Oriental art books

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Northwest artist Frances Blakemore had a lifelong love affair with Japan. She first went to Japan in 1935 and spent...  Read More >>

The notion of a cross-cultural dialogue has not figured in the analysis of harem paintings, largely because the...  Read More >>

Brings to light a body of harem imagery that was created through a dynamic process of cultural exchange. The author...  Read More >>

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The art of the snuff bottle occupies an important position in the history of arts and crafts of both China and the...  Read More >>

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These 285 strikingly beautiful black-and-white illustrations of plants, flowers, symbols, animals, water and wave...  Read More >>

In Japanese culture, emptiness and simplicity have long been the central principles of design, and are allied closely...  Read More >>

Considers how Japan encountered the West and learned about and adopted their arts, culture, and science, and how...  Read More >>

Drawn from the Chu-tsing Li collection of modern and contemporary Chinese paintings, the finest and most comprehensive...  Read More >>

Explores, with more than 35 hands-on painting activities, how to create Chinese-style brush paintings. This book...  Read More >>

This illustrated volume brings together an international group of scholars from many specialities to explore the...  Read More >>

This book was researched through personal visits to World Heritage sites in India and the monuments associated with...  Read More >>

John Castagno's Artists' Signatures and Monograms have become the standard reference source for galleries, museums,...  Read More >>

Arab painting is treated here as a significant artistic corpus in its own right. Rejecting the traditional emphasis...  Read More >>

Color woodblock prints, early maps of Asia and beyond, and gorgeously detailed scrolls are just some of the highlights...  Read More >>

Mountains of the Heart explores Japan's landscape through the eyes of a renowned artist and provides new perspectives...  Read More >>

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The prolific Utagawa school is one of the most famous lineages of print artists in the history of Japanese woodblock...  Read More >>

Utagawa Hiroshige was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition which refers to the famous Japanese...  Read More >>

Reflecting centuries of design from traditional crafts and textiles, 279 resplendent images will leave artists and...  Read More >>

The art of the snuff bottle has its origins in the introduction of tobacco snuff to the Imperial Court of the Manchus...  Read More >>

Explores the art and accoutrements associated with opium smoking that reached a pinnacle in nineteenth-century China....  Read More >>