Author: Frank BrinkleyPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Japan, Its History, Arts and Literature
Author: Frank BrinkleyThe Emperor's Private Paradise
Author: Nancy Zeng BerlinerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This exhibition catalogue offers a magnificent, thorough study of 90 objects from the Qianlong Garden in Beijing's Forbidden City. Objects include wall paintings, furniture, architectural fittings, ceramics, and stone. They have been on public view infrequently and only in the Qianlong Garden, which is now undergoing a 20-year restoration under the lead of the World Monuments Fund and Beijing's Palace Museum. The garden is a two-acre tract consisting of 27 buildings, their contents, and a mature landscape--the whole complex is characterized as a "multi-layered artwork." Following an introduction by Elliott (Harvard), Berliner (Peabody Essex Museum) presents the general characteristics of scholar and emperor gardens, and the early gardens of Emperor Qianlong, along with a minute analysis of the Qianlong Garden. Yuan Hongqi (Palace Museum), Liu Chang (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing), and Henry Tzu Ng (World Monuments Fund) treat the garden's subsequent history. Interlaced throughout are superb illustrations of the objects and the garden, followed by a catalogue with small illustrations of objects, and their curatorial data; a chronology; a comparative, annotated time line; maps; glossary; and Chinese pronunciation guide. This must-buy publication is a model of sensitive scholarship that places the garden and its objects in an understandable, universal context. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by D. K. Haworth.
The History of Modern Painting
Author: Richard MutherPublisher:
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Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The Arts in Early England
Author: Gerard Baldwin BrownPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The author died while several chapters of v. 6 were obviously unfinished, but no attempt was made to complete the subject-matter. The work was to have been concluded with a 7th volume discussing the illuminated manuscripts of the period.
中華名畫
Author: E. A. StrehlneekPublisher:
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Category : Art objects, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Terry's Guide to Cuba
Author: Thomas Philip TerryPublisher:
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Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Terry's Guide to the Japanese Empire, Including Korea and Formosa, with Chapters on Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the Chief Ocean Routes to Japan
Author: Thomas Philip TerryPublisher:
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
Book Description
中國肖生玉雕
Author: 敏求精舍 (Hong Kong, China)Publisher:
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Category : Animal sculpture
Languages : zh-CN
Pages : 334
Book Description
本书展览以肖生玉雕为题, 展出181项作品, 年代由新石器时代至清代. 动物种类有传说中的瑞兽, 也有描写自然界的鸟, 鱼, 虫.
Type & Typo
Author: The Printed Image
Author: Matthi ForrerPublisher: Walther Konig
ISBN: 9783960982562
Category : Block books, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Japanese coloured woodcut print is one of the few art genres from the Far East that is, thanks to Japonisme, familiar and popular in Europe. It is still collected and traded to this day. The Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst in Cologne has trawled through its woodcut repository and viewed its collection of Japanese coloured woodblock prints and books as a whole for the first time. The result is a selection of the most unusual and valuable pieces, which are presented in a special large-scale exhibition and this catalogue. Alongside the primitive, hand-coloured pieces from the end of the 17th century, there are coloured woodblock prints from the worlds of entertainment and the Kabuki theatre ( ukiyo-e ) of the 18th and 19th centuries; depictions of historical warriors and heroes; landscape prints from the famous series by Hokusai and Hiroshige; depictions of flowers, birds, insects and fish; precious privately commissioned calendar prints ( surimono ); quirky depictions of foreigners from Nagasaki; a comprehensive collection of prints from the Meiji period with illustrations of the Sino-Japanese War; and modern Shin-hanga (new woodcut prints) from the Taisho period onwards. A collection of important books complements this broad range of prints, including rare first editions of Hokusai_s manga as well as instructional books for hobby painters, which give an introduction to the stylistic peculiarities of various painting schools. The diversity and the richness of this extensive collection reveals the beauty and importance of the Japanese woodblock print as never before.