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Japanese/Korean Art

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.

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)

Addis, Stephen, Gerald Groemer, and J. Thomas Rimer, eds. Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture: An Illustrated Sourcebook. University Of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 344 pp.; 44 color ills.; 18 b/w ills. Paper (0824820185)

Azuma, Hiroki. Otaku: Japan's Database Animals. Trans. Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono. Minneapolis: 2009. 200 pp.; 29 b/w ills. Paper $17.95 (9780816653522)

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)

Berry, Paul, and Michiyo Morioka. Literati Modern: Bunjinga from Late Edo to Twentieth-Century Japan; The Terry Welch Collection at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Exh. cat. Honolulu and Seattle: Honolulu Academy of Arts in association with University of Washington Press, 2008. 368 pp.; 150 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780937426845)

Birnbaum, Phyllis. Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita--the Artist Caught Between East and West. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 352 pp.; 24 b/w ills. Paper $27.50 (0571211798)

Bogel, Cynthia J. With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icons and Early Mikkyo Vision. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. 496 pp.; 33 color ills.; 79 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780295989204)

Bolton, Christopher, Takayuki Tatsumi, and Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., eds. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 288 pp.; 25 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (9780816649747)

Bouquillard, Jocelyn. Hokusai's Mount Fuji: The Complete Views in Color. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 120 pp.; many color ills. Cloth $29.95 (0810993406)

Bouquillard, Jocelyn, and Christophe Marquet. Hokusai, First Manga Master. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 80 pp. Cloth $19.95 (9780810993419)

Brandt, Kim. Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. 320 pp.; 21 b/w ills. Paper $23.95 (9780822340003)

Brown, Rebecca M., and Deborah S. Hutton, eds. Asian Art. Blackwell, 2005. 520 pp.; 25 b/w ills. Paper (1405122412)

Bullen, Richard. Pleasure and Play in Edo Japan. Exh. cat. Christchurch, New Zealand: Canterbury Museum and College of Arts, University of Canterbury, 2010. 80 pp.; Many color ills. Paper (9780908650118)

Buntrock, Dana. Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Tradition and Today. New York: Routledge, 2010. Many color ills. Cloth $62.95 (9780415778916)

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)

Calza, Gian Carlo. Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories by Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and Other Artists of the Floating World. New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2010. 350 color ills. Cloth $49.00 (9780714849966)

Calza, Gian Carlo. Ukiyo-e. London: Phaidon, 2007. 520 pp.; 627 color ills.; 8 b/w ills. Paper $49.95 (9780714847948)

Carpenter, John, ed. Hokusai and His Age: Ukiyo-e Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in Late Edo Japan. Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2004. 357 pp.; 150 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. Cloth $154.00 (9074822576)

Carpenter, John T., ed. Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints. Leiden and Zurich: Hotei Publishing in association with Museum Rietberg Zürich, 2008. 432 pp.; 400 color ills. Cloth $147.00 (9789004168411)

Chiu, Melissa, Karen Higa, and Susette S. Min, eds. One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now. Exh. cat. Asia Society, 2005. 127 pp.; 146 color ills.; 7 b/w ills. $29.95 (0300120591)

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

Coats, Bruce. Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints. Exh. cat. Boston and Claremont, CA: Hotei Publishing and Scripps College, 2006. 208 pp.; 280 color ills. Cloth $123.00 (9074822886)

Conant, Ellen P., ed. Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 312 pp.; 15 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $54.00 (0824829379)

Craven, David. Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910–1990. Yale University Press, 2005. 240 pp.; 65 color ills.; 130 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (030012046X)

Cunningham, Michael R. Buddhist Treasures from Nara. Exh. cat. Cleveland: Hudson Hills Press in association with The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997. 286 pp.; 175 color ills.; 83 b/w ills. $50.00

Davis, Julie Nelson. Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2008. 256 pp.; 66 color ills.; 48 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780824831998)

Devonyar, Jill, and Richard Kendall. Degas and the Art of Japan. Reading, Penn: Reading Public Museum, 2007. 112 pp.; 96 color ills.; 3 b/w ills. Paperback $24.95 (9780300126334)

Earle, Joe. Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile; The Yoku Tanaka Collection. New York: Japan Society Gallery, 2009. 96 pp.; 70 color ills. Paper $19.95 (9780300151572)

Earle, Joe, ed. Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design. Exh. cat. New York: Japan Society, 2009. 144 pp.; 145 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9780900150476)

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)

Elliott, et al., David. Tokyo Visualist: Vol. 1. Tokyo: D.D. Wave Co., 2010. 271 pp.; 164 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $58.00 (9784309908472)

