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  • A History of Japanese Theatre

    Edición de Jonah Salz ...
    Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese theatre and its continuing global influence. Written by eminent international scholars, it spans the full range of dance-theatre genres over the past fifteen hundred years, including noh theatre, bunraku puppet theatre, ... Leer más

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  • Inexorable Modernity

    Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts

    Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt threatened by Western powers, with their sense of superiority and military might. Yet, the Japanese were more prepared to meet this challenge than was ... Leer más

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    Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics.This provocative book is a tractate—a treatise—on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that “follow the brush” wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by ... Leer más

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  • The Porcelain Thief

    Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China

    de Huan Hsu ...
    A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before.In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long ... Leer más

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  • Customs and Culture of Vietnam

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  • Wonderful World of Netsuk

    With One Hundred Masterpieces of Miniature Sculpture in Color

    Japanese netsuke-miniature carvings-are profiled in this wonderful Japanese arts book.These tiny masterpieces of sculpture (mostly in ivory and wood), of lacquer, and of metalwork captivated collectors with the charm of their conception, the intricacy of their detail, and the sheer tactile pleasure of handling them. Basically they were utilitarian in purpose, serving as toggles or pendants to ... Leer más

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  • Zen Telegrams

    de Paul Reps ...
    This book of Zen poetry and art blends simple, haiku-like poetry with bold minimalist ink brush drawings.The unique books of Paul Reps have attracted countless readers since they were first published in the 1950s. His classic Zen Flesh, Zen Bones remains one of the most popular books on Zen ever published in English.Zen Telegrams is a collection of Reps's picture-poems," works of calligraphic art ... Leer más

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  • Creativity and Taoism

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    In Creativity and Taoism, Chang Chung-yuan makes the elusive principle of Tao available to the western mind with objectivity, warmth, and depth of insight. It is an important contribution to the task of making the Taoist wisdom accessible to the western intellect'- Ira Progoff'No one can read Chang's book without experiencing a broadening of his mental horizons'- John C. H. Wu, Philosophy East and ... Leer más

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    „All living beings are Buddhas and have wisdom and virtue within them. (Buddha) Buddha ranks among the most often depicted holy figures of the world perhaps appearing more than Christ, a subject widely treated by Western artists. Venerated in all the nations of Asia, and even beyond, his image took form along the Silk Road, the birthplace of many schools of Buddhism. Indeed, the Buddhist religion ... Leer más

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  • Existence

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    de David Hinton ...
    This is the story of existence, and it begins with a painting. Join David Hinton, the premier modern translator of the Chinese classics, as he stands before a single landscape painting, discovering in it the wondrous story of existence—and as part of that story, the magical nature of consciousness. What he coaxes from the image is nothing less than a revelation: the dynamic interweaving of mind ... Leer más

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    This is the long-awaited compendium of Lewis Baltzs writings from 1975 until 2007, drawn from his critical writing for magazines such as Art in America, the Times Literary Supplement, LArchitecture dAujourdhui and Purple. The book includes Baltzs texts on Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Robert Adams, Michael Schmidt, Allan Sekuka, Chris Burden, Thomas Ruff, Barry Le Va, Jeff Wall, Félix González ... Leer más

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