PARAGON BOOKS •Ordering Information: 1507 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60605 tel: 1-800-55-BOOKS, (312) 663-5155; fax: 312 663-5177 e-mail: paragon@paragonbook.com internet: www.paragonbook.com •Thomas Lawton and Thomas W. Lentz, Beyond the Legacy: Anniversary Acquisitions for the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery This volume presents for the first time the gifts and purchases honoring the 10th anniversary of the Sackler Gallery (in 1997) and the 75th anniversary of the Freer Gallery (in 1998). They include works from the ancient Near East, South Asia (India, Tibet, Nepal), Southeast Asia, China, and Japan. Highlights are prehistoric earthern wares from Thailand, prehistoric stones from China, exceptional paintings by Bada Shanren, the Ellsworth Collection of Later Chinese Calligraphy, a rare Ming carved black lacquer table, a Taizokai mandala, a Shohaku's landscape painting, a Yoshitoshi print, and several modern Japanese ceramics. (1998), 352 pp., over 150 color illus., paper: $60.00 •Vidya Dehejia, ed., Devi - The Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Art Focusing on the female divinity Devi, this publication features artifacts from 36 different collections, including Indian, Nepalese, Tibetan, Pakistani, Sri Lankan and Chinese works dating from 100 B.C.E. to the present day. (1999), 408 pp., 160 color and 90 b/w illus., cloth: $85.00 See also: EXHIBITIONS •National Museum of Chinese History, A Journey Into China's Antiquity, 4 vols. This significant new publication tells the story of China's rich history and civilization through a collection of excellent photographs and textual descriptions of thousands of precious relics and remains drawn largely from the collection of the National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing. Rare artifacts, portraits, books, and historical documents never before published were exclusively photographed for these four volumes. Vol. 1: Palaeolithic Age - Spring and Autumn Period; vol. 2: Warring States - Northern & Southern Dynasties; vol. 3: Sui Dynasty - Northern and Southern Song Dynasties; vol. 4: Yuan Dynasty - Qing Dynasty. Each volume has approximately 320 pages and over 500 color photographs. Each volume $80, set of 4 volumes $295. •Janet Baker, Flowering of a Foreign Faith: New Studies in Chinese Buddhist Art This volume presents new research on topics which centers around the questions of how Chinese Buddhist art evolved and what characteristics mark it as distinctly Chinese. Touching upon the Indian roots of Buddhism, the authors focus on the transformations that took place once the belief system entered the Chinese political, social, and philosophical sphere. Contributors include Janet Baker, Soichi Shinohara, Judy Chungwa Ho, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, Wu Hung, Ning Qiang, Marilyn Martin Rhie, Angela Howard, and Denise Leidy. 200 pp; numerous color and b&w photographs; $60. •Christopher Randall, The Brush and the Stone: The Dr. Dean Edell Collection of Chinese Art 153 pp; over 200 color illustrations; cloth: $85. •Claudia Brown et al., Minol Araki This volume accompanies the first international traveling exhibition of the work of Japanese painter Minol Araki. Essays provided by Claudia Brown, Richard Barnhart and Steven Owyoung. 131 pp; 62 color photographs; $45. See also: EXHIBITIONS •Lloyd Cotsen et al., Japanese Bamboo Baskets: Masterworks of Form and Texture 391 pp., over 250 color plates, numerous b&w illus., cloth: $800 See also: EXHIBITIONS •Robert Harrist, Jr., and Wen Fong, The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection 1999; 450 pp.; color and b&w illus.; cloth: $75; paper: $45 See also: EXHIBITIONS •John Rosenfield, Extraordinary Persons: Works by Eccentric, Non-Conformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and John Powers, 3 vols. 1999; vol. 1: 336 pp., vol. 2: 400 pp., vol. 3: 200 pp.; 235 illus., 24 in color; cloth: $175 •Wang Shixiang et al., Classical and Vernacular Chinese Furniture in the Living Environment 1998; 188 pp.; over 100 color illus.; cloth: $80, paper: $50 •Japan Society Gallery, Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private Collections: Masterworks of Form and Texture 1999; 196 pp.; 90 color illus.; cloth: $50 See also: EXHIBITIONS •Larry Gotuaco, Rita C. Tan and Allison Diem, Chinese and Vietnamese Blue and White Wares Found in the Philippines 1997; 278 pp.; 122 color plates, 11 b&w illus.; cloth: $95; paper: $65 Return to article selection page