Art and Artists in China Since 1949, Hardcover - Ying Yi

Contributor(s): Author: Ying YiWith: Xiaobing TangIn this lavishly illustrated study, the scholar and critic Yi Ying brings a distinctly Chinese pe...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

An in-depth study of the expanding role of the moving image in British art over the past thirty years

*First history of Black artists & black art in Britain *Black british artists like Ofili & McQueen are very popular and highly respected. *Students...

The Ormesby Psalter is perhaps the most magnificent yet enigmatic of the great Gothic psalters produced in East Anglia in the first half of the fou...

well-known poems such as Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and Auden's 'Musee de Beaux-Arts', Homer's immortal account of the forging of the Shield of...

The definitive catalogue to a world-class collection of Chinese contemporary art, which includes painting, photography, sculpture, installation and...

Reducere. A collection of short fiction, memoir, non-fiction, and poetry by Aboriginal writers from across Canada, plus original Aboriginal artwork. The Indi...

The preeminent historian Ying-shih Yu offers a magisterial examination of religious and cultural influences in the development of China's early mod...

Reducere. As China opens itself to the world and undertakes historic economic reforms, a little girl in the southern city of Guangzhou immerses herself in a ...

From Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Artist of the Beautiful" and Albert Camus's "The Artist at Work" to Bernard Malamud's "Rembrandt's Hat" and Aimee B...

Reducere. "Traditional papercuts are perfectly suited to the kite images . . . With its folkloric tone, this stands on its own as a story about creativity."-...

Reducere. "Compestine's almost tongue-in-cheek tale is a nearly unbeatable combination of slapstick humor, fast pace, and food."--Bulletin of the Center for ...

Reducere. The food plants of an area provide the material basis for the survival of its population, and furnish inspiring stimuli for cultural development. T...

Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text explores the events that lead to the rise of communis...

Unbuttoned: The Art and Artists of Theatrical Costume Design documents the creative journey of costume creation from concept to performance. Each c...

Why exactly did Van Gogh cut off his ear? Was Warhol an original or just a copyist? This title provides answers to all this. It includes entries th...

The Western world's views on China are filled with prejudices and misunderstandings caused by the ignorance of the history and current situation of...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Ying ZhuNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 236 x 34Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farm...

Reducere. Discover the China that before now was only whispered about in the dark.In this collection, award-winning writers and translators Yi Izzy Yu and Jo...

Reducere. In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi ...

Reducere. "Wei Ying-Wu was undoubtedly one of the great T'ang poets, yet his work is much less well known in the West than that of Li Po, Tu Fu, and Po Chu-i...

DescriptionAs the art world shifts and expands, the position of everyone in its orbit--from viewers to critics and curators to artists themselves--...

Based on John Kingdon's theory of the multiple streams, the book explains the origins of the legislative process and its outcomes by examining the ...

Reducere. What changes in China's modern defense policy reveal about military organizations and strategy Active Defense offers the first systematic look at C...

Chinese Refugee Law and Policy, 1949–2017 - Lili Song

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art in WarsawAuthor(s): Agata PietrasikNumber of pages: 292Collection: New Histories of ArtPublication date: 2021Dimens...

Contributor(s): Author: Yi RenAuthor: Xiyuan LiangThis user-friendly guide to the basics helps you learn how to speak Chinese quickly and easily by...

In Taiwanese writer Lo Yi-Chin's Faraway, a fictionalized version of the author finds himself stranded in mainland China attempting to bring his co...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Graham (University of Oxford China Centre, UK) HutchingsNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Di...

A comprehensive introduction to Chinese legal scholarship and the scholars who developed the new Communist legal system during the initial decades ...

Legal Lessons examines how China's party-state attempted to motivate ordinary citizens to learn laws during the Mao period. Archival records, advic...

Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting chronicles the life of a modern art form. In the late 1910s Chinese painters began working outdoors. T...