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Shifting Grounds
Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art
Foregrounds the importance of landscape within twenty-first-century Indigenous art
A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging among contemporary Indigenous artists from North America. For centuries, landscape painting in European art typically used representational strategies...
ISBN: 9780295749167
more detailsProud Raven, Panting Wolf
Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks
Among Southeast Alaska’s best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning...
ISBN: 9780295747552
more detailsA Fashionable Century
Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing
Honorable Mention for the 2023 Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies
An innovative look at late-Qing cultural and fashion history
Clothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much about women’s participation...
ISBN: 9780295747187
more detailsWhat the Emperor Built
Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming
Winner of the 2023 Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies
How imperial ideology is given shape in built space
One of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, the Yongle emperor...
ISBN: 9780295746883
more detailsYumeji Modern
Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan
The hugely popular Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884–1934) is an emblematic figure of Japan’s rapidly changing cultural milieu in the early twentieth century. His graphic works include leftist and antiwar illustrations in socialist bulletins, wrenching...
ISBN: 9780295746838
more detailsWhere Dragon Veins Meet
The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe
Winner of the 2023 On the Brinck Book Award, presented by the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning
An auspicious political landscape, represented in image and text
In 1702, the second emperor of the...
ISBN: 9780295745800
more detailsEmpire of Style
Silk and Fashion in Tang China
Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of...
ISBN: 9780295745305
more detailsClimate 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, Sugata Ray...
ISBN: 9780295745374
more detailsEulogy 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 CE, was once carved...
ISBN: 9780295746364
more detailsMountain 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 India was transformed into a...
ISBN: 9780295744513
more detailsFlowering 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 of materialism and commodification of painting...
ISBN: 9780295743417
more detailsCreating the Universe
Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism
Winner, 2018 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities
Buddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmology is a rich language for...
ISBN: 9780295744063
more detailsExcavating the Afterlife
The Archaeology of Early Chinese Religion
In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from groups of well-preserved tombs...
ISBN: 9780295994499
more detailsImperial 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 artists of the imperial painting academy, including a...
ISBN: 9780295994109
more detailsChang'an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture
In this interdisciplinary narrative, the never-ending "completion" of China's most important street offers a broad view of the relationship between art and ideology in modern China. Chang'an Avenue, named after China's ancient capital (whose name...
ISBN: 9780295992136
more detailsThe 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 (1897–1971), and Shi Lu (1919–82)—during China’s Cultural Revolution...
ISBN: 9780295741956
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