Beauty, Wealth, and Power: Jewels and Ornaments of Asia

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Exquisite Pursuits: Japanese Art in the Harry G.C. Packard Collection

In 1991 the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco formally accessioned twenty-seven unique works of Japanese art spanning 800 years of Japanese culture, from the late 11th through the mid-19th centuries. In this catalogue, each work is presented in its historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts. Photos are augmented by enlarged details and supplemental illustrations for comparison. The collection includes thirteen religious objects from the Heian through Muromachi periods, and fourteen secular objects mainly of the Edo periods. It encompasses culptures, paintings, calligraphy, and scrolls.

Arts & Photography

Woodson, Yoko

Mellott, Richard L.

Tsuruta, Kazuhiro

History & Criticism

This book highlights the Chinese glass collections of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Dagan, Dr. Alan E. Feen, and Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein. Together these collections provide a rare opportunity to comprehend the range and depth of Chinese work in glass. Through the 103 examples of glass work included in this book the history of Chinese glass artistry comes into focus as never before.

A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections

Brown, Claudia

Rabiner, Donald

Shangraw, Clarence F.

Art of Traditional Chinese Flower Arranging

Huang, Yung-Chuan

Looking at Patronage: Recent Acquisition of Asian Art

Chao Shao-an is especially noted for his talent in depicting birds, flowers, and insects. The renowned living master of the Lingnan school, an early in 20th-century movement to modernize Chinese painting, Chao Shao-an now lives in Hong Kong. The 80 paintings illustrated in this handsome volume include album studies, water buffalo, great bursts of azaleas, landscapes, and a portrait. The works are arranged chronologically within subject category, and represent a personal assessment of his achievements in visual effects, pictorial concepts, and scale. They record the artist's convictions about Chinese painting of the modem age and the Lingnan school.

The Charming Cicada Studio: Masterworks by Chao Shao-An

Chao, Shao-An

Kao, Mayching

Lee, So Kam Ng

Bartholomew, Terese Tse

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Few people are aware that the name Korea is derived from Goryeo of the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392). Under the patronage of the royal court, the aristocracy and the Buddhist elite--whose taste are for luxury and refinement was unprecedented in the history of Korea--spectacular achievements were made in all areas of the arts during this period. This catalogue documents not only the famous Goryeo achievements in ceramics but also lesser known Buddhist paintings, illuminated sutras, sculpture, lacquer, and metal crafts. Drawing from thirty-five contributing institutions, it brings together some of the most exquisite works of Korean art from the tenth to the fourteenth century, including many that have never before traveled to the West. A valuable resource to anyone interested in the classic arts of East Asia.

Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment

History

Kim, Kumja Paik

Asia

Can decorative objects increase one's wealth, happiness, or longevity? Traditionally, many Chinese have believed that they cold- provided they include the appropriate auspicious symbols. In Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, Terese Tse Bartholomew, culminating decades of research, has provided a thorough guide to such symbols. Auspicious symbols in Chinese art are often in the form of rebuses - visual puns. Because many words in Chinese share the same pronunciation, there is a wealth of opportunities for such punning, and over the centuries many rebuses have developed established meanings. Should one give a clock as a gift? Certainly not!@ "To give a clock" songzhong, is a pun for "a last farewell," in other words, for attending a person who is on the edge of death. Why is a pot of philodendrons an appropriate gift for someone opening a new store or restaurant? In America the philodendron serves as a substitute for a Chinese plant name wannianqing, or "ten thousand years green." Such a gi

Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art

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