Handy and informative, this accessible guide depicts the famous ensembles and buildings of Cologne while leading the way to little-known treasures, inner courts, and gardens. Each architectural entry is buttressed by informative text, up-to-date photographs, and ground plans of the building. The layout according to tours of city districts, maps, and detailed indices make orientation easy, even for strangers to the city. This bilingual edition includes English and German.

Koeln/Cologne: An Architectural Guide (Architectural Guides)

Reference

Kierdorf, Alexander

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH

Hannover: Architectural Guide (Architectural Guides)

Arts & Photography

Reimer Verlag

Photography & Video

The Architectural Guides from the tried and trusted Reimer Verlag series are readable, clearly set out and in a handy format. For all their brevity, the texts are informative and critical, a considerable achievement. These guides do not only line out the more or less famous ensembles, places, and buildings but also lead the way to little-known treasures, details, inner courts and gardens. The buildings are documented with informative texts, up-to-date photos, and ground plans. The layout according to tours of city districts, maps and detailed indices make orientation easy, even for strangers to the city.

München: Architectural Guide (Architectural Guides)

<p>Bizen ceramics were, together with Shigaraki wares, the first Japanese ceramics to be introduced in the tea ceremony. This research shows through the study of ceramics from the Bizen kilns that aesthetization processes of ceramic took place in Japan back in the Momoyama period (1573-1615). Such process is explained socio-historically through the political relevance of the Bizen daimyo.</p>

The Rise of Bizen Ceramics in the Momoyama Period: 1573-1615 (Hammonds Foundation Monograph Series on Asian Art)

Navarro, Maria Roman

History & Criticism

Wu Hufan was one of the most important experts of Chinese art in the early 20th century. He inscribed famous calligraphy and paintings with art commentaries (colophons). This book presents his biography and a critical discussion of his annotations on art in English language for the first time.

Wu Hufan: A Twentieth Century Art Connoisseur in Shanghai

Von Spee, Clarissa

This pioneering study investigates painting as performance—or the execution of paintings in the presence of an audience—in Japan during the period between the 16th and 19th centuries. The various socioeconomic settings and functions of this artistic practice are analyzed, from elite entertainments and expressions of community to alternative artistic identities and public relations events. The shared experience between artist and observer is considered as well as the resultant artwork, contending that the concept of painting as performance depends on the circumstances of execution and the social relations between those involved. Representing the first attempt at confronting this subject in a methodical manner, it draws from copious research in the fields of Japanese history, art history, and visual cultures studies, highlighting this unique process as a phenomenon worthy of enquiry.

Performing / Painting in Tokugawa Japan (Hammonds Foundation Monograph Series on Asien Art)

Hofmann, Alexander

In this detailed book, media art experts discuss the challenges and issues installation art presents to curators and restorers. It provides a practical and theoretical introduction to the preservation of media art installations as well as four case studies from artists at the Inter Media Art Institute Foundation.

Media Art Installations: Preservation and Presentation: Materializing the Ephemeral

Buschmann, Renate

Caianiello, Tiziana

Closely examining staged images of Japanese femininity, this study centers on the mid-Meiji souvenir photography of Kusakabe Kimbei, approaching from the artist’s perspective while referencing his culture’s visual and traditional practices. The analysis attempts to construe visual material in its original context using various points of departure, including the sociocultural significance of the staged models, the visual display of the photographic models in relation to the visibility problem of Japanese women in Meiji visual media, and Kimbei’s visual encodings of Japanese femininity. By means of contextualized analysis, this survey seeks to illuminate the intricate structure of significations embedded on the visual plane, ultimately demonstrating how Kimbei’s female images present a locus of multilayered meanings.

Staging Desires: Japanese Femininity in Kusakabe Kimbei's Nineteenth Century Souvenir Photography

Wakita, Mio

Individual Artists

Passions of an Elegant Lady: Asian Textiles of the Hammonds Collection (English and German Edition)

Alan Kennedy

Clarissa von Spee

Walter Bruno Brix

Osaki Hachimangu (1607), located in Sendai, Japan, is one of only a handful of surviving buildings from the Momoyama period (1568–1615). The shrine is a rare example of “lacquered architecture”—an architectural type characterized by a shiny, black coat made of refined tree sap and evocative of transitory splendor and cyclical renewal. The shrine’s sponsor, the warlord Date Masamune, was one of the last independent feudal lords of his time and remains famous for dispatching diplomatic missions to Mexico, Spain, and Rome. Although his ambitions to become a ruler of Northern Japan were frustrated, his shrine stands as a lasting testament to the political struggles he faced, his global aspirations, and the cultural cloak by which he sought to advance these objectives.

Osaki Hachimangu: Architecture, Materiality, and Samurai Power

History

Schweizer, Anton

Asia

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