Newly revised and updated edition of this award-winning book.This winner of the National Art Book Prize is a richly detailed and fully illustrated survey of Chinese art, ideal for students and all those interested in China.Chinese silks and porcelains, unsurpassed for over a thousand years, have been prized around the world for their fine textures and brilliant colours. Paradox...(展开全部)

The Chinese Art Book presents a definitive selection of 300 works, from the earliest dynasties to the new generation of contemporary artists enlivening the global art world today. From painting, calligraphy, ceramics and bronzes, to contemporary installations, photography and performance art; outstanding examples from all periods are showcased side by side, to create fascinatin...(展开全部)

A concise history of one of the world's greatest and most comprehensive museum collections, from its founding in 1753. A product and symbol of the 18th-century Enlightenment, the British Museum is as iconic an expression of that cultural tendency as Johnson's Dictionary, the French Encyclopedie and Linnaean plant classification. Its collections embody the raw material of empiri...(展开全部)

Founded in 1933, the Seattle Art Museum is home to a premier collection of Chinese art. This book is the first to chronicle and analyze the growth of the collection, which was largely assembled during the first half of the twentieth century. Reviewing more than one hundred boxes of museum archives, annual reports, correspondences, and available records of all transactions, Josh...(展开全部)

（美）诺亚•查尼 Noah Charney 国际畅销书作家、艺术史家，因其在艺术犯罪领域的深厚研究而声名远扬。查尼也是一名艺术史教授，艺术犯罪研究会的创始人、会长。迄今他已出版了12本著作，包括好几本国际畅销书，诸如《乔尔乔﹒瓦萨里传》（获得普利策奖提名）、《艺术的发明》和《伪造的艺术》等。现在，他和家人及一条名叫凡﹒艾克的无毛犬生活在斯洛文尼亚。

The collections of charms, formulas, hymns and spells designed to accompany the dead of Ancient Egypt on their journey to the afterlife have always exerted a powerful fascination on modern generations. Written on papyrus, inscribed on the walls of tombs and sarcophagi, or engraved on amulets, these texts with their vignette illustrations give us unparalleled insights into the i...(展开全部)