Product Description: "Hulk Elvis represents for me both Western and Eastern culture, a sense of a guardian, a protector, that at the same time is capable of bringing the house down.” —Jeff Koons

Product Description: Michael Chow, born Zhou Yinghua in Shanghai in 1939, was abruptly uprooted to England at the age of 13, where he lost his family and name. Voice for My Father illuminates Chow's long journey, celebrating both father--Beijing opera star Zhou Xinfang--and son, the artist and legendary restaurateur, who has recently made a triumphant return to painting...read more

Product Description: A passion across centuries. New York career woman Monica Wagner was flying into London when suddenly, unbelievably, she found herself in a horse drawn carriage, riding through the cobbled streets to an unknown fate. Suddenly she was living the life of a beautiful heiress, the Baroness Marlena von Mantz amid the dazzing gaiety of Regency London- and the passionate attentions of her handsome guardian...read more

Product Description: "Zhao Gang (b. Beijing 1961; lives and works in New York) is among the most interesting Chinese artists of his generation. He has worked in painting since the early 1980s; in 1989, he was the youngest member of the famous artists' association The Stars, which successfully defied the Chinese authorities' censorship of art...read more

Product Description: The Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO) art collective was founded in 2005 by Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua and Leng Lin. PSFO initiates group discussions in locations such as factories, farms, schools, artist’s studios, bathhouses and department stores...read more

Product Description: Controversial Beijing-based artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu (who represented China in the 2007 Venice Biennial) are known for using biological materials, such as live animals, human fat tissue and animal cadavers, in their abject installations, to confront issues of life, death and human struggle...read more

Product Description: Born in 1957, Beijing-based Ai Weiwei is perhaps the most internationally visible contemporary Chinese artist. Philip Tinari has described his practice as a, "multitasking sprawl--encompassing artmaking, curating, publishing and architectural design--[that] threatens to answer the vaguely unsettling question, What would Andy Warhol's career have looked like if it had played out in turn-of-the-millennium China? (For one thing, architecture might have stood in for film; where Warhol created an alter-Hollywood, Ai is a self-invented starchitect)...read more

Product Description: With informed essays and a four hundred page photographic portrait of artists' homes, studios, and galleries, Artists in China documents the personal and professional experiences of the most important Chinese artists working today.