Asia Society

Southeast Asia : problems of United States policy by William Henderson( Book )

3 editions published between 1963 and 1964 in English and held by 617 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ritual vessels of bronze age China by Max Loehr( Book )

4 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 601 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Monks and merchants : Silk Road treasures from Northwest China Gansu and Ningxia 4th-7th century by Annette L Juliano( Book )

11 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 567 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Stunning works in precious metals, glass, and stone--many recently excavated and virtually unknown outside China--shed new light on a pivotal epoch in Chinese history. From the 4th through 7th century, monks and merchants freely traveled along the fabled Silk Road, linking China with the west, propagating Buddhism, and purveying exotic goods and artifacts that fundamentally transformed Chinese culture and society. This sumptuous volume, the first to explore the magnificent treasures and sites of China's northwest section of the Silk Road, accompanies an exhibition at the Asia Society in New York. The text by an international team of scholars illuminates the importance of the region in this period of fertile cross-cultural exchanges between Eastern and Western Asia

The evolution of the Buddha image by Asia Society( Book )

7 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A catalogue of an exhibition shown in the galleries of Asia House as an activity of the Asia Society. The text, by a Harvard professor, is a survey of the theme

Designed for pleasure : the world of Edo Japan in prints and paintings, 1680-1860( Book )

6 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 526 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book examines the floating world of popular culture centered in Edo [modern Tokyo] during the period between 1680 and 1860, when Japan transformed itself from an agrarian to a booming commercial economy. By 1710, Edo was the largest city in the world, with a population of over a million. We know so much about this time in part because of the vast body of imagery created and treasured by succeeding generations. The artists and writers held a looking glass up to their heady world and, in the process, to themselves. Fads and fashions proliferated, and this highly literate, consumer-driven society insisted on being up to date. Innovative color printing techniques fed the demand for ever-new information

Indonesian political thinking, 1945-1965 by Herbert Feith( Book )

4 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 505 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

One way or another : Asian American art now by Asia Society( Book )

6 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 494 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contemporary Asian American artists--with a strong sense of being American and an acute critical consciousness of world matters--grapple with issues of identity in a way that sets them apart from their predecessors. Whereas many Asian American artists of a previous generation directly referred to an Asian sense of self in their works, it can be argued that younger Asian American artists only sometimes make reference to it or omit it entirely. This creatively designed book focuses on recent works by seventeen Asian American artists born in the late 1960s and 1970s--including Patty Chang, Kaz Oshiro, and Jean Shin--to explore this pivotal generation of artists, the prevalent themes in their art, and the different ways they configure identity in their work. One Way or Another features examples of painting, sculpture, and video and installation art--many previously unpublished--and includes essays that discuss the shifting meaning of Asian America over the last decade and address the issues of mixed heritage and the emergence of an evolving Asian American identity in an increasingly globalized society

Japanese arts of the Heian period, 794-1185 by John M Rosenfield( Book )

3 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 488 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The art of the Korean potter; Silla, Koryŏ, Yi by Robert P Griffing( Book )

6 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 482 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Arts of the Islamic book : the collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan by Anthony Welch( Book )

10 editions published in 1982 in English and German and held by 470 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan contains some of the world's finest examples of painting and calligraphy and is perhaps the most important private Muslim collection of Islamic art. This volume, richly illustrated with 24 color plates and 101 black-and-white photographs, provides a brief history of the collection and offers a generous selection of paintings, manuscripts, calligraphies, bindings, and drawings that spans the geographic range of Islamic art from North Africa to India. Detailed discussions of each illustration introduce readers to the major patrons and artists in the development of the arts of the precious book. Anthony Welch and Stuart Cary Welch have selected the most magnificent pages from the prince's collection for this volume. Included are portraits of the great Mughal rulers of India, paintings from the pages of a sixteenth-century Shahnamah (Book of Kings) of Iran, and stunning examples of calligraphy. Among the Muslim manuscripts represented are Qur̕ans from North Africa, Ottoman Turkey, Iran, and India; historical works such as the Ottoman illustrated manuscript of the Tuhfet ul-Leta̕if; philosophical treatises such as the Ethics of Nasir al-Din Tusi of India; and literary works such as the late-sixteenth-century Anvar-i Suhayli, commissioned and probably illustrated by the leading Safavid Iranian painter Sadiqi Bek. -- Inside jacket flap