Fleuve Congo

Francois Neyt

Francois Neyt legt anläßlich der gleichnamigen Ausstellung im Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, seine neue Publikation vor, die in Ausstattung und Qualität an seine Arbeit über die Songye anschließt: 300 Objekte aus bedeutenden Museen und Privatsammlungen werden...

Khmer Ceramics

Dawn F Rooney

This book is a revealing portrait of Khmer ceramics that were produced under the same cultural direction and period as the better-known wondrous temples and other wordly sculpture of the 1000-year-old Angkorean kingdom. The unique collection of Khmer cerami...

La voie de Tao

Pour la première fois en Europe, une grande exposition est consacrée au taoisme. Non que le taoisme soit un fait nouveau - les premiers textes remontent au IVe siècle avant notre ère -, mais simplement, une meilleure connaissance des textes, due à la diffus...

Tosa Mitsunobu

Melissa Mccormcik

This is the first book-length study to focus on short-story small scrolls (ko-e), one of the most complex but visually appealing forms of early Japanese painting. The most accomplished examples of the genre resulted from the collaboration of the imperial co...

Overmodeled Skulls

Arthur C Aufderheide

About 6000 years B.C. a group of hunter-foragers at Jericho exhumed the cranium of the recent burial of one of their elders. Preparing lime-based plaster, they applied it to the facial aspect of the bare sjull, then sculpted a new face on it (they overmodel...

Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma 1775-1950

This lavishly illustrated catalogue of artworks from Thailand and Burma provides an introduction to one of Asia's richest and least-known artistic traditions. Focusing primarily on decorative and religious objects from the nineteenth century (along with som...