UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS P.O. Box 500096 Seattle, Washington 98145-5096 tel: (206) 543-4050, 1-800-441-4115 (orders); fax: 206 543-3932, 1-800-669-7993 (orders) e-mail: uwpord@u.washington.edu internet: www.washington.edu/uwpress/ •Richard Salomon with a foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama, Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara: The British Library Kharosthi Fragments As the Dead Scrolls have changed our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, so a set of 29 scrolls recently acquired by the British Library promise to provide a window into a crucial phase of the history of Buddhism in India. (April 1999); 320 pp.; 93 illustrations; 34 in color; cloth: $65, paper: $40. •Vidya Dehejia et al., Love in Asian Art and Culture Published with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. (March 1999); 120 pp; 61 illustrations; 57 in color; paper: $24.95. •Mark Sandler, ed., The Confusion Era: Art and Culture of Japan During the Allied Occupation 1945-1952 Published with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Museum. (1997); 112 pp; 62 illustrations; 30 in color; paper: $24.95. •Colin Westerbeck with Anata Isozaki and Fuminori Yokoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto: A Tale of Two Cities Although he is a Japanese photographer who has lived in Tokyo for more than 45 years, Yasuhiro Ishimoto received his art education in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the Institute of Design in Chicago, where he studied under Harry Callahan. Ishimoto's photographs of Chicago document a period of profound social, political and racial change and record the character of the city from its lakefront beaches and downtown streets to its South Side neighborhoods. Ishimoto returned to Japan in 1953 and began a documentation of Tokyo. In his work, Tokyo and Chicago have become sister cities. This volume is based on 200 master prints, representing Ishimoto's entire career, which the photographer recently donated to the Art Institute of Chicago. (May 1999), 144 pp., 121 illus., 95 duotone, 6 in color; paper: $29.95 See also: EXHIBITIONS •Julia M. White, Reiko Mochinaga Brandon, and Yoko Woodson, Hokusai and Hiroshige: Great Japanese Prints from the James A. Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts Essays profile James A. Michener as a collector; the clothing, activities and daily lives of the people who populate Hokusai's and Hiroshige's prints; and Japanese culture in the Edo period. Published with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. (March 1999), 270 pp., 228 illus., 209 in color, appendix, bibliog., index; cloth: $45.00 See also: EXHIBITIONS •Xue Ruolin, ed., The Art of Chinese Ritual Masks Chinese wunuo masks have a history stretching back thousands of years and have spread throughout a wide area. They are made of varied materials in numerous varieties, delicate designs, and unique style. Over 600 masks are illustrated in color here, representing all major phases in the history of Chinese masks and covering almost 20 nationalities and more than 20 provinces and regions. A separate volume includes English translations of the essays. (March 1999), 264 pp., 632 color illus., map, index, text in Chinese and English; cloth, slipcased: $120.00 •B.N. Goswamy, Nainsukh of Guler: A Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill-State Going against the anonymity that is almost a defining condition of the arts of India, this book concerns itself with one individual painter, Nainsukh. It illustrates with detailed notes all the works known to be Nainsukh's and all the author believes can be attributed to him--99 works spanning the years 1730 to 1775. Nainsukh left behind a wealth of work: portraits, court scenes, elaborate compositions with scenes of the hunt and riding picnics and soirées, iconic images, renderings of musical themes. There are finished paintings, painted sketches, tinted drawings, the barest outlines. Nainsukh worked with brush and reed-pen, used thin washes of pigment or richly saturated colors, and drew in black or sepia or vermilion. Whatever he did he managed to invest with great elegance and classical balance. (March 1999); 304 pp.; 345 illus., 104 in color; notes; bibliog.; cloth: $65.00 Return to article selection page