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Exploring North Korean Arts by Koen De Ceuster Publisher Comments Exploring North Korean Arts offers the most ambitious appraisal of the arts in North Korea, from fine art, music and literature to aspects of design such as stamp design and book illustration. Thoroughly researched and handsomely designed, this volume... (read more) Your price: $65.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Buddhist Art and Architecture (World of Art) by Robert E Fisher Publisher Comments To guide and inspire believers, innumerable symbols and images were made, beginning in India in the 3rd century BC. This phenomenally diverse tradition includes not only frescoes, relief carvings, colossal statues, silk embroideries and bronze ritual... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tibetan Art of Healing by Ian Baker Publisher Comments Like an illuminated manuscript, this extraordinarily beautiful book is both an exquisite artwork in itself and an object of profound meditation. It is based on a revered collection, long considered lost, of four-hundred-year-old Tibetan thangkas on the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Point to the East: Explore Stunning Talents in Asia by Victionary Synopsis Never before have so many stunning new talents from the East had such impact and influence on world design as in the past decade. Point to the East showcases some of the most exciting artists and designers working in Asia today whose styles are being... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Korean Contemporary Art by Miki Wick Kim Publisher Comments This unique survey examines the contemporary art scene in Korea, which is one of the most dynamic and least known areas of the contemporary art world. The works of today's Korean artists are rarely found between the pages of any general art book, yet... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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ARTiculations: Undefining Chinese Contemporary Art by Jerome Silbergeld Publisher Comments What does it mean to say that some of the best Chinese contemporary art is made in America, by Americans? Through words and images, this book challenges the artificial and narrowly conceived definitions of Chinese contemporary art that dominate current... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bye-Bye Kitty!!!: Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art by David Elliott Publisher Comments In recent decades Japanese art has achieved immense popularity in the West while being little understood. Critics have focused on the superficiality and infantilism they find prevalent in much of the work, while many Westerners are familiar with the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $25.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives: An Alphabetical Compendium of Antique Legends and Beliefs, as Reflected in the Manners and Customs of the Chinese by Charles Alfred Speed Williams Publisher Comments Describes historical, legendary, and supernatural persons, animals, and objects that recur as symbols in Oriental art and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.04 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives by Charles Al Williams Publisher Comments This standard reference, long familiar to students of Chinese culture, emphasizes the historical, legendary, or supernatural persons, animals and objects as symbols in art and literature. 402 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Red Aside: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection by Actar D Synopsis A stunning presentation of works by contemporary Chinese artists, from the collection of the Swiss diplomat Uli Sigg, one of the worlds most influential collectors of Chinese contemporary art. This book reflects on the current state of art in China today... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader by Melissa (edt) Chiu Publisher Comments In 2008, Asia stormed the citadel of the New Yorkart world when two major museums presented retrospectives of Asian contemporaryartists: Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim Museum and Takashi Murakami at theBrooklyn Museum. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, a... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: An Outline History of East Asiatic Design (Volumes 1 and 2) (v. 1) by Ernest F. Fenollosa Publisher Comments Two volumes of the essential and definitive survey of Chinese and Japanese art in one book.... (read more) List Price $15.16 Your price: $13.45 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Art of Tibet (World of Art) by Robert Fisher Publisher Comments With the spread of Buddhism among Westerners and the controversy over its status, interest in Tibet has never been greater. This mysterious land, now a province of the People's Republic of China, has produced some of the most fascinating and creative art... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Games of Desire by Shirin Neshat Publisher Comments In November 2005, Shirin Neshat, recent winner of the Silver Lion award at the 2009 Venice Biennale, was invited to participate in an art project in Luang Prabang, Laos. While there, she attended a Buddhist ceremony at the Vat That Luang monastery, in... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ideals of Beauty: Asian and American Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries (World of Art) by Julian Raby Publisher Comments The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington comprise the Smithsonian Institution's national museums of Asian art. The Freer Gallery opened to the public in 1923, and the Sackler Gallery welcomed its first visitors in 1987... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Impressions of the East: Treasures of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley by Deborah Rudolph Synopsis Color woodblock prints, early maps of Asia and beyond, and gorgeously detailed scrolls are just some of the highlights in the collection of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Imbedded in the descriptions of the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Scientific Research on the Pictorial Arts of Asia by Paul Jett Synopsis A broad section of papers on paintings, prints and calligraphy stressing the interrelationship between scientific and historical research.... (read more) List Price $120.00 Your price: $44.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Arts of Vietnam by Catherine Noppe Publisher Comments Since the foundation of the Au Lac kingdom three centuries ago - famous for their bronze drums and their magnificent artilleries - until the works of the painters from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Indochina, created in Hanoi in 1925, the arts of Vietnam... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Buddhist Art: An Historical and Cultural Journey by Giles Beguin Publisher Comments o Lavishly illustrated with 650 color images o Features include plans, reconstructions of monuments and their artwork, and a previously unpublished cartography o An historical and cultural tour across the vast continent of Asia, stretching from India... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Buddhas by Nancy Tingley Publisher Comments According to tradition, Shakyamuni Buddha was a prince who attained enlightenment and whose teachings gave birth to Buddhism. Western audiences today recognize certain iconographic elements, such as distended earlobes and monk's robes, as belonging to... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Hardcover
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