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	Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000 (Hardcover) - 1588860574 Published to coincide with the First Guangzhou Triennial (opening November 18, 2002), this volume provides a systematic description and analysis of Chinese experimental art and cinema of the 90s, the subject of the Triennial. This volume consists of three parts: Part One provides an overview of 90s' Chinese cinema with seventeen scholarly essays on Chinese cinema and experimental art; Part Two is a catalogue of 130 works by 120 artists selected for the Triennial and provides an analysis in th... $80.75     View Details Add To Cart
	Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art 1990-2000 (PB) - 1588860361 Published to coincide with the First Guangzhou Triennial (opening November 18, 2002), this volume provides a systematic description and analysis of Chinese experimental art and cinema of the 90s, the subject of the Triennial. This volume consists of three parts: Part One provides an overview of 90s' Chinese cinema with seventeen scholarly essays on Chinese cinema and experimental art; Part Two is a catalogue of 130 works by 120 artists selected for the Triennial and provides an analysis in th... $63.75     View Details Add To Cart
	Robert Kuo - Contemporary Furniture from Traditional Methods - 1878529900 Robert Kuo's work can be seen around the world, from the National History Museum in Taipei to Singapore Ritz-Carlton and New York's Four Seasons Hotel, as well as in the private collections of Geoffrey Beene, Gianfranco Ferre, and James Galanos. He works with timeless motifs from the Han and Ming dynasties. This catalogue presents 20 of Robert Kuo's works. The techniques and methods used date back many centuries. The woods used in making the furniture piecess in the collection are indigenous... $37.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collection - 0810944650 The bronze ritual vessel, the defining artifact of early Chinese civilization, is the subject of this monumental study of Shang ritual bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. A comprehensive introduction, the most thorough treatment of Shang bronzes in any language, lays the foundation for 104 catalogue entries, many of which explore in greater detail specific problems in casting technology, epigraphy, vessel typology, and provincial bronze styles. Color plates of all the Sackler bronze... $80.75     View Details Add To Cart
	Sparkling Splendours: The Art of Ancient Chinese Carving on Rock Crystal and Agate - 9627101494 This is a catalogue to accompany an exhibition of Sparkling Splendors: The Art of Ancient Chinese Carvings on Rock Crystal and Agate at the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Authored by Roger Chow and edited by Lai Suk Yee. The 281 pieces of exhibits, dating from the Neolithic period to the Ming dynasty, are all drawn from the Taoshi Zhai Collection of Mr. Roger Chow. All carved in rock crystal and agate, a great variety of tools, adornments, utensils, pendants, plaques and min... $75.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Special Exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Enamelled Porcelain of the Imperial Ateliers - 9575621255 The enameled porcelains produced in the reign of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong housed in the National Palace Museum are lavishly illustrated in this book. The pieces include falangcai (enameled porcelain), yangcai (foreign enamel paints), and fencai (famille rose), which are popular among collectors and often highly prized. The introductory essay discusses the development and distinction of the porcelains among different reigns. $68.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Story of Chinese Landscape Design - 9575303563 The Story of Chinese Landscape Design: External Forms and Internal Visions was written by Prof. Pao-Teh Han, one of the most respected of Taiwanese architects. Prof Han describes his book as simply an attempt at an interpretation of the culture of Chinese landscape gardens, in the hope that it would arouse the vast reading public in becoming interested in a deeper understanding of the subject. It is not, he continues, an academic thesis, nor is it a popular article, or a pic... $28.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Straits Chinese Furniture: A Collector's Guide - 9812040927 Straits Chinese furniture is a fusion of Chinese Qing dynasty ornateness and early 19th-century English dignity and decorum. Isolated from Chinese trends as well as European fashions, it developed its own style and uses in the Straits Settlements of Singapore, Malacca and Penang. This book traces the origins and characteristics of Stratis Chinese furniture and gives us pointers on how to date old furniture from their ornamentation and patina. In 100 stunning photographs, it presents the forme... $32.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Studies of Tang Mandala in the Famen Monastery Crypt - 9627571172 This volume is a thorough research on important Tang Buddhist gold and silver relics excavated at the Famen temple site. Includes details of the excavations, textual materials and inscriptions, close-up details of the Buddhist images on the relics and their identification. An excellent book on this topic. $84.00     View Details Add To Cart
	T'ang Haywen: Path of Ink - 295175941X Contrary to the generally held belief, Chinese painting has never ceased to evolve. At the various stages of its growth, individuality and respect for tradition acted together or in opposition to produce countless treasures and innovations. The example of T'ang Haywen, in the second half of the 20th century, illustrates this phenomenon particularly well. T'ang never received any formal education in art apart from learning calligraphy from his grandfather, T'ang Yien. In Paris, he acquainted h... $45.38     View Details Add To Cart
