Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Eternal Transience, Enlightened Wisdom: Masterpieces of Buddhist Art
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A collection of sixth- to nineteenth-century Tibetan Buddhist bronze statues from Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, and Mongolia. Eternal Transience, Enlight...
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Chinese Music in Print: From the Great Sage to the Lady Literata
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /A collection of rare musical artifacts from the University of Hong Kong's Fung Ping Shan Library. Chinese Music in Print is grounded in a desire to...
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Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00Original price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00Current price $53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /With new photography of extraordinarily rare works of art, this pioneering study features discoveries and research essential to understanding the o...
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Himalayan Art in 108 Objects
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The first fully-illustrated introductory book about the story of Himalayan art and culture Published as part of the Rubin Museum's Project Himalay...
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A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /A lively tour through experimental Chinese photography from the early 1990s to today The past thirty years were dynamic, transformative decades in...
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Dawn of Happiness
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Carpet making has developed in Uzbekistan since ancient times as a form of artistic craftsmanship.Sitora Pardabayeva, a 3rd-level student of the Fa...
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Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Charting Japan's unique engagement with modernity during the Meiji era, through an extraordinary selection of objects in American collections This...
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Hokusai's Landscapes: The Complete Series
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The first book to focus exclusively on Hokusai’s landscapes, by one of the world’s leading ukiyo-e specialists The best known of all Japanese art...
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Cultivated Stones: Chinese Scholars' Rocks from the Kemin Hu Collection
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The original readymade: a pioneering volume on the ancient tradition of the scholar's rockLose yourself in the endlessly rich variety of Chinese sc...
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Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation Ink Collection
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00Original price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00Current price $60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /The ongoing legacy of the East Asian ink tradition in contemporary artIncluding the work of more than 50 contemporary artists--from Xu Bing and Lin...
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Global Lives of Objects: Celebrating 100 Years of the National Museum of Asian Art
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A richly illustrated volume which features 33 short essays, each taking a single object as a starting point to unravel complex, interconnected, glo...
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Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company offi...
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Chiura Obata: An American Modern
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Chiura Obata (1885-1975) was one of the most significant Japanese American artists working on the West Coast in the last century. Born in Okayama, ...
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China: The New Contemporary Painting
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00Original price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00Current price $53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /China: The New Contemporary Painting presents the works of 18 artists working in the medium today. Some of the paintings shown in this volume provi...
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Supermarket of the Dead: Burnt Offerings in China and the Cult of Globalised Consumption
PaperbackOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /In a longstanding Chinese folk custom, paper replicas of money and goods are ritually burned as offerings to win the favor of ancestors, gods and s...
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Mahjong: Art, Film, and Change in China
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Published on the occasion of the North American premiere of Mahjong, a landmark exhibition of contemporary Chinese art from the world-renowned coll...
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Kakemono: Five Centuries of Japanese Painting: The Perino Collection
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A comprehensive survey of kakemono, the classical Japanese art of the wall scrollSpanning Japanese painting from the 16th to the 19th centuries, th...
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Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Treasures Rediscovered focuses on a group of 22 stone devotional objects and architectural fragments that collectively represent major developments...
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Chinese Painting from No Name to Abstraction: Collection Ralf Laier
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00Original price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00Current price $57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /On the birth of contemporary art in ChinaThe No Name and the Beijing abstractionists are at the heart of Ralf Laier's collection, presented here fo...
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Revealing Krishna: Essays on the History, Context, and Conservation of Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan from Phnom Da
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Centered on the early Cambodian masterpiece Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan in the Cleveland Museum of Art, seven essays present new research and d...
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Life and Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Life and Dreams is the first extensive catalog of works by Chinese artists represented in the Walther Collection. Showing artworks by 44 groundbrea...
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