Fischer, Felice. The Art of Japanese Craft: 1875 to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2008. 60 pp.; 140 color ills. Paper $19.95 (9780300142129)

Fischer, Felice, and Kyoko Kinoshita. Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush. Exh. cat. Philadelphia and New Haven: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 504 pp.; 461 color ills.; 26 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300122183)

Frédéric, Louis. Japan Encyclopedia. Trans. Käthe Roth. Harvard University Press, 2004. 1102 pp.; 62 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0674017536)

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)

Fukasawa, Naoto, ed. Naoto Fukasawa. London: Phaidon, 2007. 240 pp.; 300 color ills. Cloth $69.95 (9780714845869)

Garcia Rodriguez, Amaury A. El control de le estampa erótica japonesa shunga. Pedregal de Santa Teresa, Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 2012. 336 pp. Paper (8786074622287)

Gerhart, Karen. The Eyes of Power: Art and Early Tokugawa Authority. University Of Hawai'i Press, 1998. 208 pp. $32.95 (0824821785)

Gerhart, Karen M. The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2009. 272 pp.; 11 color ills.; 34 b/w ills. Cloth $39.00 (9780824832612)

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)

Graham, Patricia J. Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2007. 368 pp.; 46 color ills.; 111 b/w ills. Paper $55.00 (9780824831912)

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)

Guth, Christine. Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615-1868. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 109 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. $20.00 (9780300164138)

Guth, Christine M. E., Alicia Volk, and Emiko Yamanashi. Japan and Paris: Impressionism, Postimpressionism, and the Modern Era. Exh. cat. Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2003. 192 pp.; 83 color ills.; 8 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0937426644)

Guth, Christine M. E. Longfellow’s Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 12 color ills.; 104 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0295984562)

Hammer, Elizabeth, and Teresa Russo. The Paths Dreams Take: Japanese Art from the Collections of Mary Griggs Burke and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Yale University Press in association with Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. CD-ROM $29.95 (0300086873)

Harada, Kazutoshi, ed. Art of the Samurai: Selections from the Tokyo National Museum. Exh. cat. Santa Ana, CA: Bowers Museum, 2009. 208 pp. Cloth $39.95 (9781607435792)

Havens, Thomas R. H. Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2006. 312 pp.; 10 color ills.; 24 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0824830113)

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)

Hockley, Allen. The Prints of Isoda Koryūsai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth-Century Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. 336 pp.; 8 color ills.; 51 b/w ills.; 59 ills. Cloth $60.00 (0295983019)

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

Hohenegger, Beatrice, ed. Steeped in History: The Art of Tea. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2010. 240 pp.; 372 color ills. Paper $40.00 (9780977834419)

Ikegami, Eiko. Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 476 pp.; 4 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Paper $36.99 (0521601150)

Impey, Oliver, and Christiaan Jörg. Japanese Export Lacquer, 1580–1850. Boston: Hotei Publishing, 2005. 384 pp.; 600 color ills.; 57 b/w ills. $350.00 (907482272X)

Impey, Oliver, and Malcolm Fairley. Treasures of Imperial Japan: Ceramics from the Khalili Collection. Oxford University Press, 1998. 80 pp.; 92 color ills.; 6 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (1874780129)

Irvine, Gregory. Japanese Cloisonne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 144 pp.; 207 color ills. Cloth $55.00 (9781851774821)

Isozaki, Arata, ed. Katsura: Imperial Villa. London: Phaidon, 2005. 402 pp.; 197 color ills.; 226 b/w ills. Cloth £45.00 (9781904313373)

Jang, Min-han. SeMA 2008: Four Ways to Look at Art. Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art, 2007. 204 pp.; 105 color ills. Paper $10.00

Johns, Catherine. Horses: History, Myth, Art. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. 192 pp.; 175 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780674023239)

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)

Johnson, Hiroko. Western Influence on Japanese Art: The Akita Ranga Art School and Foreign Books. Boston: Hotei Publishing, 2005. 176 pp.; 57 ills. Cloth $116.00 (9074822649)

Jungmann, Burglind. Life in Ceramics: Five Contemporary Korean Artists. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2010. 56 pp.; 64 color ills.; 56 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (9780977834433)

Jungmann, Burglind. Painters as Envoys: Korean Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Nanga. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 272 pp.; 112 b/w ills. Cloth $77.00 (0691114633)

Kagesato, Tetsuro. Cézanne and Japan. Exh. cat. Yokohama: Yokohama Museum of Art, 1998. 222 pp.; many color ills.; some b/w ills.

