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Reading Asian Art and Artifacts

Author : Paul Nietupski
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611460727
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Reading Asian Art and Artifacts written by Paul Nietupski and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with the understanding that, in addition to its aesthetic qualities, Asian art and material artifacts are expressive of cultural realities and constitute a 'visible language' with messages that can be read, interpreted, and analyzed. Asian art and artifacts are understood in their contexts, as 'windows' into cultures, and as such can be used as a powerful pedagogical tool in many academic disciplines. The book includes essays by scholars of Asian art, philosophy, anthropology, and religion that focus on objects held in ASIANetwork schools. The ASIANetwork collections are reflective of Asian societies, historical and religious environments, political positions, and economic conditions. The art objects and artifacts were discovered sometimes in storage and were sometimes poorly understood and variously described as fine art, curiosities, souvenirs, and markers of events in a school's history. The chapter authors tell the stories of the collections, and the collections themselves tell stories of the collectors. This volume is intended for use in many disciplines, and its interpretive structures are adaptable to other examples of art and artifacts in other colleges, universities, and museums. An online database of some 2000 art objects held in the ASIANetwork schools' collections supplements this book.

Reading Asian Art and Artifacts

Author : Paul Kocot Nietupski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935676409
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book Reading Asian Art and Artifacts written by Paul Kocot Nietupski and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Release of Prisoners and its Impact on Police Agencies and Communities in California is based on a collaborative effort between the COPS Office and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). In October 2010, an executive session comprising police and researchers convened in California. This publication is intended to offer the views of many police leaders about how tomorrow's law enforcement agencies may need to assume a new leadership role, working with other criminal justice agencies as well as social service and private organizations, in solving the problem of high recidivism among persons released from prisons.

Chinese Art: The Impossible Collection

Author : Adrian Cheng
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614288844
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Art: The Impossible Collection written by Adrian Cheng and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While readers will come away from Chinese Art with a nuanced understanding of Chinese culture, the volume is also a work of art in its own right—a must-have collectible for any devotee of Chinese art and culture. Assouline’s Ultimate Collection is an homage to the art of luxury bookmaking—the oversized volume is hand-bound using traditional techniques, with several of the plates hand-tipped on art-quality paper and housed in a luxury silk clamshell.

Adventures in Asian Art

Author : Sue DiCicco
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462918700
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Asian Art written by Sue DiCicco and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ride on a rhino, enter a mandala, or climb Mt. Fuji! Asia is an entire world of wonderful places to go and things to see and do! Exploring other cultures is a favorite classroom activity for teachers and students alike. Now, author Sue DiCicco draws on her background as a writer, illustrator, sculptor, and former Disney animator to take kids on an imaginative tour of China, Japan, Korea, India, and beyond through artifacts on display at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Adventures in Asian Art travels from exhibit to exhibit, inviting kids to picture themselves in a variety of Asian countries as they ride on a rhino, become a samurai, or climb Mt. Fuji! Asia is home to an endless array of wonderful places to go and things to see and do, and through the magic of DiCicco's charming verse narrative, readers join a cartoon mom as she takes her three cartoon children through the museum for an afternoon of nonstop fun and learning. This delightfully illustrated, classroom-friendly book shares a series of fun facts about each of the exhibits and explains the culture, beliefs, and daily life informing these wonderful works of art.

Chinese Art in Detail

Author : Carol Michaelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674023895
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Art in Detail written by Carol Michaelson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the British Museum's extensive collection, this book explores the traditional hierarchy of materials and techniques reaching back as far as the Han Dynasty in the third century BC. In the history and character of the works under scrutiny, this sumptuously illustrated book conveys an understanding of Chinese art in all its great variety.

The China Collectors

Author : Karl E. Meyer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466879297
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The China Collectors written by Karl E. Meyer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent. The principal gatherers are mostly little known and defy invention. They included "foreign devils" who braved desert sandstorms, bandits and local warlords in acquiring significant works. Adventurous curators like Langdon Warner, a forebear of Indiana Jones, argued that the caves of Dunhuang were already threatened by vandals, thereby justifying the removal of frescoes and sculptures. Other Americans include George Kates, an alumnus of Harvard, Oxford and Hollywood, who fell in love with Ming furniture. The Chinese were divided between dealers who profited from the artworks' removal, and scholars who sought to protect their country's patrimony. Duanfang, the greatest Chinese collector of his era, was beheaded in a coup and his splendid bronzes now adorn major museums. Others in this rich tapestry include Charles Lang Freer, an enlightened Detroit entrepreneur, two generations of Rockefellers, and Avery Brundage, the imperious Olympian, and Arthur Sackler, the grand acquisitor. No less important are two museum directors, Cleveland's Sherman Lee and Kansas City's Laurence Sickman, who challenged the East Coast's hegemony. Shareen Blair Brysac and Karl E. Meyer even-handedly consider whether ancient treasures were looted or salvaged, and whether it was morally acceptable to spirit hitherto inaccessible objects westward, where they could be studied and preserved by trained museum personnel. And how should the US and Canada and their museums respond now that China has the means and will to reclaim its missing patrimony?

