East Asian Books: China, Japan, Tibet, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Java (Catalogue)

Arts & Photography

McArthur, Meher

Miller, Bob

Fogg, Sam

Hsuan, Wei Chen

History & Criticism

Paul Holberton Publishing

Manuscripts from the Himalayas and the Indian Subcontinent

Ethiopia has often attracted attention because of its unique position as an ancient Christian culture far into Africa. Many people have been fascinated by the brilliant colours and childlike directness of traditional Ethiopian art.Little attention has been given, however, to the great art periods the culture has witnessed in the past. The fifteenth century saw a magnificent flowering of painting in the highlands of central and northern Ethiopia – in paintings on panel and above all in manuscripts.This book features an unparallelled collection of Ethiopian Christian artefacts, mostly fifteenth-century manuscripts and icons and metalwork but also some work from the two succeeding centuries.

Ethiopian Art (Sam Fogg)

Hosking, David

`Where have they come from? Where did you find them?' These are some of the first questions we hear when people see medieval works of art like those assembled in this catalogue. Art from this period has been collected for at least 200 years, yet there is a perception that if it is not locked away in a monastery it has found its home in a museum long ago. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is the richness and variety of what still lies unclaimed by history that makes this material so interesting. The canon of what in medieval art is considered excellent was established long ago. Recent decades have witnessed a vigourous re-evaluation of this legacy and some of its keystones have begun to loosen. For example, the pre-eminence of Italian painting over that of Northern Europe is being questioned, and classes of objects once treated as peripheral, like stained glass, are moving back to centre stage. Works of art we could not see or knew nothing about are becoming visible, and it is exciting to reveal items to a wider public in this album.

An Album of Medieval Art

Paul Holberton Pub

<p>Ranging from paintings and sculpture to stained glass, manuscripts and caskets, many of the objects presented here are of absolute rarity, some previously unpublished and - until recently - unknown. </p>
<p> Of particular interest are a recently discovered Anglo-Saxon Chrismatory, the first significant piece of its kind to come to light in well over a century; a walnut casket painted with illustrations of the Prise d'Orange, a unique piece dating from the thirteenth century and a miracle of survival; the beautiful, ninth-century Byzantine silk samite of confronting birds; and a panel of The Dream of Joseph, a fragment of twelfth-century stained glass from the Abbey of St. Denis - considered one of the most important of all monuments of medieval art.</p>

Art of the Middle Ages