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This book examines the extraordinary artworks––which range from cast bronze figures and altar heads to ivory tusks––from the African Kingdom of Benin, which flourished during the 15th century.

This volume sheds light on the enduring significance of textiles as a major form of aesthetic expression across Africa and examines their influence on contemporary artists.

This book demonstrates the breadth and beauty of Islamic calligraphy across centuries and continents, as seen in rare early folios of the Qur’an.

This first comprehensive catalogue on the de Menils' collection of African art––including its formation––features 120 of the museum’s finest pieces.

An accessible new guide to understanding Chinese paintings through 36 diverse masterpieces that span 1,000 years from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

This comprehensive volume examines the career of Wang Hui––the most celebrated painter of late-17th-century China––and his innovative contributions to landscape painting.

Featuring more than 200 works and previously unpublished primary documents, this groundbreaking book is the first to examine art made in China during the Cultural Revolution.

This unprecedented landmark reference volume provides a full account of calligraphy in China, including its history, theory, and importance in Chinese culture.

A lavish and unprecedented survey of Viet Nam’s body of artwork––including burial jars, jeweled gold pieces, and ritual drums––from the first millennium B.C. to the 18th century.

An elegant book that explores the aesthetics and history of the traditional tea ceremony in Japan from the 9th century to the present day.

This handsome book––the first English-language publication on the subject––highlights the diverse art of the early period of Korea’s revolutionary Joseon dynasty.

An entertaining look at Japanese tin toys modeled after American automobiles in the two decades after World War II.

This beautiful book examines contemporary Japanese bamboo masters who work in sculptural forms and discusses their relationship to traditional basketry.

One of the first illustrated surveys in English of modern-era Japanese crafts––including ceramics, lacquerware, metalcraft, and wood––this book discusses the artists and ideas that shaped the aesthetic of 20th-century Japan.

This handsome volume is the first comprehensive study of the art and architecture of the Fatimids––the Ismaili Shi'i dynasty that ruled in North Africa and Egypt from 909 to 1171.

This engrossing book explores the first millennium of Islamic culture, shattering stereotypes and enlightening readers about the events and achievements that have shaped contemporary Islamic civilization. A wonderful introduction to the rich history of the Muslim people, the volume proceeds from Muhammad’s seventh-century revelations to the great Ottoman, Satavid, and Mughal empires and conc...

This groundbreaking book explores the emergence of Persian albums in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and examines the ways the albums evolved into portable collections created to preserve and display art. Beautifully illustrated with many rare and previously unpublished images, the book demonstrates how the practice of album-making opens a fresh vista on the Persian art tradition.

Spanning some seven thousand years, this book explores the beautiful and diverse world of Chinese sculpture, including neolithic figurines, rows upon rows of underground terra-cotta statues, exquisite bronzes, and Buddhas carved in cave walls. The authors analyze and present nearly five hundred works, discussing both the secular and religious sides of China’s sculptural legacy.

The burial site known as the Wu Family Shrines in the Shandong Province of northeastern China has served as a benchmark for the study of the Han Dynasty. This book presents scholarship that prompts reexamination of the site’s implications, including its attribution to the Wu family. The catalogue reinterprets the cemetery structures based on the discovery of additional structures and archaeo...

This magnificent book, written by a team of eminent international scholars, is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting over a span of some three thousand years. Both accessible to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar, the book provides the most up-to-date and detailed history of China's pictorial art available today.

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting ...

For two thousand years, veneration for the Buddha has inspired glorious imagery celebrating his beliefs. This lavishly illustrated book presents and discusses paintings, sculpture, metalwork, manuscripts, mandalas, and textiles from many countries. These magnificent works portray the life of Buddha and address the different ideas that shaped Buddhism through the ages.

These lavishly illustrated books are the first and second in a series of three cataloguing the Asian art collection at the Norton Simon Museum. Each work of art is fully illustrated and discussed, and both volumes include substantial introductions that shed light on the aesthetic and metaphysical underpinnings of these masterpieces.

These lavishly illustrated books are the first and second in a series of three cataloguing the Asian art collection at the Norton Simon Museum. Each work of art is fully illustrated and discussed, and both volumes include substantial introductions that shed light on the aesthetic and metaphysical underpinnings of these masterpieces.

These lavishly illustrated books are the first and second in a series of three cataloguing the Asian art collection at the Norton Simon Museum. Each work of art is fully illustrated and discussed, and both volumes include substantial introductions that shed light on the aesthetic and metaphysical underpinnings of these masterpieces.

This magnificent book surveys painting as well as sculpture, ceramics, and metalwork of the Iranian world from prehistoric times to the early twentieth century. Eleanor Sims traces for the first time the evolution of such themes as princes, heroes, lovers, animals, landscape, Persian literature, and religion in these rich and creative arts. She uncovers remarkable and unexpected thematic consisten...

This richly illustrated book is the first to introduce and discuss the most important archaeological discoveries in China during the entire twentieth century. The two-volume set draws on Chinese archaeological fieldwork to address topics in archaeology, art history, epigraphy, history, and religion.

Million-year-old Paleolithic sites, extraordinary jade and ceramic artifacts from Neolithic sites, excavated tombs and palaces of the Zhou and Shang dynasties—all are part of the archaeological riches of China. This magnificent book surveys China’s archaeological remains, takes us to the great finds of the past century, offers new insight into the formation of...

This comprehensive and authoritative book encompasses Chinese architecture from Neolithic times through the late nineteenth century. Extensively illustrated with color plates, line drawings, maps, and charts, the book recounts the story of China’s architectural achievements and the historical, political, cultural, and social factors that shaped them.