History of art

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This very rare series of Japanese paintings depicts everyday artisans in feudal Japan.

Explore Japanese folk artcalled mingeiwith this beautifully illustrated book.

Make colorful and fun paper craft projects with this easy origami ebook.

Appreciate the understated glamour and traditional comfort in this collection of the most excellent examples of timeless Korean architecture.

Traditional Japanese design imbues objects with a sense of history and artistry that easily reaches across cultural boundaries.

With dozens of color photographs and fun, informative text, this guide to Japanese otafuku is a delight for collectors or Japanese culture enthusiasts.

This Japanese ink painting guide is presented by master painter, Chiura Obata, a well-known Japanese artist.

This very rare series of Japanese paintings depicts everyday artisans in feudal Japan.

Discriminating decorators and collectors, no less than dealers and researchers in antiques, have long felt the need of a comprehensive study of the ornamented chair and its development in America.

The Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism is an authoritative text on the specifically Tibetan branch of Buddhismone which possesses a rich visual history of Buddhist art and Iconagraphy.

A concise, information-packed background of the history and culture of Vietnam, including the country's relations with the United States.

This authoritative and definitive work contains the first formal history of antique trays every published.

In this fascinating, informal approach to art appreciation, an eminent Indian scholar reveals the crucial difference between merely looking at and really seeing painting and sculpture, drawing and architecture.

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Asian Accents fuses an Eastern tradition of serenity and balance with a Western sense of fun and curiosity.

This beautiful book contains fascinating text and over 170 unique photographs of one of the most interesting but least well known cultures in the Indonesian Archipelago.

Art Glass Nouveau is an exploration of the magnificent beauty of colored glass art.

Traditional Japanese design imbues objects with a sense of history and artistry that easily reaches across cultural boundaries.

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This beautiful book contains fascinating text and over 170 unique photographs of one of the most interesting but least well known cultures in the Indonesian Archipelago.

Appreciate the understated glamour and traditional comfort in this collection of the most excellent examples of timeless Korean architecture.

The landmark study of the first major woman painter of the Renaissancenow revised and expanded to include new discoveriesSince it was first published, Sofonisba's Lesson has ushered in a major reassessment of Sofonisba Anguissola (15321625), a remarkable painter who changed the image of women's education in Europe and transformed Western attitudes about who could be an artist.

The landmark study of the first major woman painter of the Renaissancenow revised and expanded to include new discoveriesSince it was first published, Sofonisba's Lesson has ushered in a major reassessment of Sofonisba Anguissola (15321625), a remarkable painter who changed the image of women's education in Europe and transformed Western attitudes about who could be an artist.

This is a comprehensive collection of essays about women artists working with abstraction in postwar Rome, from the late 1940s through the 1970s.

This is a comprehensive collection of essays about women artists working with abstraction in postwar Rome, from the late 1940s through the 1970s.

This volume explores contemporary artistic practices developed in material culture museums to reimagine historic collections.

Art historian and critic Steven Henry Madoff offers a contemporary reframing of modernist art and the way it presages installation and performance art For more than a century, European modernist art has been written about as a profound expression of fragmentation-of an alienated world in pieces.

New York City's downtown scene of the 1970s and 1980s is synonymous with underground film, video, and performance art.

I Want to Dance with You focuses on five contemporary Mexican women artists-Gina Arizpe, Melissa Garcia, Nuria Montiel, Brenda Anayatzin Ortiz, and Laura Valencia-analyzing their artistic projects since the early 2000s as a response to escalations in the Mexican drug war, feminicide, state-sanctioned violence, and globalization.

This volume provides background texts for the early modern origins of pornography including its philosophic and literary foundations.

Surrealism has been criticised for having been too steeped in idealism and poetry to have been an effective force for political and personal emancipation in the early twentieth century.

This volume examines the growth of high-end literary pornographic productions that took place towards the final quarter of the nineteenth century and were largely published on the continent where control of production was lax.

This volume concerns itself with arrival of mass pornography at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.

This volume concerns itself with arrival of mass pornography at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.

This volume provides background texts for the early modern origins of pornography including its philosophic and literary foundations.

This volume examines the growth of high-end literary pornographic productions that took place towards the final quarter of the nineteenth century and were largely published on the continent where control of production was lax.

This volume focuses on the entanglement of pornography and science.

Surrealism has been criticised for having been too steeped in idealism and poetry to have been an effective force for political and personal emancipation in the early twentieth century.

This volume focuses on the entanglement of pornography and science.

Art historian and critic Steven Henry Madoff offers a contemporary reframing of modernist art and the way it presages installation and performance art For more than a century, European modernist art has been written about as a profound expression of fragmentation-of an alienated world in pieces.

Examining the history of Soviet museums in the 1920s and 1930s, this book engages with the core problem of interwar museology: adequately representing the historical development of art to create a plausible and coherent version of its evolution.

This volume explores contemporary artistic practices developed in material culture museums to reimagine historic collections.

From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self.

Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism.

Longlisted for the American Library in Paris book award 2026A Shortlist 'Must Read' non-fiction bookA glorious fusion of history and art, A Vast Horizon tells the story of Pablo Picasso and his free-spirited friends, including Lee Miller and Man Ray, in the tumultuous years around the Second World War.

The Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism is an authoritative text on the specifically Tibetan branch of Buddhismone which possesses a rich visual history of Buddhist art and Iconagraphy.

Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism.

In a Reformation kingdom ill-used to queens, Elizabeth I needed a very particular image to hold her divided country together.