THE CONCEPT OF DANZŌ: ‘Sandalwood Images’ in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture of the 8th to 14th Centuries
THE CONCEPT OF DANZŌ: ‘Sandalwood Images’ in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture of the 8th to 14th Centuries, by Christian Boehm, is a new title in Saffron Asian Art and Society Series. Buy this book. Download press release This lavishly illustrated volume is the first study in a Western language to examine Buddhist sculptures known as danzō (sandalwood images) and dangan (portable sandalwood shrines) in Japan from the 8th to 14th centuries,...
The Music of Ink at the British Museum
The Music of Ink at the British Museum (ISBN-13 9781872843995), published 17 April 2012 to coincide with China Focus at the London Book Fair, is edited by Helen Wang with contributions by Denis Brown, Rohan de Saram, Romesh Gunesekera, Qu Lei Lei, Yang Lian, Wang Tao and Zeng Laide. Buy this book. About the book How are contemporary artists, east and west, conveying and transforming the soul, philosophy and aesthetics of the classical...
Artists and Art Education in Africa
Artists and Art Education in Africa (ISBN 9781872843193), edited by Elsbeth Court and part of Saffron African Art and Society Series, documents an extraordinary symposium of 130 visual art specialists from twenty countries, mostly scholar-practitioners, who debated about art, African art and art education in Africa at the peak of the africa95 season in London. The collected texts indicate a variety of conditions which, in turn,...
Grammaticalization in Korean: The Evolution of the Existential Verb
This is the first book on Korean grammaticalization written in English. About Grammaticalization in Korean: The Evolution of the Existential Verb: Cross-linguistically, verbs denoting existence have been one of the most fertile sources for the development of grammatical markers (eg, English ‘be’). In the history of the Korean language as well, the verb is(i)- (the old form of iss-) has participated in the emergence of eleven different...
Blanc de chine, by Liu Youzheng (Chinese)
Blanc de chine, by Liu Youzheng (in Chinese) contains some of the most significant works of the Chinese porcelain expert Liu Youzheng on blanc de Chine porcelain vessels. Papers in this volume trace typological sequences of nine vessel types. The author maintains this is the first time that archaeological research methodologies are used in porcelain studies, and this can also be viewed as an innovation based on the studies on more...
A History of Korea
A History of Korea (9781872843865, hard cover) is a product of a particular moment in South Korean social and political history, authored collectively by the Korean Historical Research Association and published in the aftermath of the popular resistance movements of the late 1980s that brought an end to military dictatorship and ushered in direct elections for the presidency of South Korea. The historians of the Korean Historical...
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