Unmarked. 36p. Beautiful reproductions in B/W and color. A few smudges on cover. Accompanied a traveling exhibition. Glossary. Chronology. Measures 8.5x10.25 inches.
Our view of Chinese painting has been shaped by Tung Ch'i-ch'ang's (Dong Qichang, 1555-1636) art historical writings. An artist of the Ming period, his ideas have continued to influence Chinese aesthetic theory. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Tabloid style booklet that accompanied this February 22-May 27, 2013 exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Articles on the exhibition and the museum. Illustrated throughout. Advertisements. 24p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. One page in Chinese. Gallery guide for exhibition (Jun 28-Aug 28, 1975). Six-sided/folded. Includes six mall images, a floor plan of the exhibition and an overview of the show by Rene-Yvon Lefebvre d'Argence. • • • View More...
Factory sealed. Unmarked text. Catalog for February 20, 2010 through April 25, 2010 exhibition at the Phoenix, Arizona Museum.
Illustrates 65 contemporary Chinese teapots from a collection plus 200 other items (in miniature). The teapots are from Yixing where the local purple clay deposits are used by skilled potters to make unglazed teapots in very varied styles. • • • View More...
Unmarked book. Fine dust jacket. Illustrated. 251p. Index. Previous owner's stamp on front end page. Offers an insider's perspective by Americans who taught in China. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Exhibition booklet. Extensively illustrated. Includes exhibition checklist. 22p. A rebus is an allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. View More...
Unmarked. Large French flaps. Beautiful copy. Lavishly illustrated, including the artist at work. 68p.
As a 50th anniversary gift to the museum, the Society for Asian Art commissioned a major work by Liu Jianhua, one of China's best-known contemporary installation artists. This is the catalog for the work. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Catalog for exhibition organized by the Asian Art Museum to introduce the spectacular tomb arts excavated in and around Xi'an in Shaaxi province to a broad public.
Also a loose brochure for the exhibition. Bibliography. Beautifully illustrated. Maps and plans. Introductory essay by Patricia Berger. • • • View More...
Unmarked. 1969 edition translated from the 1966 edition, La Pittura Cinese. Dust jacket has a small piece missing at the spine and a tear at front end flap. Some age tanning on pages. 74 plates in full color. Measures 5.5x7.5 inches. A Cameo book. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Piece of tape on cover. Illustrated in black/white and color. 192p. Measures 7.25x9.75 inches.
Uses the lives of the Jade Princes to examine the Han State. Photographs by William MacQuitty. Published to commemorate an exhibition of Chinese Antiquities at the Royal Academy. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Well illustrated. 222-410p. Measures 9x11.5 inches. Includes "Changing Patterns of Divinity and Reform in the Late Northern Wei" by Katherine R. Tsiang; "Hebrew Manuscript Painting in Late Medieval Spain: Signs of a Culture in Transition" by Katrin Kogman-Appel; "The Chapel of the Courtesan and the Quarrel of the Magdalens" by Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe; "New Light on the Capponi Chapel in S. Felicita" by Louis Alexander Waldman; "Between Representations: The Historical and the Visionary in Chen Hongshou's Yaji" by Anne Burkus-Chasson; "Thomas Cole's River in the Catskills as Antipa... View More...
English text. Extensively illustrated. French flaps. 184p. Topics range from the various bureaus to the urban planning commission, worker training, etc.
Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, is the political, economic, educational, and cultural center of Taiwan island, and one of the major hubs of Greater China. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Some crinkling and creasing. Text in English. B/W illustrations. Includes "Some Album Leaves by Liu Sung-Nien and Li Sung. 13p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Some crinkling on pages. Text in English. B/W illustrations. Includes "The Identity of Yang-Mei-Tzu and the Paintings of Ma Yuan, Part I" by Chiang Chao-Shen. 16p. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Illustrated. Includes "Historical Documents in the Manchu Language" by Shen Ching-hung and "The Chinese Porcelain Seminar: An Observer's Report." 13p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Slight chipping on dust jacket, with a crease on inside flap. 33 color illustrations, 214 in black and white. Index. Bibliographic note. 275p. Measures 9.5x11 inches.
This volume looks at the last years of the 18th and early decades of the 19th century, discussing all categories of fine objects made for export, except porcelain, (which is covered in a separate volume). • • • View More...
Unmarked. Illustrated in color and black, white. Artifacts from the Middle Shang to the Han. 144p. Section on inscriptions. Bibliography. Measures 8x9 inches. A few nicks on the edges. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Guide to Macau, an autonomous region on the south coast of China, across the Pearl River Delta from Hong Kong. 160p. 45 photographs. 5 maps. Measures 5.5x8 inches. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Illustrated in color and B/W. Sticker on cover reads Pacificulture-Asia Museum, Pasadena,CA.
Topics include Western Han Tomb No. 61 near Lo-yang, Honan Province, Eastern Han Tombs, Wei-Chin Tombs, etc. Bibliography. Chinese Chronology. 131p. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Illustrated. Includes "The Doctrine of the Mean and Chinese Art" by Chiang Fu-Ts'ung, "Some Bamboo Carving Techniques of the Ming Dynasty" by Na Chih-Liang, "The Identity of Yang Mei-Tzu and the Paintings of Ma Yuan, Part II" by Chiang Chao-Shen, etc. 17p. • • • View More...
