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Japanese/Korean Art

All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.


Maximum Embodiment: Yoga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912–1955. Honolulu, HI: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2012. 240 pp.; 15 color ills.; 43 b/w ills. Paper $32.00 (9780824835378)

Barbier-Mueller, J. Gabriel, ed. Art of Armor: Samurai Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection. Exh. cat. New Haven and Dallas: Yale University Press and Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum, 2012. 360 pp.; 310 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300176360)

Busquets, Joan, ed. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project in Seoul. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2011. 86 pp.; 45 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $19.95 (9781934510315)

Ciclitira, Serenella, ed. Korean Eye: Contemporary Korean Art. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2010. 390 pp. Paper $60.00 (9788857204673)

Elliott, David, and Tetsuya Ozaki. Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: Japan Society, 2011. 136 pp.; 89 color ills.; 3 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780300166903)

Fritsch, Lena. The Body as Screen: Japanese Art Photography of the 1990s. Studien Zur Kunstgeschichte Band 192. Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag, 2011. 372 pp.; 40 color ills.; 14 b/w ills. Paper $49.80 (9783487146799)

Glassman, Hank. The Face of Jizo: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. Honolulu, HI: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2012. 304 pp.; 18 color ills.; 64 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780824835811)

Graybill, Maribeth. The Artist's Touch, the Craftsman's Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints in the Portland Art Museum. Exh. cat. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 2012. 348 pp.; 390 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9781883124328)

Hein, Laura, and Rebecca Jennison, eds. Imagination without Borders: Feminist Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social Responsibility. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Number 69. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2011. 172 pp. Cloth $60.00 (9781929280629)

Hight, Eleanor M. Capturing Japan in Nineteenth-Century New England Photography Collections. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 226 pp.; 12 color ills.; 71 b/w ills. Cloth $119.95 (9781409404989)

Hofmann, Alexander. Performing Painting in Tokugawa Japan. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2012. 192 pp.; 74 b/w ills. Paper €39.00 (9783496014515)

Johns, Barbara. Signs of Home: The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita. The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2011. 272 pp.; 40 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780295991009)

Lee, Soyoung, and Jeon Seung-chang. Korean Buncheong Ceramics: from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. 176 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300155167)

Marks, Andreas, ed. Fukami: Purity of Form. Hanford, CA: Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, 2011. 172 pp.; 125 ills. Cloth $50.00 (97806154178202)

Marks, Andreas. Fukami: Purity of Form. Exh. cat. Hanford, CA: Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, 2011. 172 pp.; 125 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780615417820)

Maske, Andrew L. Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan: Takatori Ware and the Kuroda Domain. The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700–1950. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 334 pp.; 36 color ills.; 125 b/w ills. Cloth $119.95 (9781409407560)

McCallum, Donald F. Hakuho Sculpture. Franklin D. Murphy Lecture Series. Seattle, WA and Lawrence, KS: University of Washington Press and Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 2012. 160 pp.; 50 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780295991306)

McCormick, Melissa. Elegant Perfection: Masterpieces of Courtly and Religious Art from the Tokyo National Museum. Exh. cat. Houston, TX: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2012. 128 pp.; 38 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300175936)

Rodner, William S. Edwardian London through Japanese Eyes: The Art and Writings of Yoshio Markino, 1897–1915. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012. 240 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $127.00 (9789004220393)

Rosenfield, John M. Portraits of Chōgen: The Transformation of Buddhist Art in Early Medieval Japan. Japanese Visual Culture Series, vol. 1. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012. 296 pp.; 197 ills. Cloth $132.00 (9789004168640)

Sato, Doshin. Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State: The Politics of Beauty. Trans. Hiroshi Nara. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2011. 416 pp.; 17 color ills.; 31 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9781606060599)

Teramoto, John, Stephen Addiss, and David Rosand. Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yusaku. Indianapolis and Seattle: Indianapolis Museum of Art and University of Washington Press, 2011. 144 pp.; 90 color ills. Paper $40.00 (9780295991597)

Tiampo, Ming. Gutai: Decentering Modernism. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2011. 231 pp.; 23 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Paper $99.00 (9780226801650)

Weisberg, Gabriel P., ed. The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854–1918. Jackson: Mississippi Museum of Art, 2011. 192 pp.; 178 color ills. Cloth $34.95 (9781887422192)