Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Asian - General

La grande sfida dell'arte italiana tra l'Unita e la Prima guerra mondiale e quella di creare uno stile nazionale competitivo e riconoscibile a livello europeo. Il volume intende indagare gli sviluppi artistici italiani nei loro rapporti internazionali Tra Oltralpe e Mediterraneo mettendo in rilievo il ruolo di cerniera giocato dall'Italia nell'Europa del tempo, sia dal punto di vista geografico, sia culturale. I singoli casi di studio indagano l'aggiornamento di artisti, critici e amatori d'arte italiani verso la contemporanea scena artistica europea, cercando di creare contatti...

The Thiri Rama - or the Great Rama - was written for court performance and is the only known illustrated version of the Ramayana story in Myanmar. Based on palm-leaf manuscripts and scenes carved on over 300 sandstone plaques at a mid-nineteenth-century Buddhist pagoda west of Mandalay in Myanmar, this book presents an original translation of the Thiri Rama rendered in prose.

The volume also includes essays on the history and tradition of the Ramayana in Myanmar as well as the cultural context in which the play was performed. It contains many...

Hailing from Shanghai, China, Zhang Jian-Jun (b.1955) is one of the most disciplined and gifted contemporary Asian artists of our time. Zhang graduated from Shanghai Drama Institute's Fine Arts Department in 1978 and is today an Adjunct Professor at the Fine Arts Department of New York University.

Zhang's art perforates the surface of East-West fusion and the idea of time, expressing his strikingly unique and profoundly perceptive musings. Exploring the essence of these topics, his art may not be instantaneously interpretable by many; however this is also the very quality that...

Ye Jian Qing (b. 1972) is a foremost example of an artist who has redefined what it means to be a contemporary Chinese artist; retaining the aesthetic and philosophical heritage of Chinese cultural influences while displaying an individualistic creative identity. Born in Zhejiang Province, China, Ye is a well established artist, having won acclaim from critics and collectors alike. Having obtained his Master Degree and PhD from the Beijing Central Academy of Art (CAFA), he is currently teaching at the Fresco Department in CAFA.

In a bold and valuable reversion to subtle yet...

Most renowned for his cast paper murals developed in the 1970s, Cheung Yee (b. 1936) is widely regarded as the pioneer of the contemporary art movement in Hong Kong. His artistic innovativeness and contributions have also won him The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Member class (MBE) in 1979 conferred by the Queen of England. Not only has he staged over 100 exhibitions world-wide, Cheung is also the only living artist in the history of Hong Kong to have been specially invited to hold 3 solo-exhibitions at the prestigious Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Cheung was professor of...

One of the most progressive and radical new artists to emerge in Asia, Budi Ubrux (b.1968) is less a visionary than an acerbic social reactionary. Prior to winning the Philip Morris Indonesian Art Award in 2000, Budi Ubrux was a billboard artist and painter in Switzerland.

His paintings are powerful satirical observations on social degeneration through the alarmingly haunting aesthetic of faceless figures mummified in newsprint. Inspired by the Indonesian government's transitional period from the "Orde Baru" (New Order) to the "Orde Reformasi" (Reformation Order) in 1999 and its...

Wucius Wong was born in 1936 in Guangdong Province, China, and moved to Hong Kong at a very young age. Originally, he wanted to pursue a literary career, but gradually shifted his interest in pursuit of an artist's career. Started as a self- taught artist and attracted to Western modernism, he later studied under the tutelage of Lui Shou-Kun in 1958, whose works entailed the exploration of traditional concepts via a modernist approach. He went to the United States to study Western art forms from 1961 to 1965. Upon his return, he worked as an Assistant Curator at the City Museum and Art...

The Art of Resistance surveys the lives of seven painters--Ding Cong (1916-2009), Feng Zikai (1898-1975), Li Keran (1907-89), Li Kuchan (1898-1983), Huang Yongyu (b. 1924), Pan Tianshou (1897-1971), and Shi Lu (1919-82)--during China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a time when they were considered counterrevolutionary and were forbidden to paint. Drawing on interviews with the artists and their families and on materials collected during her visits to China, Shelley Drake Hawks examines their painting styles, political outlooks, and life experiences.

These fiercely...

This spectacular collection of nearly 200 jeweled weapons and priceless accoutrements from the Indian subcontinent was assembled over many decades by Sheikh Nasser and Sheikha Hussah al-Sabah for The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait. Produced for aristocratic patrons who valued the arts, these richly decorated edged weapons and other princely objects bear witness to the legendary opulence and refinement of the Indian courts during the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Many incorporate decorative features originating in Central Asia, the Iranian world, China, and even Renaissance Europe,...