Light of Asia: Buddha Sakyamuni in Asian Art

Pratapadiya Pal

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Illustrated throughout. Bound in the publisher's original black cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the spine.

Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings

Arts & Photography

Richard J. Campbell

Victor Carlson

History & Criticism

Chronicles the 20th-century shin-hanga ("new prints") movement of Japanese woodblock printing, based on an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art between January and June 1996. Includes many high-quality color and b&amp;w illustrations, and essays on specific images, the cultural and historical context of the images, and the history of critical evaluation of shin-hanga , plus an exhibition checklist. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Shin-Hanga: New Prints in Modern Japan

Kendall H. Brown

Hollis Goodall-Cristante

The giving of gifts both delights the recipient and pleases the giver. Practiced in all societies, gift exchange has a history as long as humanity. This gloriously illustrated catalogue is the first investigation of gift-giving and its impact on the development of art in the Islamic world. Presenting some 240 rare and costly works of art associated with gift exchanges among the courts of Islam, Byzantium, western Europe, and eastern Asia, the book provides a wide-ranging view of Islamic art and culture from the 8th through the 19th century. 
At courts across the Islamic world, gift-giving often served as a nexus of art and diplomacy, religion, and interpersonal relations. The book examines the complex interplay between artistic production and gift-based patronage through numerous examples of deluxe, aesthetically pleasing objects either commissioned or repurposed as gifts. Tracing the unique histories of selected artworks, the book also explores how the exchange of luxury objects played a central role in the circulation, emulation, and assimilation of artistic forms within and beyond the Islamic world.

Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts

Contested Visions offers a comparative view of the two principal viceroyalties of Spanish America: Mexico and Peru. Spanning developments from the 15th to the 19th century, this ambitious book looks at the many ways and contexts in which indigenous peoples were represented in art of the early modern period—by colonial artists, European artists, and themselves. More than two hundred works of art, including paintings, sculptures, illustrated books, maps, codices, manuscripts, and other materials such as textiles, keros, and feather works, are reproduced in full-color illustrations, demonstrating the rich variety of these artistic approaches. 
A collection of essays by an international team of distinguished scholars in the field uncovers the different meanings and purposes behind these depictions of native populations of the Americas. These experts explore the role of the visual arts in negotiating a sense of place in late pre-Columbian and colonial Latin America. They address a range of important topics, such as the construct of the Indian as a good Christian; how Amerindians drew on their pre-Columbian past to stake out a place within the Spanish body politic; their participation in festive rites; and their role as artists. Lavishly illustrated, this ambitious book provides a compelling and original framework by which to understand the intersection of vision and power in the Spanish colonial world.

Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World

Women Artists, 1550-1950

Linda Nochlin

Ann Sutherland Harris

Japanese Painting of the Edo Period: Masterpieces from the Shin'enkan Collection

Wrapped in glory: Figurative quilts & bedcovers, 1700-1900

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Fox, Sandi

Crafts & Hobbies

American Impressionist Childe Hassam. flag paintings created during WW I

Flag Paintings of Childe Hassam

Fort, Ilene Susan

Hassam, Childe

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Rodin in His Time: The Cantor Gifts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

[Rodin, Auguste] Levkoff, Mary L.

Sculpture

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