Kaminishi, Ikumi. Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 246 pp.; 12 color ills. Cloth $54.00 (0824826973)

Katz, Janice, ed. Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum. Exh. cat. Chicago and St. Louis: Art Institute of Chicago and Saint Louis Art Museum, 2009. 216 pp.; 145 color ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780300119480)

Keene, Donald. Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793–1841. Columbia University Press, 2005. 304 pp.; 37 color ills. Cloth (0231138261)

Kern, Adam L. Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyôshi of Edo Japan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. 567 pp. Hardback (0674022661)

Keyes, Roger S. Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan. Exh. cat. New York and Seattle: New York Public Library and University of Washington Press, 2006. 320 pp.; 250 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (0925986247)

Kikuchi, Yuko. Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory: Cultural Nationalism and Oriental Orientalism. New York: Routledge, 2004. 328 pp.; 102 b/w ills. Cloth $195.00 (0415297907)

Kikuchi, Yuko. Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2007. 286 pp.; 22 color ills.; 84 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780824830502)

Kita, Sandy. The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e. University Of Hawai'i Press, 1998. 256 pp.; 10 color ills.; 104 b/w ills. Cloth $42.00 (0824818261)

Lee, Soyoung. Art of the Korean Renaissance: 1400–1600. Exh. cat. New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2009. 140 pp.; 83 color ills.; 16 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780300148916)

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)

Levine, Gregory, and Yukio Lippit. Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan. Exh. cat. New York: Japan Society in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 222 pp.; 97 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300119640)

Levine, Gregory P. A. Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. 444 pp.; 80 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth (0295985402)

Lillehoj, Elizabeth, ed. Acquisition: Art and Ownership in Edo-Period Japan. Warren, Conn.: Floating World Editions, 2006. 208 pp.; 64 b/w ills. Paper (9781891640506)

Lillehoj, Elizabeth, ed. Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting, 1600–1700. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2004. 288 pp.; 16 color ills.; 51 b/w ills. Cloth $37.00 (082482699X)

Lunning, Frenchy, ed. Networks of Desire. Mechademia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 256 pp. Paper $19.95 (9780816652662)

Marks, Andreas, and Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, eds. Dreams and Diversions: Essays on Japanese Woodblock Prints. Exh. cat. San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2011. 216 pp.; 180 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780937108475)

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)

Marks, Andreas. Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers And Masterworks: 1680 - 1900. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2010. 523 color ills. Cloth $49.95 (9784805310557)

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)

Masselos, Jim, ed. The Great Empires of Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 240 pp.; 19 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780520268593)

McArthur, Meher. Gods and Goblins: Japanese Folk Paintings from Otsu. Pasadena, CA: University of Washington Press in association with Pacific Asia Museum, 1999. 96 pp.; 107 color ills. Paper $28.00 (1877921165)

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)

McCormick, Melissa. Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. 320 pp.; 180 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780295989020)

McKelway, Matthew. Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters from Eighteenth-Century Kyoto. Exh. cat. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2004. 208 pp.; 200 color ills. (0939117320)

McQuaid, Matilda. Shigeru Ban. London: Phaidon, 2006. 240 pp.; 435 ills. Paper $39.95 (9780714846293)

Meech, Julia, and Jane Oliver, eds. Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680–1860. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America in association with University of Washington Press, 2008. 256 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $45.00 (9780295987866)

Meech, Julia. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect's Other Passion. Harry N. Abrams in association with Japan Society Gallery, 2000. 304 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. Cloth $49.50 (0810945630)

Merewether, Charles, and Rika Iezumi Hiro, eds. Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950–1970. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007. 152 pp.; 28 color ills.; 39 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780892368662)

Merritt, Helen, and Bernd Jesse. Hiratsuka: Modern Master. University of Washington Press, 2000. 120 pp.; 25 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. Paper $22.50 (0865591938)

Mitchell, Louise, ed. The Cutting Edge: Fashion from Japan. Sydney: Powerhouse Publishing, 2005. 112 pp.; 125 color ills. Paper (1863171142)

Morioka, Michiyo. An American Artist in Tokyo: Frances Blakemore, 1906–1997. Seattle: Blakemore Foundation in association with University of Washington Press, 2008. 200 pp.; 113 color ills.; 133 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780295987736)

Morioka, Michiyo, and Paul Berry. Modern Masters of Kyoto: The Transformation of Japanese Painting Traditions. University of Washington Press in association with Seattle Art Museum, 1998. 333 pp. Cloth (0932216536)

Morris, Rosalind C., ed. Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. 328 pp.; 59 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780822342052)