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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: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Lu Shengzhong: The Book of Humanity by Lu Shengzhong Synopsis The Chinese folk art of paper-cutting is ancient, but Lu Shengzhong's artistic practice, which employs it, is thoroughly modern. His signature Little Red Figure, a slightly devious-looking splayed personage, is as distinctive as a Haring graffiti man... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wisdom and Compassion the Sacred Art of Tibet, Expanded Edition by Marylin M Rhie Synopsis Acclaimed as the most important book ever published on Tibetan painting and sculpture, Wisdom and Compassion illustrates, explains, and celebrates 241 of the finest examples of Tibetan sacred art of the 9th to 12th centuries. Renowned experts Marylin M... (read more) List Price $34.98 Your price: $23.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road (Conservation and Cultural Heritage) by Roderick Whitfield Publisher Comments The Mogao grottoes in China, situated near the oasis town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant sites of Buddhist art. In some five hundred caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi desert are... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Buddhist Art and Architecture (World of Art) by Robert E Fisher Synopsis Buddhism is the single common thread uniting the Asian world, from India to South-East Asia and through Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan. To guide and inspire believers, innumerable symbols and images were made, beginning in India in the 3rd... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Post-Tsunami Art: Emerging Artists from South-East Asia by Giovanni (edt) Marella Publisher Comments It seems that the destiny of South East Asia, at least as far as art is concerned, is inversely proportional to that of the international economic situation and to the consequent ability to react when faced with catastrophe. In 2004, at the height of a... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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The Art of East Asia by Gabriel Fahr Becker Synopsis This is an introduction to the representational culture of Japan, China, Korea and Southeast Asia. From architecture - sacred and secular, to painting, crafts and dance these volumes piece together a colourful mosaic of human expression.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $27.95 Used - Hardcover
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Art & Architecture of Cambodia (World of Art) by Helen Ibbits Jessup Publisher Comments An essential, authoritative and up-to-date introduction to Cambodian art, and a vivid glimpse into a world that continues to challenge the most intrepid visitor.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Arts and Crafts of Turkestan by Johannes Kalter Synopsis Discusses the clothing, jewelry, carpets, and other decorative arts of the people of the Turkestan region and describes the people's way of life.... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Arts of China, Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded by Michael Sullivan Publisher Comments For the fifth edition of his internationally renowned The Arts of China, Michael Sullivan has thoroughly revised and expanded every chapter of this classic history of Chinese art from the Neolithic period to the present day. This new edition reflects the... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Art of Tantra (World of Art) by Philip Rawson Synopsis Shares tantric secrets for deepening relationships, intimacy, and passion, and discusses harmony, communication, and healing.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Art of Southeast Asia by Maud Girard Geslan Publisher Comments Southeast Asia, that immense region stretching from India to the Far East, encompasses Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar -- the former Burma -- and Thailand), Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. This volume is the first in several decades... (read more) List Price $195.00 Your price: $145.00 Used - Hardcover
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Sacred Art of Tibet by Tarthang Tulku Publisher Comments A survey of Tibetan sculpture and painting, this book examines sacred art, its philosophical foundations, and its role in Tibetan Buddhist meditation. Forty full-page black and white photographs.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Poetry of Ink: The Korean Literati Tradition 1392-1910 by Peirre Cambon Publisher Comments The Poetry of Ink: The Korean Literati Trad ition 1392-1910 is the catalogue of the Spring 2005 exhibition of Korean literati painting and calligraphy at the Mus, e Guimet, the French Nation al Asian Art Museum, in Paris. Described by TI ME Asia as A... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Icons of Art: The Collections of the National Museum of Indonesia by John N Miksic Publisher Comments The Indonesian National Museum is one of the oldest museums in Asia. Its collections span an immense range in time and space, covering millions of years of natural and human history and thousands of islands scattered between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $31.95 Used - Hardcover
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Masterpieces of Chinese Art by Rhonda Cooper Publisher Comments Artistic masterpieces of Chinese civilization from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century, encompassing sculpture, paintings, drawings and pottery.... (read more) List Price $16.98 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito by Alinari 24 Ore Synopsis Shinjo Ito (1906-1989), founder of the Shinnyo-en stream of Buddhism, was one of Japan's most versatile Buddhist sculptors and an accomplished artist in fields as diverse as calligraphy and photography. Throughout his life, he created countless artworks... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: Volumes 1 and 2: An Outline History of East Asiatic Design (Stone Bridge Classics) by Ernest F Fenollosa Publisher Comments Still regarded as a monumental survey of Eastern art, this comprehensive volume was intended for art collectors and general readers as well as travelers and scholars. It covers China and Korea in addition to Japan, and places a special emphasis on... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art by Wu Hung Publisher Comments When it is completed in 2009 the Three Gorges Dam, a hydroelectric dam which spans the Yangzi River in China, will generate enough electricity to power four cities the size of Los Angeles. Despite the fact that it will... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper
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