Interrogates the relationship between different kinds of modern art and different kinds of cultural contexts in Asian and Pacific countries. Thirteen essays examine how the modern is formed by artists in relation to other traditions and practices, Western or folk, the audience a…
Despite the censorship of dissident material during the decade between the Manchurian Incident of 1931 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, a number of photographers across Japan produced a versatile body of Surrealist work. In a pioneering study of their practice, Jelen…
Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players. However, Bunraku lacks scholarship dedicated to translating not only the language …
"This comprehensive book explores the spectacular art of the first millennium B.C. from the Near East to Western Europe. This was the world of Odysseus, in which trade proliferated with Phoenician merchants; of King Midas, whose tomb was adorned with treasures; and of the Bible,…
"This comprehensive book explores the spectacular art of the first millennium B.C. from the Near East to Western Europe. This was the world of Odysseus, in which trade proliferated with Phoenician merchants; of King Midas, whose tomb was adorned with treasures; and of the Bible,…
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This monograph sets out to write new transnational South Asian art histories - to make visible histories of artworks that remain marginalised within the discipline of art history. However, this is done through a deliberate 'productive failure' - specifically, by not upholding th…
"Combining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture. In Collecting Objects / Excluding People, Lenore Metrick-Chen demonstrations an unknown impact of Chinese immigration upon nineteenth-century American art…
"During the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the censorious attitude that characterized China's post-1989 official response to contemporary art gave way to a new market-driven, culture industry valuation of art. Experimental artists who once struggled against state regulati…
Katsushika Hokusai ist seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts der in der westlichen Welt wohl bekannteste japanische Künstler. Als künstlerischer Ausdruck einer isolierten Kultur hatten die Werke Hokusais großen Einfluss auf impressionistische sowie post-impressionistische Maler. Vince…
During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended. In these precarious intervals, powerful images emerge. This book asks: what happens to art0during a state of emergency? Investigating the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and political history, Terracciano …
"In Zen Buddhism, the concept of freedom is of profound importance. And yet, until now there has been no in-depth study of the manifestation of this liberated attitude in the lives and artwork of Edo period Zen monk-painters. This book explores the playfulness and free-spirited …
Vom 12. Oktober 2005 bis zum 9. Januar 2006 wird im MuséeGuimet in Paris eine außergewöhnliche Ausstellung mit dem Titel"Kunstschätze aus Vietnam ... Die Champa-Skulptur" stattfinden. Dieses Ereignis wird erstmalig die Sammlungen des französischenMusée Guimet, der Réunion des Mu…