The Art of Korea

Author : Kumja Paik Kim
Publisher : Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Korea written by Kumja Paik Kim and published by Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more than 100 highlights of the collection, along with detailed commentaries by Kumja Paik Kim

Chinese Art

Author : Patricia Bjaaland Welch
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462906893
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Art written by Patricia Bjaaland Welch and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 630 striking color photos and illustrations this Chinese art guide focuses on the rich tapestry of symbolism which makes up the basis of traditional Chinese art. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery includes detailed commentary and historical background information for the images that continuously reappear in the arts of China, including specific plants and animals, religious beings, mortals and inanimate objects. The book thoroughly illuminates the origins, common usages and diverse applications of popular Chinese symbols in a tone that is both engaging and authoritative. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery is an essential reference for collectors, museum-goers, guides, students and anyone else with a serious interest in the culture and history of China.

Ten Thousand Things

Author : Lothar Ledderose
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691252882
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Ten Thousand Things written by Lothar Ledderose and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized parts Chinese workers in the third century BC created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century AD, Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. As these examples show, throughout history, Chinese artisans have produced works of art in astonishing quantities, and have done so without sacrificing quality, affordability, or speed of manufacture. In this book, Lothar Ledderose takes us on a remarkable tour of Chinese art and culture to explain how artists used complex systems of mass production to assemble extraordinary objects from standardized parts or modules. He reveals how these systems have deep roots in Chinese thought and reflect characteristically Chinese modes of social organization. Combining invaluable aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations, Ten Thousand Things make a profound statement about Chinese art and society.

Asian Art

Author : Michael Kerrigan
Publisher : Flame Tree Illustrated
ISBN 13 : 9781786644770
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Asian Art written by Michael Kerrigan and published by Flame Tree Illustrated. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries, the elegance of Asian art has been a source of fascination and inspiration for artists and art lovers worldwide. This beautifully illustrated book, returning after some time out of print explores the diversity of art and artefacts from around Asia, detailing the subjects, the materials used in their making, and the lives of the artists and artisans who created them.

Chinese Architecture Series

Author : Sicheng Liang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789814416269
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Architecture Series written by Sicheng Liang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases a collection of eight English essays by the renowned architectural historian Liang Sicheng (Liang Ssu-ch'eng, 1901-1972) on the history of Chinese architecture, covering topics such as art and architecture, Buddhist cave sculptures, pagodas, and China's oldest wooden structure--Fo-kuang Ssu. The most prominent of these discoveries are featured in this book.

Metaphor and Meaning

Author : Constance A. Cook
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438498322
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and Meaning written by Constance A. Cook and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Metaphor and Meaning, scholars from China, the United States, and Europe draw on Sarah Allan's groundbreaking application of conceptual metaphor theory to the study of early Chinese philosophy and material culture. Conceptual metaphor theory treats metaphors not just as linguistic expressions but as fundamental structures of thought that define one's conceptual system and perception of reality. To understand another culture's worldview, then, hinges upon identifying the right metaphors, through which it then becomes possible to navigate between shared and unshared experiences. The contributors pursue lines of argument that complement, enhance, or challenge Allan's prior investigations into these root metaphors of early Chinese philosophy, whether by explicitly engaging with conceptual metaphor theory or, more indirectly, by addressing meaning construction in a broader sense. Like Allan's interpretative works, Metaphor and Meaning interrogates both transmitted traditions and newly unearthed archaeological finds to understand how people in early China thought about the cosmos, society, and themselves.

Newsletter, East Asian Art and Archaeology

Author :
Publisher : UM Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Newsletter, East Asian Art and Archaeology written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1977 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Asian Games

Author : Colin Christopher Mackenzie
Publisher : Asia Society Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Asian Games written by Colin Christopher Mackenzie and published by Asia Society Museum. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese Art and Design

Author : Rose Kerr
Publisher : Overlook Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Art and Design written by Rose Kerr and published by Overlook Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores China's past in a new way. It shows how art objects were used in Chinese culture -- in sumptuous burials, in temples, in the elegant mansions of the rich, and the splendid setting of the Imperial Court. It explains the use of porcelain, lacquer, jade, silk and precious metals in the arts of eating and drinking. Looking afresh at the taste of Chinese scholars and western collectors over the centuries, it increases our understanding of the things they loved. Based on recent indepth research into one of the world's greatest collections, this book is of value to anyone interested in knowing more about the heritage of China. The new T. T. Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum uses some of the most beautiful and precious objects in the world to tell the story of one of its most ancient civilisations -- China! Both the gallery and this book are made possible through the generosity of Mr. T. T. Tsui. Book jacket.

Reading Buddhist Art

Author : Meher McArthur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500284285
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Reading Buddhist Art written by Meher McArthur and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A concise, accessible primer to the intricate world of Buddhist art." Publishers Weekly"

Muslims in Amdo Tibetan Society

Author : Marie-Paule Hille
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739175300
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Muslims in Amdo Tibetan Society written by Marie-Paule Hille and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslims in Amdo Tibetan Society: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches offers nine case studies from several academic disciplines. The chapters describe the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity within the Muslim communities of Amdo and illustrate complex social interactions with other Amdo communities. While relations between Han Chinese and Tibetans, and between Han Chinese and Muslims in Qinghai and Gansu, have already attracted scholarly attention, this volume has a special focus on Tibetan-Muslim interactions. These are rarely discussed and if so, then mostly in the contexts of trade relations and conflicts. This volume challenges some established stereotypes of Tibetan-Muslim relations and also highlights new facets of cross-cultural contacts and religious and linguistic influences.