Oriental art books

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Updated and expanded, this essential reference book critically surveys 150 of the most influential contemporary...  Read More >>

The Pictures of Tilling and Weaving scrolls depict 45 procedures of agriculture and sericulture with each stage...  Read More >>

Korean painting reveals a connectivity with nature that parallels the Korean traditional world view. Living in a...  Read More >>

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The renowned war correspondent John Rich presents a jaw-dropping collection of colour photographs of the Korean...  Read More >>

Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan, 1580s-1680s  Read More >>

Pastimes is the first book in English on Chinese jinshi, or antiquarianism, the pinnacle of traditional connoisseurship...  Read More >>

"Bonus offer: Free ebook ...and talk to the authors. Over 110 color images. The origin of Vedic painting is as old...  Read More >>

An unprecedented volume documenting the mapping and discovery of Asia.  Read More >>

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This book examines Chinese art from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. By means of a series of closely-focused...  Read More >>

English description: The present book is the first large-scale research on the Central Asian crafts' risala, a...  Read More >>

Tian, or Heaven, had been used in China since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god. Examining...  Read More >>

Presents 441 masterpieces of Mongolian Buddhist art from five major Mongolian museums: the Bogd Kahn Palace Museum,...  Read More >>

Describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

As Chinese art continues to reinvent itself, spawning fascinating new genre strains and continuing to hold the global...  Read More >>

Tagore's experiments with ink and colour come alive in this book. It shows how he moved from diagrammatic abstract...  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

This book highlights the specificities of Indian portraiture in sculpted and painted images, its relationship with...  Read More >>

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Offers a fresh case for a greater appreciation of Southeast Asian Ethnographic Art. This title features visually...  Read More >>