Kingdom of Beauty : Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan

Kim Brandt
Paperback - $49.95

Kingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world power. Kim Brandts account of the min ...

Asian Art

Rebecca Brown
Paperback - $113.95

"Asian Art" is the first comprehensive anthology of important primary documents and key contemporary scholarship on Asian art history.

Sacred Visions : Early Paintings from Central Tibet

Robert Bruce-Gardner
Hardcover - $45.95

This magnificently illustrated catalogue documents a landmark exhibition of more than sixty of the finest extant Tibetan works.

The Fine Art of Chinese Brush Painting

Michael Brunelle
Paperback - $29.95

This extraordinary on-the-page class in brush painting explores both the technical and spiritual aspects of China's ancient art, helping students to paint with confidence, skill, and understanding. Lavishly packed with breathtaking illustrations and ...

Tibetan Furniture

Chris Buckley
Hardcover - $92.95

Tibetan Furniture is an authoritative and compre- hensive resource. This book explains the forms and uses of Tibetan furniture, the construction an decoration of the main types, and the history of many designs.

Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes : The Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections

Emma C. Bunker
Hardcover - $90.95

This fascinating book examines the artistic exchange between the nomadic peoples of what is now Inner Mongolia and their settled Chinese neighbors during the first millennium B.C.

Lao Close Encounters

John J. S. Burton
Paperback - $56.95

This is a new pictorial odyssey through Laos, with 1,200 color photographs of subjects closely encountered in all districts throughout the length and breadth of the land btwn 2001 and 2005, identified and indexed in an almost encyclopedic fashion.

The Turkic Speaking Peoples : 2,000 Years of Art and Culture from Inner Asia to the Balkans

Ergun Cagatay
Hardcover - $137.95

Index of Early Chinese Painters & Paintings : T'Ang, Sung, Yuan

James Cahill
Paperback - $99.95

First published in 1980, James Cahill's Index is the most comprehensive English-language compilation available on Chinese painters and their works from the late 6th through the mid-14th century. Incorporating the work of Ellen Johnston Laing and Osva ...

The Lyric Journey : Poetic Painting in China and Japan

James Cahill
Paperback - $46.95

Creating paintings with poetic resonances, sometimes with ties to specific lines of poetry, is a practice that began in China in the eleventh century, the Northern Sung period. Cahill vividly surveys its first great flowering among artists working in ...