Mahasandana, Choomsri and Tom Chuawiwat

The Life of the Lord Buddha from Thai Mural Painting

Bangkok, Thailand, Asia Books Co, LTD, 1985. Softcover. gold & illustrated wrappers w/ red printing. 85 pgs w/ color illustrations. Text in Thai & English. Bright, wonderfully detailed illustrations; each nicely annotated. VG-. previous owners name to interior cover edge. edge-wear to covers; creasing to edges; rubbing to corners. creasing to spine top & edge. pgs clean & bright.

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Book number: 179480

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: Thai Mural Paintings; Thailand Art ; Thai Mural Paintings, Thailand Art ; ;

Mahler, Jane Gaston

The Westerners Among the Figurines of the T'Ang Dynasty of China

Roma, Instituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1959. Hardcover. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine, color frontispiece, xvi, 204 pp followed by unnumbered pages of bw plates, bw folded map. Contents include: Preface, Introduction, China and the Wester Barbarians, A Study of Chinese Costume in its Relationship to the Figurines, Technical Aspects of the Figurines, Travelers Who Might Have Been Instrumental in Bringing New Art Influences into China, Greco-Roman Background of Buddhist Art, and its Influence Throughout Central Asia, The Tocharians, The Uighurs, The Hu-hsuan Dancers, Bibliography, Chinese Characters, Collections Visited that Were Helpful in the Preparation of this Sutdy, Classification of the Different Types of Figurines Considered in this Study, Classification by Occupation, General Index. VG (light shelfwear to boards, light staining/foxing to block, tear to page XIII, age toning to page edges but text and illustrations are otherwise clear) .

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Book number: 177088

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: General Asian Art ; Chinese Sculpture ; ; General Asian Art

Malm, William P and Alan C Heyman, et al.

Essays on Asian Music and Theater (3 Volumes)

New York, The Performing Arts Program Of The Asia Society, 1972. Softcover. long, white wraps w/ purple, grey and golden jackets. accordian, fold-out pages w/ illustrated inserts. translucent plastic printed wrap. Three volumes with essays on P'an-Sori, Edo Festival Music and Pantomime and Shantung Traditional Music--which includes a wonderful woodcut by Irwin Sheftel. Of 900 Copies, this being hand-numbered 859. VG (ex-museum libris w/ plate to wrap, withdrawn stamp to title pg & pencil written ID to opening pg & discard scribbled ID on plastic wrap. rubbing or small tears to corners & spine ends, creasing to edges. interior clean. closed tear to lower edge of plastic band.) .

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Book number: 183871

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: P'an-Sori, Edo Festival Music, Pantomime and Shantung Traditional Music ; Asian Music and Theater, Asia Society ; ;

March, Benjamin

Some Technical Terms of Chinese Painting

Baltimore, Waverly Press, 1935. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; xiii, 55 pp, (5) pp of bw plates. "The list is not exhaustive--it does not include the special type forms and techniques of the painting of faces and of such individual plants and flowers as the bamboo, plum and orchid, which have their own disciplines. It does not include the terminology of asethetics or any inquiry into the history of either the terms or the ideas, materials and practices they represent. It is the outgrowth of practical inquiry rather than of systematic literary searching". -- Preface. Contents include: Preface -- I. Materials -- II. Forms of paintings -- III. Subjects -- IV. Classification by techniques -- V. Brushwork and composition -- VI. Trees: type forms and special techniques -- VII. Rocks and mountains: type forms and special techniques -- VIII. Water: type forms and special techniques -- IX. Clouds: type forms and special techniques -- X. Figures: type forms and special techniques -- XI. Seals and signatures -- XII. Mounting -- Alphabetical list of terms defined. VG (light shelfwear to boards, light age toning, previous owner's name, inscription and book plate on ffep, pages are otherwise very clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 181829

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: General Asian Art ; Chinese Painting ; ; General Asian Art

Matsubara, Saburo and Terukazu Terukazu

Arts of China: Buddhist Cave Temples, New Researches

Tokyo / Palo Alto, Kodansha International, 1969. Hardcover. oatmeal cloth boards w/ brown printed illustrations & spine printing. 248 pgs w/ color, tipped-in frontis & 218 bw & color illustrations, numerous figures. glossy white & green illustrated dustjacket. publisher's printed slipcase. Ex-libris plate to title page. From the collection of a museum tour guide and South Asian art expert. Ink ghosting to pages from opposing plates/illustrations. Lightly handled. A very nice copy. Slipcase scuffed, edge-worn, rubbed & creased. VG+/VG (some fraying to cloth. dustjacket scuffed & edge-worn.) .

