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The Oriental World by Jeannine Auboyer; Roger Goepper
Call Number: N7260 .A82
Publication Date: 1967
Contents include the history, influences, and cultural development of India and the South East region of Asia.
Angkor Wat by Eleanor Mannikka
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 0824817206
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Bringing the principles of 12th-century Khmer temple architecture to the modern world, this text finds that the key to understanding the temple lies in the measurement system used by its original builders. By translating meters into cubits, the author uncovered a highly sophisticated system of philosophical and religious principles expressed in the temple measurements themselves. The measurements connect the temple to the stars and the cosmos, bridge the gap between human and divine realms, help unite the king and his deity - in short, they define how time, space, kingship and divinity exist inseparably from each other.
Japan Envisions the West by Yukiko Shirahara (Editor)
Call Number: Oversize N7352 .J362 2007
ISBN: 9780295987408
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
This extraordinary book features significant works of art from the Kobe City Museum, whose collection focuses on Western-style Japanese art created between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Japan Envisions the West considers how Japan encountered the West and learned about and adopted their arts, culture, and science, and how the West discovered Japanese arts and culture.
Japanese Ink Painting : the art of sumi-e by Naomi Okamoto
Call Number: ND2462 .O3813 1995
ISBN: 9780806908335
Publication Date: 1996-12-31
This study of Japanese ink painting is as much about philosophy and poetry as it is about putting brush to paper. Artisan Okamoto clearly describes the unique materials and techniques involved, and she beautifully illustrates each lesson. The highly readable writing style is personal, poetic, and inspiring.
Contemporary Chinese Art : A Critical History by Paul Gladston
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781780232690
Publication Date: 2014-09-15
Since the confirmation of Deng Xiaoping's policy of Opening and Reform in 1978, the People's Republic of China has undergone a liberalization of culture that has led to the production of numerous forms of avant-garde, experimental, and museum-based art. With a fast-growing international market and a thriving artistic community, contemporary Chinese art is riding a wave of prosperity, though issues of censorship still abound. Shedding light on the current art scene, Paul Gladston's Contemporary Chinese Art puts China's recent artistic output into the context of the wider cultural, economic, and political conditions that surround it. Providing a critical mapping of ideas and practices that have shaped the development of Chinese art, Gladston shows how these combine to bind it to the structure of power and state both within and outside of China. Focusing principally on art produced by artists from mainland China--including painting, film, video, photography, and performance--he also discusses art created in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and diasporic communities.
Why Asia? by Alice Yang (Editor); Jonathan S. Hay; Mimi Young
Call Number: N7260 .Y36 1997
ISBN: 0814735797
Publication Date: 1998-03-01
Why Asia? Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art is a ground-breaking investigation into two overlapping and rapidly emerging areas in contemporary art. Extricating them from their current confusion under a generic "Asian" label, Yang reveals the specificity of each. The book consists of lucid discussions on individual artists, exhibitions and theoretical issues. With over sixty illustrations it serves to introduce the current landscape of Asian and Asian American art, with essays on art in China, Taiwan and North America, as well as individual essays on leading artists such as Rirkrit Tiravanija, Xu Bing and Michael Joo. Above all, Yang explores the challenges that contemporary Asian and Asian American art poses to artists, critics, curators and viewers alike.

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