Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan
Dora C. Y. Ching, Louise Allison Cort and Andrew M. Watsky
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An in-depth look at the dynamic cultural world of tea in Japan during its formative period Around...
Collecting and Displaying China's Summer Palace in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France
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In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and...
Critical Mass: Moscow Art Magazine 1993-2017
Viktor Misiano, Ruth Addison, Oleg Kulik and Kate Fowle
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With the launch of Moscow Art Magazine in 1993, curator and critic Viktor Misiano gave readers...
Landscapes: Photographs 1926-1946
August Sander and Rose Rittenhouse
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In 1975, German readers were introduced to the Rheinlandschaften, a collection of stunning images of...
Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China
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From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived...
Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good
Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, Dominic Willsdon and Lisa Phillips
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How should we understand the purpose of publicly engaged art in the twenty-first century, when the...
The Benin Plaques, a 16th Century Imperial Monument
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The 16th century bronze plaques from the kingdom of Benin are among the most recognized masterpieces...
The Blue Cupboard: Inspirations and Recollections
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This book was started as a memoir of my mother and subsequently developed into something more like a...
The Edge: Is the Military Dominance of the West Coming to an End?
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The size of western armed forces, their stocks of weaponry and their readiness for combat are...
The Paragone in Nineteenth-Century Art
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Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and...