5,497円 Art Hats in Renaissance City is an anthology of the personal reflections and aspirations of four generations in the new ecostructure in Singapore, from those who help formulate policies to that of the individual artists, who have helped develop and build an exciting arts and cultural scene from s...

654円 Chinese calligraphy is normally regarded as one of the "arts" in the countries where it is practiced. The calligraphy of Chinese characters is an important and appreciated aspect of Chinese culture. Chinese Idioms, also called chengyu, are a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions, most...

11,772円 This collaborative book explores the artistic and aesthetic development of shojo, or girl, manga and discusses the significance of both shojo manga and the concept of shojo, or girl culture. It features contributions from manga critics, educators, and researchers from both manga’s home country of...

785円 Traditional Chinese Painting always gives prominence to its peculiar texture. Landscape painting has been called "China's greatest contribution to the art of the world". In this book, you will enjoy many "viewing stones" - naturally formed boulders, typically limestone from the banks of mountain ...

4,973円 The growth of Shanghai in the late nineteenth century gave rise to an exciting new art world in which a flourishing market in popular art became a highly visible part of the treaty port's commercialized culture. Art Worlds examines the relationship between the city's visual artists and their urba...

131円 The Classic of Poetry contains the oldest chronologically authenticated Chinese poems. Limpid Kenneth wrote five poems in Chinese calligraphy, let you taste the beauty of the Classic of Poetry and the Chinese calligraphy at the same time. Hope you enjoy the Chinese traditional art.

4,230円 Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics ha...

9,285円 The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world’s fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a perceived end to pure Japanese art and a rise in ...

1,500円 Maître incontesté de l’estampe japonaise, Hokusai n’a cessé d’inspirer les artistes occidentaux, en particulier les peintres impressionnistes. Il a traité tous les sujets, profanes et sacrés, et il est aussi célèbre pour ses vues du mont Fuji que pour ses planches érotiques. Complément utile de v...

11,275円 This book explores the relationship between the ongoing urbanization in China and the production of contemporary Chinese art since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Wang provides a detailed analysis of artworks and methodologies of art-making from eight contemporary artists who employ a ...

8,457円 This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old questions of where and when to present the history of Buddhism’s relationship with figural art as an ...

4,814円 We have long recognized that many objects in museums were originally on display in temples, shrines, or monasteries, and were religiously significant to the communities that created and used them. How, though, are such objects to be understood, described, exhibited, and handled now that they are ...