Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Follow three kids as they take an imaginative tour of Asian art through examples found in the Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. As the kids wander from exhibit to exhibit, they picture themselves in another time and place as they explore textiles, ceramics, statues, armor, and more. Along the way, they learn a little bit about the cultures, beliefs, and daily life that resulted in these wonderful...
Publisher
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
"'Views from Jade Terrace: Chinese Women Artists 1300-1912' is the first exhibition ever devoted to the painting of Chinese women artists. In the past two decades the role of women in the arts in general has been extensively, if not yet exhaustively, surveyed in many books and articles and in a number of important exhibitions. 'Views from Jade Terrace, ' then, can be seen as a continuation of this process and a first attempt to place into proper context...
Publisher
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts and University of Washington Press, Seattle and London
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
"By the 1800s, when the artists Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige lived and worked, commoners enjoyed the numerous amenities of Edo (Tokyo), the world's largest city (pop. ca. 800,000). They launched businesses, perfected crafts, gained leisure time and literacy, traveled a coherent system of safe roads, and enjoyed art, poetry, a seemingly limitless taste for novelty, and the income to indulge them." "Ukiyo-e prints - 'pictures of the floating...
Publisher
Asian Art Museum
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Emperors' Treasures features artworks from the renowned National Palace Museum, Taipei. It encompasses paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, lacquer ware, jades, and textiles exemplifying the finest craftsmanship and imperial taste. The Chinese art book book explores the identities of eight Chinese rulers--seven emperors and one empress--who reigned from the early 12th through early 20th centuries. They are portrayed in a story line that highlights...
Author
Publisher
Asian Art Museum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1967, the phrase "flower power" transformed the commonplace flower into a Buddhist-inspired symbol of peace. In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of San Francisco's Summer of Love, this book showcases the expressive powers of flowers in Asian arts and cultures. Beginning in ancient times, a language of flowers, where certain blooms suggest specific themes, was communicated in art throughout Asia. Here forty artworks, all drawn from the Asian Art...
Publisher
Asian Art Museum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Couture Korea highlights traditional ways of dressing and shows how contemporary haute couture is rooted in Korean tradition. Through garments including baeja (woman's vest), po (man's outerwear), and baegilbok (child's costume for the 100th-day celebration), this Korean fashion book explores how each gender dressed during different seasons, on special occasions, and according to social status. Interviews with contemporary fashion designers Jin Teok...
Author
Publisher
Asian Art Museum
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Floating World --a catchphrase that defined the pleasure quarters of Edo-period Japan's (1615 - 1868) and conveyed a fantasy realm where men were led to believe they could drift aimlessly in the pursue of pleasure. Brothels were a prominent feature, but other entertainment, such as theater, music, and wrestling were also offered. Pursuit of such pleasures prompted a revolution in fashion, literature, and the visual arts, as the pleasure district...
Author
Publisher
Asian Art Museum--Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Korea is home to one of the longest and richest traditions in the world - yet it is one of the least known in the United States. San Francisco's Asian Art Museum was a pioneering advocate for bringing Korean art into United States. One of the first museums in the United States to have a gallery solely dedicated to Korean art, it has built up a remarkable collection of more than 750 objects spanning millennia of Korean culture in a variety of mediums....
Publisher
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Curators Dr. John Henry Rice, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, VMFA, and Jeffrey Durham, Associate Curator of Himalayan Art, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, co-authored the catalogue, which presents the exhibition's spectacular Himalayan art, explores the philosophical tenets encoded in the works, and details an immersive process of self-discovery. Complementary essays examine Tibetan Buddhism's ritual tools,...
Author
Publisher
Asian Art Museum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983), one of the most celebrated Chinese painters of the twentieth century, is renowned for his stylistic variety and unparalleled productivity. This book explores three key artistic periods-Chang's early ink paintings emulating ancient Chinese styles, his transcendent portrayals of nature made while residing in Brazil and California, and the innovative splashed-ink art of his later years. Stunning reproductions of masterworks...
18) The golden age of Chinese archaeology: celebrated discoveries from the People's Republic of China
Publisher
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
20) Out of character: decoding Chinese calligraphy = Fa ji : Guan yuan shan zhuang zhen cang fa shu xuan
Publisher
Guanyuan Shanzhuang Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What defines a masterwork of calligraphy? Out of Character, a collaborative effort from leading Chinese and U.S. scholars, tries to answer this question by focusing on fifteen calligraphic masterpieces. Supporting these masterworks are an additional twenty-five works of the highest quality. Calligraphy has been admired as the ultimate art form by China's educated elite for more than 2,000 years. Over that time a complex set of rules and conventions...