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Book number: 186136

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: Buddhist Cave Temples ; Buddhist Cave Temples ; ;

McDougall, Bonnie S. and Paul Clark

Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with red spine lettering; burgundy dj with bw illustration, mylar cover; xvi, 341 pp. "The essays in this volume constitute an exceptionally broad and inclusive account of Chinese literature and performing arts since 1949."- DJ. Based on papers presented at a workshop held at Harvard University, June 1979. Contents: 1. Folk art as propaganda : the Ynagge movement in Yan'an / David Holm -- 2. Shanghai's "Orphan Island" and the development of modern drama / Edward Gunn -- 3. Critical grounds : the transformation of the May Fourth era / T.D. Huters -- 4. The genie and the lamp : revolutionary Xiangsheng / Perry Link -- 5. Geming Gequ : songs for the education of the masses / Isabel K.F. Wong -- 6. Model opera as model : from Shajiabang to Sagabong / Bell Yung -- 7. From romantic love to class struggle : reflections on the film Liu Sanjie / Wai-fong Loh -- 8. The film industry in the 1970s / Paul Clark -- 9. Making the past serve the present in fiction and drama : from Yan'an forum to the cultural revolution / Robert E. Hegel -- 10. A notable sermon : the subtext of Hao Ran's fiction / Michael Egan -- 11. Contemporary Chinese poetry and its search for an ideal form / Kai-yu Hsu -- 12. Writers and performers, their works, and their audiences in the first three decades / Bonnie S. McDougall. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Fading to dj along spine. Light shelfwear to boards. Pages are otherwise clean.) .

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Book number: 186153

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: General Asian Art ; Chinese Literature and Theater ; ; General Asian Art

Miyahara, Ryusen

Buddhist Paintings: Japanese National Treasures

Tokyo, Japan, Kosei Publishing Co, 1981. Hardcover. Bright green cloth boards with gilt lettering, tan dj with red, black and green lettering, color illustrated. 127 pp, illustrated in bw and color. Cover title also in Japanese. Contents include: Restored Copies of Buddhist Paintings by Miyahara Ryusen; Japanese Buddhist Painting; Original Buddhist Painting; Restored Copies of Buddhist Paintings; Buddhist Paintings by Miyahara Ryusen; Commentary. VG (pages are clean and bright, light foxing spots along block, binding tight) .

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Book number: 187836

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: General Art- Asian ; Japanese Painting; Buddhist Painting ; ; General Art- Asian

Mukerjee, Radhakamal

The Cosmic Art of India: Symbol (Murti), Sentiment (Rasa), and Silence (Yoga)

Bombay, Allied Publishers, 1965. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gold gilt lettering on spne, white and color illustrated dust jacket with brown lettering; xvi, 227 pp. bw illustrations. "The art of India thus is perennial and universal. It represents the collective experience, the spiritual value and aspiration of an entire nation and enshrines its vision and wisdom realized through the ages. It is transcendental and cosmic, for the essential and perennial quest of Indian art if not the beauty of form but Truth, not appearance but Reality. It has revealed these in many timeless images and symbols that have given solace and strength to Asian people through the centuries. It is this comprehensive and cosmic quality and the perennial and timeless aspect of Indian art and its fundamental unity with metaphysics that Dr. Mukerjee has essayed to bring out in this illuminating study." - dust jacket description. G/G (book has previous owner's nameplate on front page and small discoloration marks, age toning on textblock, all pages clear and intact - dust jacket is further covered with mylar that is quite teared, but dust jacket itself shows very minimal shelf wear) .

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Book number: 181850

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: Indian Art ; Indian Art ; ; Indian Art

Namgyal Thondup, Palden

Rgyan-Drug Mchog-Gnyis

Gangtok, India, Namgyal Institute Of Tibetology, 1962. Hardcover. cooper textured boards w/ black printing. 53 pgs w/ 7 plates; 5 color. tan paper dustjacket w/ black printing. Includes five color plates of Thangkas depicting Buddha and eight black and white masters of Indian Buddhism; each plate accompanied with an essay. Includes Sanskrit-Tibetan glossary. A nice copy. VG. pastedowns rippled from publisher's glue. pgs rippled. pgs clean & bright. ex-libris plate to cover endpaper. dustjacket has chipped & curled edge-wear; edges rubbed; tears to corners.

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Book number: 181558

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: Rgyan-Drug Mchog-Gnyis, Buddhist Art, Indian Buddhism, Sanskrit ; Rgyan-Drug Mchog-Gnyis, Buddhist Art, Indian Buddhism, Sanskrit ; ;

Nanavati, J.M. and M.A. Dhaky

The Maitraka and the Saindhava Temples of Gujarat

Ascona, Switzerland, Artibus Asiae, 1969. Hardcover. red boards w/ gilt emblem. 83 pgs w/ section of 70 bw illustrations. cream illustrated dustjacket w/ red printing. plain cardboard slipcase. Appears to have resided within its slipcase for much of it's existence. A nice, clean and bright copy. VG+ (light edge-wear to covers. two spots of foxing to upper textblock. pgs clean; plate section edge toned. dustjacket scuffed w/ wear to corners; some light foxing) .

