SURIMONO IN THE RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM

Of all the world's great religions, where art is used to reflect the happenings, teaching, and values of various beliefs, none is believed to have been more prolific than Buddhism. With 137 vibrant color images ...

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Photography was introduced to China in the 1840s through the West's engagement in the Opium Wars and the subsequent reforms of Chinese statesmen. As a result, traditional modes of expression were dramatically transformed. Uncovered here ...

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While ancient Javanese bronze and ironwork have elicited interest, there is a lesser-known yet equally fascinating aspect of the Indonesian island's history: gold artefacts, including jewelry, clothing accessories, statues, coins, and containers. Not only do ...

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For thousands of years, across mainland and island Southeast Asia, the deification of significant ancestors and the veneration of spirits of nature has formed the basis of traditional beliefs. These beliefs are in turn the ...

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This lavishly illustrated catalogue is a comprehensive historical review of Chinese ceramics covering newly excavated discoveries from the Paleolithic era thousands of years ago to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911. Throughout China's ...

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This volume, the first in Brill's Japanese Visual Culture series, vividly describes the efforts of the Japanese monk Shunj?b? Ch?gen (1121-1206) to restore major buildings and works of art lost in a brutal civil conflict ...

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Chine, fascinante, étonnante dans sa démesure, son énergie, sa puissance. Quelle force dans sa volonté de créer, quelle fierté pour sa jeunesse, pour tout un peuple de se sentir chinois, conscient d'un passé où l'âme ...

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Japanese woodblock prints exemplified by such iconographic images as Hokusai's Great Wave, Hiroshige's Heavy Rain on Ohashi bridge, or Utamaro's enticing beauties, constitute one of the most important and influential art forms in art history. ...

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