Kyosai: Le bestiaire extraordinaire Kawanabe Kyôsai (1831-1889) est un artiste virtuose, considéré en son temps comme le successeur de Hokusai, qui réalisa en peu de temps une oeuvre exceptionnelle et prolifique : plus de 1 000 ... |
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| Textiles of Indonesia Drawn from one of the world's leading textile collections, this magnificently presented array of traditional weavings from the Indonesian archipelago provides a unique window into the region's cul ... |
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| Tadjikistan: Au pays def fleuves d'or Organisé en grandes périodes chronologiques, de la préhistoire à l'arrivée de l'islam, ce catalogue retrace l'histoire du Tadjikistan situé au coeur des réseaux d'échanges depuis la plus h ... |
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Brown, Azby:
The Genius of Japanese Carpentry - paperback This book tells the story of the 1200-year-old Yakushiji monastery in Nara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the dedicated modern-day craftsmen who are working to restore what has been lost to th ... |
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| La Chine: China-Sammlung Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinett Als zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts die legendäre Kunstsammlung August des Starken entstand, herrschte in Europa eine enthusiastische China-Begeisterung. Neben heute weltberühmten Werken der Porz ... |
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| Lemin, Chen:
Le dernier lettré Chen Lemin ist einer jener höchst originellen chinesischen Intellektuellen, die mit einem Bein in der chinesischen Tradition und mit dem anderen in der westlichen Moderne standen. Er war sowohl v ... |
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Van Beurden, Sarah:
Congo en vitirne L'Institut des Musées nationaux du Zaïre/Congo (RDC) et le Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (Tervuren, Belgique) ont défini et promu la culture et l'art congolais. Dans cet ouvrage (paru pré ... |
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| L'arc et le sabre Des reproductions d'estampes et de photographies du musée Guimet ayant pour sujet les samouraïs japonais. A partir de cette iconographie, sont examinées la diversité et la complexité de leur ... |
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| Mason, Darielle:
Storied Stone A behind-the-scenes history of the sixteenth-century South Indian temple hall installation in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. |
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Remondino, Dominik; Sevette, Jean-Baptiste:
The Bari Statuary of the Upper Nile This book presents the roughly 63 statues of the Bari tribe of South Sudan that are known today and provides both historical context and current scholarship for these works, their use and their st ... |
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| Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Medieval Egyptian Tombs Exploring prize textiles known as tiraz, whose meaning and materiality illuminate the interwoven communities of the medieval Islamic world |
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| La part de l'ombre: Sculptures du Congo Katalog der Ausstellung über Bandundu, eine Region im Südwesten der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, in der mehrere Völker leben, die Yaka, die Yanzi, die Buma, die Sakata oder auch die Mbala. Di ... |
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Hirschbichler, Michael:
Mythische Konstruktionen Michael Hirschbichler untersucht den kulturellen Kosmos verschiedener Kulturen Papua-Neuguineas in detaillierten Analysen und mit einem multiperspektivischen Ansatz. Dieser verbindet Kultur- und S ... |
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| Arts of Fighting in Asia Catalogue devoted to the representations of Asian martial arts in ancient and contemporary iconographic works as well as in the cinema. From India to China, via Japan and South-East Asia, the appr ... |
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| Al Homoud & Nasiri: The Art Library Lulwah Al Homoud and Rafa Nasiri illustrate the vitality and continuous renewal of the art of script and calligraphy in the Arab world. The two artists are from different generations, and their wo ... |
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Thompson, Sarah E.:
Genji: The Prince and the Parodies How artists have interpreted the intrigues and love stories of The Tale of Genji, one of the world's oldest novels |
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| Behrens-Abouseif, Doris:
Metalwork from the Arab World This volume presents vessels, fittings and other objects made in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Yemen from the early Islamic period through to the end of the Ottoman era in the 19th century. The pieces in ... |
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| Granser: 88 Stones 88 stones collected by Peter Granser and his wife Beatrice Theil near a small hut in the village of Kamiyama on the island of Shikoku. Shikoku is famous for the Ohenro, a pilgrimage path connectin ... |
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A Botany of Violence From germ theory to plantation logic, this book charts the 528-year legacy of global, colonial powers in the violent search for the elusive Cinchona plant of South America, the only known natural ... |
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| Canepa, Teresa; Butler, Katharine:
Leaping the Dragon Gate: 17th-Century Chinese Porcelain This book celebrates the most important collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain in the world, assembled by the distinguished British diplomat Sir Michael Butler. His passion for porcelain is ... |
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| Paterson, Robert K.:
Mokomokai: Tattooed History The elaborate facial markings (ta moko) of the Maori are well-known, but less so is the unique process of preserving the tattooed heads of both enemies and loved ones. This work presents many sour ... |
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Konfuzius: Das Buch von Maß und Mitte Wie ist ein gutes und sinnvolles Leben möglich? Das dem Konfuzius zugeschriebene Buch "Zhongyong" - eines der vier grundlegenden Werke des Konfuzianismus - gibt hierzu eine Antwort: Indem man mit ... |
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| Return Journey: Art of the Americas in Spain "Return Journey: Art of the Americas in Spain" recounts a little known phenomenon: the fact that following the conquest of Latin America and until its independence, more works of art arrived in Sp ... |
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| RA Collection V: Chinese Enamelled Copper The fifth volume of The RA Collection is the first in the series to depart from ceramic to other fields of cross-cultural art. "The RA Collection of Chinese Enamelled Copper: A Collector's Vision" ... |
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Iran: Five Millennia of Art and Culture A fascinating cultural landscape developed in Iran between deserts, mountain ranges and bodies of water. 360 objects from the time of the first advanced civilisations of the 3rd millennium BC to t ... |
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