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9781840683165 | Scb Distributors, June 30, 2014, cover price $29.95
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9781624120268 | Seoul Selection USA Inc, March 27, 2014, cover price $39.00
Product Description: A rare collection of Chinese paintings is magnificently presented in this book, which explores a politically turbulent yet creatively dynamic period in China’s history. Comprising 130 paintings from the 17th century, the Tsao Family Collection is singularly comprehensive, including works by nearly all of the most important Chinese painters of the period...read more
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9783791355214 | Prestel Pub, August 15, 2016, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: A rare collection of Chinese paintings is magnificently presented in this book, which explores a politically turbulent yet creatively dynamic period in China’s history.
Product Description: The first Chengdu Biennale was held in 2001. The 2011 biennale surveyed three genres curated by Lu Peng (for art), Ou Ning (for design) and Zhi Wenjun (for architecture). Participating artists, architects and designers include Zhang Xiaogang, Zhou Chunya and Yue Minjun as well as artists from Japan, Korea and Europe...read more
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9788881588350 | Charta, August 31, 2012, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: The first Chengdu Biennale was held in 2001.
Product Description: Held at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida, 28 Chinese was the culmination of six research trips that the Rubell family made to China between 2001 and 2012, over the course of which they visited more than 100 studios. This publication gathers pieces by 28 artists working across several generations and in a myriad of themes, offering a broad survey of the Chinese art world today...read more
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9780991177004 | Bilingual edition (Rubell Family Collection, April 30, 2014), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Held at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida, 28 Chinese was the culmination of six research trips that the Rubell family made to China between 2001 and 2012, over the course of which they visited more than 100 studios.
Product Description: 5000 Years of Chinese Art is a full-size, splendidly illustrated volume offering a vista of five thousand years of Chinese art. Nearly six hundred colour plates have been arranged chronologically, just one to a page in order to ensure sufficient space for each work of art...read more
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9781908175281 | Box ltd edition (Gingko Pr Inc, October 1, 2014), cover price $125.00 | About this edition: 5000 Years of Chinese Art is a full-size, splendidly illustrated volume offering a vista of five thousand years of Chinese art.
Product Description: 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade is a concise visual survey of art-historically important jade spanning the Neolithic period to the 19th century, offering a stunning visual journey through themes and time periods important in the history of jade in China...read more
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9780615471808 | San Antonio Museum of Art, November 14, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade is a concise visual survey of art-historically important jade spanning the Neolithic period to the 19th century, offering a stunning visual journey through themes and time periods important in the history of jade in China.
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9788174368539 | Box edition (Roli Books Private Ltd, November 16, 2012), cover price $75.00
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9783894798505 | Bilingual edition (Nicolai Verlag, October 1, 2014), cover price $45.00
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9780028033716 | McGraw-Hill, June 1, 1998, cover price $424.76 | also contains Japanese Floral Patterns and Motifs
9780028033716 | McGraw-Hill, June 1, 1998, cover price $424.76 | also contains Japanese Floral Patterns and Motifs
Product Description: This volume considers how and why people bought, sold, donated, and received works of art during Japan's Edo period (1600-1868), when opportunities to obtain art increased as audiences for art expanded. Many urbanites enjoyed money in their pockets and access to information, which allowed them to emerge as influential consumers...read more
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9781891640506 | Floating World Edithions, August 15, 2007, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This volume considers how and why people bought, sold, donated, and received works of art during Japan's Edo period (1600-1868), when opportunities to obtain art increased as audiences for art expanded.
Product Description: This inquiry is an undertaking to demonstrate that aesthetic experience in the classical Indian tradition, on its own merit, without being subordinated to rituals and practices commonly held under the rubric of religion, is capable of providing a transcendent experience to a prepared aesthete...read more
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9788120813878 | Gardners Books, December 1, 1996, cover price $19.75 | About this edition: This inquiry is an undertaking to demonstrate that aesthetic experience in the classical Indian tradition, on its own merit, without being subordinated to rituals and practices commonly held under the rubric of religion, is capable of providing a transcendent experience to a prepared aesthete.
Product Description: Japan s classical tradition underpinned almost every area of cultural production throughout the early modern or Edo period (1615 1868). This book offers the first in-depth account of three aesthetic strategies unexpected juxtaposition ("mitate"), casual adaptation ("yatsushi") and modern standards of style ("f ry ") that shaped the way Edo popular culture and particularly the Floating World absorbed and responded to this force of cultural authority...read more
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9789004209879 | Brill Academic Pub, November 1, 2012, cover price $127.00 | About this edition: Japan s classical tradition underpinned almost every area of cultural production throughout the early modern or Edo period (1615 1868).
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9780230105393 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 30, 2016, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This book aims to explore cultural tensions in Japanese contemporary art through theory, art and archival documents, and material culture.