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Book number: 185013

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: Maitraka and the Saindhava Temples, Indian Temple Art, Art of India ; Maitraka and the Saindhava Temples ; ;

Narazaki, Muneshige and C.H. Mitchell

The Japanese Print: Its Evolution and Essence

Tokyo/ Palo Alto, CA, Kodansha International, 1970. Third printing. Hardcover. Black silk cloth boards with red Japanese lettering on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. White and color illustrated dust jacket with black lettering, decorative end pages, 274 pages, 107 mounted color illustrations. Text is in English. English adaption by C.H> Mitchell. "In this book the author attempts to place the Japanese print in a very broad historical setting. He has striven to grasp and transmit an understanding of Japanese popular culture from its inception in the fifteenth century to the formation of the ukiyo-e school in the late seventeenth century--through the florishing period of the ukiyo-e print in the eighteenth century, and into the nineteenth century, when it was absorbed into the culture of modern times. The later prints are treated in a new way. No longer are they put into the category of a "decline" and "downfall," where most of the earlier critics and historians put them. The author recognizes the late period as one of social disintegration and cultural chaos, but he conceives of it as a transition--as a sort of revolution or renaissance of popular art, and the significance of the renaissance is emphasized."--pg. 11. Table of Contents: List of plates -- Adaptor's preface / C.H. Mitchell -- Introduction / Narazaki Muneshige -- Print sizes -- The early prints -- The full-color prints -- Later prints -- On collecting Japanese prints -- Chronological chart --Bibliography -- Index and Glossary. VG/VG (slight shelf wear/rubbing to boards mainly along edges. Dust jacket has light shelf wear. Pages are otherwise very crisp and clean.) .

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Book number: 179357

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: General Asian Art ; Japanese Art ; ; General Asian Art

Nobuo, Ita: et al.

Japan Muveszet

[Budapest], Corvina, 1980. Hardcover. Tan boards with color illustration and black lettering, rear decorative end pages, 265 pp, illustrated in bw and color. Text in Hungarian. Japanese fine arts. Includes bibliography on pp 247-249. VG- (light wear to boards, corners bumped, light foxing to block, rear inside hinge is torn near end of book. All pages are intact and clear) .

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Book number: 177454

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: ; Japanese Fine Arts ; ;

Ogawa, Kazumasa

Chrysantehmums of Japan

Tokyo, Urisabakimoto Ogawa Shashin Seihanjo shiten, 1892. Softcover. Bound in oversized illustrated wraps with string ties, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates, all illustrations with protective guard sheets. "In phototype & from photographic negatives taken by him"--Cover. Each plate includes the name of the flower printed below the image. Photographer: K. Ogawa. Good (light aging to wraps and corners chipped; most pages have a small tear along edge. Age toned as expected but plates are otherwise clean. Bookplate of Edwin R. Holden inside front cover.

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Book number: 187559

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: Asian General Art ; Chrysanthemums; Pictorial Works: Photography ; ; Asian General Art

Pechilis-Prentiss, Karen

The Embodiment of Bhakti

New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. Hardcover. White boards with black lettering and illustration, gray and white spine with white lettering; xi, 265 pp, "Bhakti, an influential religious perspective in India, has long been of interest to scholars; from the orientalists, who drew upon Sanskrit sources in their definition of bhakti as devotion to a personal deity, to modern scholars, who have explored bhakti poetry and the legends of its authors through sources in the regional languages of India. In this interpretive history of bhakti, both chronicle and comparison are used to identify and analyze bhakti as understood by various Tamil Siva-bhakti authors and authorities."--Publisher's description. Contents include: pt. I. Images of Bhakti. 1. Bhakti as Devotion. 2. Bhakti as a Movement -- pt. II. Bodies of Poetry. 3. Pilgrimage and Praise. 4. Defining a Community -- pt. III. Contours in Song, Sculpture, and Story. 5. Regional Voices through Song. 6. Images of Tamil Bhaktas -- pt. IV. A Corpus of Hymns. 7. Defining the Center of the Temple. 8. The Tamil Saiva Siddhanta. App. A. Umapati Civacaryar's Tevara Arulmuraittirattu -- App. B. Umapati Civacaryar's Tiruvarutpayan. VG+ (previous owner's name is inside front cover, book is otherwise like new) .

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Book number: 181828

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: General Asian Art ; Hindu Literature and Poetry ; ; General Asian Art

Pei, Jing Fang and Juwen Zhang, et al.

Treasures of the Chinese Scholar

New York / Tokyo, Weatherhill, 1997. Softcover. glossy black wraps w/ cover illustration. printed french flaps. 165 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. A nice, clean copy. VG. scuffing & scratches to covers; edge-wear; previous owners name to inside front cover; price sticker to back cover. pgs bright.

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Book number: 179624

Catalogue: General Art - Asian

Keywords: Chinese Decorative Arts ; Chinese Decorative Arts ; ;