban aristocracy and commoners) during the late Chosŏn period (1700–1910) ushered in a world...
ISBN: 9780295743417
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A New Middle Kingdom
Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700–1850)
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...
ISBN: 9780295743257
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Indonesian Splendour / Indische pracht
Four Centuries of Fascination for the Flora of Indonesia / Vier eeuwen fascinatie voor de flora van Indonesie
Bilingual English / DutchIndonesia’s flora—with more than 45,000 plant varieties—is one of the most abundant in the world. Photographer Dennis A-Tjak has been making a name for himself...
ISBN: 9789460224935
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The Art of Resistance
Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China
The Art of Resistance surveys the lives of seven painters—Ding Cong (1916–2009), Feng Zikai (1898–1975), Li Keran (1907–89), Li Kuchan (1898–1983), Huang Yongyu (b. 1924), Pan Tianshou...
ISBN: 9780295741956
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Heaven & Earth in Chinese Art
Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei
This publication presents some of the highest artistic achievements in Chinese history. Drawing on the exceptional collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Heaven and Earth in Chinese...
ISBN: 9781741741438
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Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy
Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yi he ming) is perhaps the most eccentric piece in China’s calligraphic canon. Apparently marking the burial of a crane, the large inscription, datable to 514...
ISBN: 9780295746364
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Faith and Empire
Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism
Faith and Empire explores the dynamic intersection of politics, religion, and art in Tibetan Buddhism. At the heart of this dynamic is the force of religion to claim political power. Covering...
ISBN: 9780692194607
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Ambitious Alignments
New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945–1990
This new volume explores the art and architecture of Southeast Asia in the postwar period. Ten essays by emerging scholars draw upon unexplored archives and works of art, bearing witness to rich...
ISBN: 9780909952921
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The Social Life of Inkstones
Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China
An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object of art, a token of exchange between friends or sovereign states, and a surface...
ISBN: 9780295999180
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Conflicts of Interest
Art and War in Modern Japan
This fascinating publication showcases the Saint Louis Art Museum’s collection of Japanese military prints and related materials—one of the largest collections of such works in the world. The...
ISBN: 9780295999814
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Masterworks from India and Southeast Asia
Spanning two millennia and the breadth of southern Asia, the thirty-seven masterworks presented here introduce the reader to the great artistic achievements of India and Southeast Asia. The Nelson-Atkins...
ISBN: 9780997249293
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Bhupen Khakhar
You Can't Please All
Bhupen Khakhar (1934–2003) was active in India from the late 1960s. A gentle radical, his luminous paintings addressed issues of class, gender, and sexuality with sensitive, often tragicomic nuance....
ISBN: 9780295998121
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Image Problems
The Origin and Development of the Buddha's Image in Early South Asia
This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old...
ISBN: 9780295994567
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Imperial Illusions
Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces
In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best...
ISBN: 9780295994109
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Great Qing
Painting in China, 1644-1911
This comprehensive overview of painting in China’s last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911), fills a need in the field of East Asian art history and will be welcomed by students and collectors. Claudia...
ISBN: 9780295993959
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