African Gods: Contemporary Rituals & Beliefs

Evocative photographs of spiritual practices and mystic ritual reveal the legacy of voodoo in contemporary Africa. Daniel Laine presents a vivid photographic portrayal of these men and women as they perform exorcisms, dances, and other rituals of African my...

Ming Furniture: In the Light of Chinese Architecture

Sarah Handler

An ideal commingling of exquisite and often rare materials, perfection in craftsmanship and exceptional purity of line are what place Ming design, particularly in furniture, at the zenith of Chinese art. MING FURNITURE IN THE LIGHT OF CHINESE ARCHITECTURE i...

Bhutan

"Anstatt unsere Anstrengungen auf das Bruttosozialprodukt zu konzentrieren, wollen wir nach Bruttosozialglück streben. (...) Unsere Idee von Fortschritt ist geprägt von den Auffassungen und Werten unseres Glaubens, an dem wir seit über tausend Jahren festha...

Spirit Country

Jennifer Isaacs has been a close observer of the artistic renaissance across Aboriginal Australia since it began in the early 1970s. In Spirit Country she outlines the forces that propelled the movement's initial upsurge and seeks the sources of its continu...

Kamasutra

Sandhya Mulchandani

Niemand wird bezweifeln, dass das aus Indien stammende Kamasutra die wohl berühmteste Liebeslehre aller Zeiten ist. Das Buch erschien um 1880 erstmals in Europa. Bis heute gehört es zu den bedeutendsten Schätzen der indischen Kultur und ist nach wie vor ein...

Art and Power in the Central African Savanna: Luba, Songye, Chokwe, Luluwa

Constantine Petridis

Revealing the powers immanent in works that the West long regarded only as exotic or abstract, Constantine Petridis looks beneath the surface of the arts of the Luba, Songye, Chokwe and Luluwa peoples to find, literally embedded in sculpture, the forces tha...