	Tarim Basin Carpet: A Tradition in Transition - 9627956082 The Tarim Basin covers the southern half of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China's north-west. It is well-known of its unique carpet tradition. Tarim Basin carpets synthesize influences of Turkish, Persian, Indian, Central Asian and Chinese artistic traditions, but yet, their designs, bold and serene, are unmistakable. This volume presents the latest study of the subject in light of new archaeological finds and recent field trips. It also includes 12 examples of the late 18th to 19t... $45.38     View Details Add To Cart
	The Ceramics of China: 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D. - 0764318438 Chinese pottery and porcelain has been admired, sought after, fought over, and emulated throughout the history of the civilized world. In form, color, and technique, China led the world in the ceramic arts. Its perfection of hard paste porcelain in the Ming Dynasty followed a fascinating record of ceramic production that is traceable back to the 5,000 B.C. The Ceramics of China provides text and pictures that scan the scope of China's history and ceramic production from the Neolithic t... $44.95     View Details Add To Cart
	The Forbidden City: Collection of Photographs by Hu Chui - 7800071537 Hu Chui was born in 1952 into a scholarly family in Shanghai, China and has had a keen interest in photography since childhood. In 1969, he was sent to the countryside, where he spent a number of years working as a farmer and manual laborer. During that time, Hu Chui continued with his avid pursuit of photographic art, learning theories and techniques on his own. In 1978 Hu Chui joined the Palace Museum as a photographer. He later took charge of the Museums photography studio in 1985. Through... $24.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Themes and Variations: The Zisha Pottery of Chen Mingyuan - 9627101389 Themes and Variations: The Zisha Pottery of Chen Mingyuan is the first of its kind with such extensive exhibits and research work devoted to one single Yixing potter. Chen Mingyuan, a master potter active during the Kangxi reign of the Qing dynasty. Chen Mingyuan created zisha pottery (purple clay or yixing pottery) in the forms of objects for scholar's desk, archaistic vessels, tea wares and trompe l'oeil pieces. He enriched the art of zisha potting with the cultivated taste of the li... $57.50     View Details Add To Cart
	The Palace of Established Happiness: Restoring a Garden in the Forbidden City - 9787800473319 The Qianlong emperor considered gardens essential to a ruler's mental and emotional well-being. The first garden he built, begun in 1742, was attached to Jianfu gong, the Palace of Established Happiness, in the northwest quarter of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Filled with exquisite pavilions, weathered rocks, sunken courtyards and winding galleries, this garden became Qianlong's favorite retreat. He kept the most precious ancient scrolls from his art collection in one of the pavilions there... $47.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Three Decades of Acquisition Chinese University of Hong Kong - 9627102583 This catalogue accompanies an exhibition presented by the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong to celebrate its 30th anniversary. It includes 110 prized items from the Art Museum s collections of painting, calligraphy, epigraphy, objects for scholar s desk, ceramics, bronze and jade, and also, sculpture and miscellaneous. The selected holdings, spanning from Neolithic to modern times, represent thousands of years of culture. All exhibits are reproduced in full color with detailed d... $105.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Translucent World: Chinese Jade from the Forbidden City - 9780734763976 This selection of 185 works provides a wonderful overview of the history of the art of jade carving in China. It demonstrates not only the variety and evolution of technical dexterity that is such a characteristic of jade carving in China, but also the stone's ritualistic, symbolic and decorative functions. As a material of unparalleled beauty and strength, jade acquired powerful symbolic values in the Chinese psyche, hence its significant role as the preferred material for so many symbolic a... $42.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Virtuous Treasures: Chinese Jades for the Scholars Tabl - 9789628038831 Featuring over 140 jades, dating mostly to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), this exhibition brings together, for the first time, jades from several private collections alongside examples from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong to illustrate the extraordinary achievements of jade carving. The exhibit includes examples carved into pleasingly tactile forms that were carried around to bring delight and inspiration to their owners. Featu... $92.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Visible Traces: Rare Books & Special Collections from the National Library of China - 0964533715 Visible Traces: Rare Books and Special Collections from the National Library of China showcases an integral part of Chinese history as documentation and as works of art. The collection of inscribed oracle bones, rubbings, manuscripts, maps, printed books, and artifacts from minority cultures traces, in broad strokes, the evolution of the written and printed word in China, against the vivid backdrop of Chinese society and history. The catalogue is divided into 4 main sections: "Rare Books and... $55.25     View Details Add To Cart
	Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection - 0810939879 This set is the second installation in a three-volume catalog of the Sackler collection of ancient Chinese bronzes at Harvard University, undertaken by some of the premier scholars in the field. Robert W. Bagley's Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1987) and Jenny F. So's forthcoming Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections complete the set. Rawson's contribution starts with Volume IIA, a survey of Western Zhou (c... $106.25     View Details Add To Cart

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