Author: Morris Rossabi
The Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south in the thirteenth century. Along with their leader Chinggis Khan th ... |
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A Hidden Inheritance
Author: Edmund De Waal
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited ... |
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The Doheny Scientific Expedition to the Hava Supai Canyon, Northern Arizona
Author: Samuel Hubbard & Charles W. Gilmore
A 1924 expedition to Hava Supai Canyon, Arizona, in the Grand Canyon, uncovered several remarkable ancient pictographs of strange creatures that have been interpreted by some as depicting extinct species or animals that ... |
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Author: Richard T. Neer
In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer offers a new way to understand the epoch-making sculpture of classical Greece. Working at the intersection of art history, archaeology, literature, and aesthetics, he reveals a pe ... |
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Author: Donald Cadzow
Ancient rock art is better known in western North America, but it is also an important feature in the historical landscape of eastern North America. This booklet reprints a report first published in 1934 by the Pennsylva ... |
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Author: Scott Budzynski
This study investigates the relationship between the history of self-portraiture in German art and the historical question of a collective identity. I propose that the turn to the image of the self demonstrates a narciss ... |
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Author: Caroline Hirasawa
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries priests from the Tateyama mountain area (Toyama Prefecture) brought paintings of the mountain, called Tateyama mandara, on campaigns throughout Japan that extolled its merit ... |
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An Anthropological Approach
Author: Olga Sicilia
This work focuses on contemporary Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture - widely known until the early 1990s as Shona Sculpture - from the perspective of a critical anthropological analysis of cultural identity and representation. ... |
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French Comics and the Republic
Author: Joel E. Vessels
In France, Belgium, and other Francophone countries, comic strips---called bande dessinee or "BD" in French---have long been considered a major art form capable of addressing a host of contemporary issues. Among Frenc ... |
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Selected Writings on Singapore Art and Art Criticism
Author: Liu Kang, Ho Ho Ying, T.K. Sabapathy & others
Liu Kang (1911-2004) and Ho Ho Ying (1936-) are important painters in Singapore's art history. But along with their creative practices, they also played key roles as art writers and critics. Their opposing positions on m ... |
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Tradition, Modernity, and Globalization
Author: Christopher Crouch
This book examines three overarching themes: Chinese modernity's (sometimes ambivalent) relationship to tradition at the start of the twentieth century, the processes of economic reform started in the 1980s and their imp ... |
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Myths and Folklore in an Evolving Spiritual Realm
Author: Donald M. Stadtner
The sacred sites of Burma are amongst the most beautiful and spectacular in all of Asia. However, the fame and sacredness of these holy places rests almost solely on the myths and legends that surround their founding and ... |
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Author: Louis Phillips
THE LAST OF THE MARX BROTHERS' WRITERS "Here is a piece of theater you absolutely must not miss,,,. This fine, touching, inventive, and gorgeously zany play.... -Jonathan Saville. Weekly Reader. (San Diego, Ca.) THE ENVO ... |
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From Imagery to Identity
Author: William J. Berg
This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent ... |
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Author: Mina Gregori, Maurizio Marini & Maurizio Serracini
This monograph on the version of the Medusa, which has only recently been attributed to the hand of Caravaggio by the most respected experts, recounts the process of recognition of this masterpiece. Initially the similar ... |
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Author: Erin Currier
"The Paintings of Erin Currier" is a book of unusual contemporary painting described as part portraiture, part collage constructed of recycled consumer refuse she collected in forty countries, part sociopolitical archive ... |
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Vikki Lu Meets the Future: a Memoir and Manifesto
Author: Victoria Lu
It is the fascinating story of China's first female curator and art critic. Victoria Lu (b. 1951) was China's first female curator and contemporary art critic. This autobiography, an account of her 30+ years in the Asian ... |
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On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters
Author: Edwin Jurriens & Jeroen de Kloet
This volume analyzes mediated articulations of "cosmopatriotism" in East and South-East Asian popular cultures and arts. Cosmopatriots navigate between a loyalty to the home country and a sense of longing for and belongi ... |
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30 Oversized Postcards
Author: Blue Lantern Studio
American Women Childrens Illustrators Postcard Book features some of our most important women illustrators, including Humphrey Bogarts mother, Frank Lloyd Wrights sister, students of Rodin and Howard Pyle, the creator of ... |
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Paradise in Islamic Art
Author: Mumtaz Currim
Showcases a portfolio on handwritten Qu'rans and calligraphic art. Jannat introduces the concept of "Heaven on Earth" in popular Muslim art This Volume on Jannat in Islamic art presents images of Paradise from the Indian ... |
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