Product Description: The symposium that was held in 2009 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, on the occasion of the exhibition "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," brought together an exceptional group of scholars responsible for the excavation and interpretation of the magnificent works on view in the show...read more
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9780300179545 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 11, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The symposium that was held in 2009 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, on the occasion of the exhibition "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," brought together an exceptional group of scholars responsible for the excavation and interpretation of the magnificent works on view in the show.
Uses articles, first-person accounts, stories, and references to popular culture to chronicle the history of African-Americans from 1619 to the present.
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9780028655321, titled "African-American Culture and History: A Student's Guide" | Macmillan Library Reference, December 1, 2000, cover price $20.01 | also contains Francis Bacon | About this edition: Uses articles, first-person accounts, stories, and references to popular culture to chronicle the history of African-Americans from 1619 to the present.
9780028655345, titled "African-American Culture and History: A Student's Guide" | Macmillan Library Reference, December 1, 2000, cover price $20.01 | also contains Troll Identification and Price Guide | About this edition: Uses articles, first-person accounts, stories, and references to popular culture to chronicle the history of African-Americans from 1619 to the present.
9780028655352, titled "African-American Culture and History: A Student's Guide" | Macmillan Library Reference, December 1, 2000, cover price $20.01 | also contains Persian Painting | About this edition: Uses articles, first-person accounts, stories, and references to popular culture to chronicle the history of African-Americans from 1619 to the present.
9780028655314, titled "African-American Culture and History: A Students Guide" | Macmillan Library Reference, December 1, 2000, cover price $725.00 | About this edition: Uses articles, first-person accounts, stories, and references to popular culture to chronicle the history of African-Americans from 1619 to the present.
9780028655338, titled "African-American Culture and History: A Student's Guide" | Macmillan Library Reference, December 1, 2000, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: Uses articles, first-person accounts, stories, and references to popular culture to chronicle the history of African-Americans from 1619 to the present.
Product Description: The previous edition of Ship Design for Efficiency and Economy was published as a Butterworth's marine engineering title. It has now been completely revised and updated by Schneekluth and Bertram. This book gives advice to students and naval architects on how to design ships - in particular with regard to hull design...read more
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9780408027908, titled "Ship Design for Efficiency and Economy" | Butterworth-Heinemann, October 1, 1987, cover price $125.00 | also contains Ship Design for Efficiency and Economy | About this edition: The previous edition of Ship Design for Efficiency and Economy was published as a Butterworth's marine engineering title.
Product Description: Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist and activist known for sculpture, installation, architecture, film, and social criticism. For his controversial work, Ai was detained in April 2011, released on bail after 81 days, and he remains under intense police surveillance, prohibited from leaving Beijing...read more
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9781614281917 | Editions Assouline, April 8, 2014, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist and activist known for sculpture, installation, architecture, film, and social criticism.
Product Description: Since constructing his own studio in 1999, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has designed or collaborated with other architects on a wide range of architectural projects. These collaborations were the subject of Ai Weiwei: Art/Architecture, a 2011 exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, which this catalogue accompanies...read more
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9783863350413 | Bilingual edition (Kunsthaus Bregenz, October 15, 2011), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Since constructing his own studio in 1999, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has designed or collaborated with other architects on a wide range of architectural projects.
Product Description: This new Ai Weiwei (born 1957) monograph is published on the occasion of his exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennale, presented by Zuecca Project Space and the Lisson Gallery, and offers a summary of the artist's work between 2008 and 2013...read more
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9783863355593 | Walther Konig, October 31, 2014, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This new Ai Weiwei (born 1957) monograph is published on the occasion of his exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennale, presented by Zuecca Project Space and the Lisson Gallery, and offers a summary of the artist's work between 2008 and 2013.
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9783037642108 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, January 31, 2013, cover price $34.95
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9788434313316 | Poligrafa Ediciones Sa, November 30, 2014, cover price $40.00
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9788415691969 | Mul edition (LA Fabrica, June 23, 2015), cover price $60.00
Product Description: Ferdinand Aichhorn's passion for traditional Asian textiles began in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1977. This volume is devoted to batik, including the resist techniques of wax method, Âtie and dyeâ, block printing and textile painting...read more
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9783702508272 | Verlag Anton Pustet, October 1, 2016, cover price $33.99 | About this edition: Ferdinand Aichhorn's passion for traditional Asian textiles began in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1977.
Product Description: Ferdinand Aichhorn's passion for traditional Asian textiles began in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1977. This volume presents those items of the collection produced in the ikat technique of dyeing and weaving. Salzburg architect Ferdinand Aichhorn is an aficionado of traditional Asian textiles, which he has been collecting for over 40 years...read more
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9783702508265 | Verlag Anton Pustet, October 1, 2016, cover price $31.99 | About this edition: Ferdinand Aichhorn's passion for traditional Asian textiles began in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1977.
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