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Seven Discourses on Art (Webster's Chinese Traditional Thesaurus Edition)
by Inc Icon Group International
Saptamaatorkaa Worship and Sculptures (Perspectives in Indian Art & Archaeology, #3)
by Shivaji Pannikar
Opium Weights and Other Animal-Shaped Weights
by R. J. Willis and G. Herman
The commonly used but incorrect term "opium weight" refers to the distinctive and highly collectible animal-shaped weights that originated in Burma and neighbouring regions. In fact, the weights were hardly used for opium, being found mainly in markets, initially for weighing bronze, silver and gold, but later for all sorts of commodities. Originating in the Burmese kingdoms of Bagan and Ava, their initial designs were drawn from animals linked with stories from the life of the Buddha, local rel...
What lies at the root of Japanese creativity and its architectural artefacts? In his new book, the Japanese architect Yuichiro Edagwa explores this question in detail. By analysing a wide variety of unique exemplary buildings from the sixth century to the present, he determines twelve distinctive characteristics of Japanese architectural creativity and composition, including: intimacy with nature, importance of materials, bipolarity and diversity, asymmetry, devotion to small space, and organic...
Worn by Japanese men as decorative sash toggles, Netsuke were attracting the attention of the Europeans by the late 19th century. Today these delightful art objects are coveted by collectors throughout the world. Netsuke motifs can be mythical beings and insects, molluscs and reptiles, animals that seemed exotic to the Japanese of the Edo and Meiji eras, as well as Dutchmen and other Europeans, Consumate, mastery of the carver's craft in a variety of materials. Among them boxwood, ivory, horn, h...
This title helps you in creating spiritual spaces in your environment with altars and shrines, space clearing and the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui. You can transform your living space with the ancient principles of Feng Shui and space clearing, and enhance the harmony of your house. It offers advice on every level, from how to position the furniture and what shades to paint the walls, to clearing psychic clutter with placement of mirrors and lights. You can learn to sense negative energy, mo...
The Ultimate Netsuke Bibliography
by Norman L Sanfield and Norman L. Sandfield
A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China (Philosophy and Cultural Identity)
by Mary Bittner Wiseman
In A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China, Mary Bittner Wiseman shows that material matters in the work of Chinese artists, where the goal is to call attention to its subjects through the directness and immediacy of its material, like dust from 9/11, 1001 Chinese citizens, paintings made with gunpowder, written words, or the specificity of its sites, like the Three Gorges Dam. Artists are working below the level of language where matter and gesture, texture and touch, instinct and intuiti...
Hokusai 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō 1804 Horizontal
by Cristina Berna and Eric Thomsen
