Milan: Cassell Publishers, 1987. — 158 p. The origins of bronze-working in China are mysterious and deeply rooted in ancient Chinese myths. Metallurgy in all its forms seemed miraculous to the ordinary man, and every object, sword or vessel was thought to possess a spirit of its own. Those who worked with metals seemed to be wizards with supernatural powers, all the more so...
New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1998. — xx, 329 p., maps. — ISBN: 9780810969094. New Lower Price Between 1850 and today, China has undergone an unprecedented series of shocks and transformations. This dramatic period--which has seen urban industrialization, conquest by foreign powers, civil wars, changing governments and, more recently, a gradual opening to the...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. — xii, 420 p.: ill. — (Global Chinese Culture) — ISBN: 9780231512008. This study surveys how historical violence and atrocity have been presented, represented, and projected in contemporary Chinese cultural texts and explores what these repre sen ta tions tell us about history, memory, and the shifting status of national identity. What...
Tuttle Publishing, 2011. — 235 p. — ISBN: 0804816247, 978-1462902958. In this stimulating art history, noted Oriental art authority Dr. Hugo Munsterberg traces the history of Chinese art dynasty by dynasty, elucidating the origins and development of major movements in Chinese painting, ceramics, bronzes, sculpture, and architecture. He clearly describes and defines the...
BRILL, 2013. — 363 p. — ISBN: 9004250980, 978-9004250987 In Fragmenting Modernisms , Carolyn FitzGerald traces the evolution of Chinese modernism during the War of Resistance against Japan (1937-45) and Chinese Civil War (1945-49) through a series of close readings of fiction, poetry, film, and visual art. About the Author: Carolyn FitzGerald, Ph.D. (2007), University of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. — xii, 276 p.: illustrations. Includes bibliographical references and index. — ISBN: 9781107446373 (Paperback). Exploring a wealth of images ranging from woodblock prints to oil paintings, this beautifully illustrated full-color study takes up key elements of the visual culture produced in the People’s Republic of China from its...
The Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1969. — 168 p. Outside Europe, there is no livelier, richer or more technically accomplished tradition of painting than that of China. Chinese painting has for a long time attracted attention in the West, not continuously, perhaps, and particularly at first only to be instinctively but wrongly compared with Western standards of technique and...
Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University. Printed in China by Everbest Printing Company, 2016. — 59 p. with illustrations by Shen Yu and Matteo Ripa; translated by Richard E. Strassberg, with introductions by Richard E. Strassberg and Stephen H. Whiteman. Map of the Thirty-Six Views Redesigning Sovereignity The Kangxi Emperor, the Mountain Estate for Escaping the Heat,...
Wiley / Blackwell, 2016. — 583 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4443-3913-0. Exploring the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day, this comprehensive volume includes two dozen newly-commissioned essays spanning the theories, genres, and media central to Chinese art and theory throughout its history. Provides an exceptional collection of essays promoting a...
Dover Publications, 1971. — 315 p. — (Dover Pictorial Archives). — ISBN: 978-0486226330. 300 authentic, solid-silhouette designs printed in colors: phoenix, chrysanthemum, lotus, plum blossom, butterfly, fish, boat, etc. Provides rare source of ideas and direct reproduction wherever Oriental flavor is needed. "One of the most aesthetically pleasing books to cross our desk in a...
Doubleday & Company, 1976. — 302 p. National art treasures depict the evolution of Chinese culture between the Neolithic Age and the Industrial Revolution.
Doubleday & Company, 1976. — 302 p. National art treasures depict the evolution of Chinese culture between the Neolithic Age and the Industrial Revolution.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. — 408 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-226-0. Nearly 4,000 years ago, the ancient Chinese made a discovery that would determine the course of their history and culture for two millennia — the alloy of tin and copper known as bronze. Bronze was used for tools and weapons and even musical instruments, but the Great Bronze Age of China has come down...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. — 375 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-806-4 In 1961-62, the exhibition "Chinese Art Treasures" brought a selection of 231 works from National Palace Museum, Taipei, to five American museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, establishing a new benchmark in Chinese studies and introducing a whole generation of Americans to the highest...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1991. — 615 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-604-5 In May of 1985, an international symposium was held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in honor of John M. Crawford, Jr., whose gifts of Chinese calligraphy and painting have constituted a significant addition to the Museum's holdings. Over a three-day period, senior scholars from China, Japan, Taiwan,...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. — 103 p. — ISBN: 9781588391537. The imperial workshops of Yongle (r. 1403–24), third emperor of the Ming dynasty, produced superb paintings, sculptures, porcelains, and other luxury objects that became the foundation for subsequent developments in the arts for the remainder of the Ming dynasty. This volume traces the roots of the Yongle...
Watt, James C. Y., An Jiayao, Angela F. Howard, Boris I. Marshak, Su Bai, and Zhao Feng, with contributions by Prudence O. Harper, et al. — Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-0300104875. The Han (221 B.C.–A.D. 206) and Tang (618–907) dynasties mark the two great eras of early imperial China. From the fall of the Han at the turn of the third century to...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. — 96 p. — ISBN: 978-0300193015. China is a vast and populous country, moving rapidly on all fronts to prepare itself for life in the twenty-first century. Heir to a resplendent ancient culture, modern China is following a unique developmental path that evolves from this long and rich cultural tradition. Our understanding of the...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2011. — 424 p. — ISBN10: 0262014947; ISBN13: 978-0262014946. To the extent that Chinese contemporary art has become a global phenomenon, it is largely through the groundbreaking exhibitions curated by Gao Minglu: "China/Avant-Garde" (Beijing, 1989), "Inside Out: New Chinese Art" (Asia Society, New York, 1998), and "The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese...
Dover Publications, 1978. — 155 p. — ISBN10: 0486237079 / ISBN13: 978-0486237077. Brush and ink — the required path to the "three perfections" of Chinese art — painting, calligraphy, poetry. The complex path to Chinese art, through painting and calligraphy(and ultimately poetry), is revealed through a lucidly described tour of the John M. Crawford, Jr. collection of Chinese...