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South/Southeast Asian Art

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

Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India, 1100–1900. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. 224 pp.; 155 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300175820)

Aitken, Molly Emma. The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 352 pp.; 65 color ills.; 173 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300142297)

Allan, Nigel, ed. Pearls of the Orient: Asian Treasures from the Wellcome Library. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2003. 215 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (0906026601)

Baas, Jacquelynn, and Mary Jane Jacob, eds. Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 264 pp.; 121 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0520243463)

Bailey, Gauvin. Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America 1542–1773. University of Toronto Press, 1998. 310 pp. Cloth (0802046886)

Banerji, Debashish. The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore. New Delhi: Sage, 2010. 228 pp.; 32 color ills. Cloth $39.95 (9788132102397)

Bartholomew, Terese Tse, and John Johnston. The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan. Exh. cat. Honolulu and Chicago: Honolulu Academy of Arts and Kingdom of Bhutan in association with Serindia Publications, 2008. 480 pp.; 300 color ills. Paper $45.95 (9781932476361)

Behl, Benoy K. The Ajanta Caves: Artistic Wonder of Ancient Buddhist India. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. 256 pp.; 186 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0810919834)

Berger, Hans Geor. Het Bun Dai Bun Laos: Sacred Rituals of Luang Prabang. Westzone Publishing Ltd., 2000. 256 pp.; 190 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (1903391024)

Brac de la Perrière, Éloïse. L’art du livre dans l’Inde des sultanates. Paris: Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2008. 367 pp.; 47 color ills.; 19 b/w ills. Paper €36.00 (9782840505730)

Brancaccio, Pia. The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad: Transformations in Art and Religion. Brill's Indological Library, vol. 34. Leiden: Brill, 2011. 332 pp.; 64 ills. Cloth $154.00 (9789004185258)

Branfoot, Crispin. Gods on the Move: Architecture and Ritual in the South Indian Temple. London: Society for South Asian Studies and British Academy, 2007. 296 pp.; 17 color ills.; 217 b/w ills. Cloth £ 30.00 (9780955392412)

Brereton, Bonnie Pacala, and Somroay Yencheuy. Buddhist Murals of Northeast Thailand: Reflections of the Isan Heartland. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Mekong Press, 2010. 96 pp.; 107 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9786169005315)

Brown, Rebecca M. Art for a Modern India, 1947–1980. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 224 pp.; 10 color ills.; 17 b/w ills. Paper $22.95 (9780822343752)

Brown, Rebecca M. Art for a Modern India, 1947–1980. Ed. Nicholas Thomas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2009. 224 pp.; 10 color ills.; 17 b/w ills. Cloth $79.95 (9780822343554)

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

Brown, Kerry, ed. Sikh Art and Literature. New York and Palo Alto, Calif.: Routledge in association with Sikh Foundation, 1998. 217 pp.; 42 color ills.; 94 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (0415202892)

Bucarelli, Angelo, ed. Il Drago e la Farfalla: Arte contemporanea in Vietnam. Exh. cat. Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2011. 144 pp.; Many color ills. Paper €16.00 (9788849210156)

Bucarelli, Angelo, ed. Obiettivo Vietnam: Festival della cultura vietnamita. Exh. cat. Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2007. 64 pp.; Many color ills. Paper €20.00 (9788849212785)

Buchanan, Sherry. Mekong Diaries: Viet Cong Drawings and Stories, 1964–1975. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 264 pp.; 230 color ills. Cloth $30.00 (9780226078304 )

Carrier, David, Garner Tullis, and Richard B. Tullis. Garner Tullis and the Art of Collaboration. Garner Tullis, 1997. 163 pp.; 80 color ills. Cloth $70.00 (0963099019)

Chattopadhyay, Swati. Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny. New York: Routledge, 2008. 336 pp.; few b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780415392167)

Chaturachinda, Gwyneth, Sunanda Krishnamurty, and Pauline W. Tabtiang. Dictionary of South and Southeast Asian Art. Chiang Mai, Thailand: University of Washington Press in association with Silkworm Books, 2000. 144 pp.; 15 color ills.; 79 b/w ills. Paper $14.95 (9747100975)

Chaudhary, Zahid R. Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 272 pp.; 13 color ills.; 74 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (9780816677498)

Chiu, Melissa, and Benjamin Genocchio, eds. Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. 320 pp.; 16 color ills.; 22 b/w ills.; 38 ills. Paper $29.95 (9780262516235)

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)

Clark, John. Asian Modernities: Chinese and Thai Art Compared, 1980 to 1999. Sydney: Power Publications, 2011. 288 pp.; 20 color ills.; 146 b/w ills.; 166 ills. Paper $59.95 (9780909952389)

Cohen, Andrew L. Temple Architecture and Sculpture of the Nolambas. New Delhi: Ajay Kumar Jain for Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 1997. 151 pp.; 0 color ills.; 76 b/w ills. Cloth $72.00 (8173042225)

Company, Reindeer. The Art Historian, 2 Vols., ("Ancient to Medieval" and "Renaissance to Modern and Non-Western"). The Reindeer Company, 1997. 600 ills. CD-ROM $40.00

Cooper, Ilay, and Barry Dawson. Traditional Buildings of India. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997. 192 pp.; 92 color ills.; 128 b/w ills. Cloth (0500341613)

Cort, Allison Louise, and Paul Jett, eds. Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia. Exh. cat. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2010. 160 pp. Paper $40.00 (9780295990422)

Crouch, James S. A Bibliography of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers and Distributors in association with Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2002. 444 pp.; 1 b/w ills. Cloth $68.95 (8173044287)

Crouch, Dora P., and June G. Johnson. Traditions in Architecture: Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania. Oxford University Press, 2000. 433 pp.; 200+ b/w ills. Paper (0195088913)

D'Alleva, Anne. Arts of the Pacific Islands. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 176 pp.; 106 color ills.; 19 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (9780300164121)

Dadi, Iftikhar. Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia. Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks, edited by Carol W. Ernst and Bruce B. Lawrence. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 360 pp.; 28 color ills.; 78 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780807833582)

Dallapiccola, A.L. Indian Art in Detail. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. 144 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $22.95 (9780674026919)

Dallapiccola, Anna L. South Indian Paintings: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection. Oakville: David Brown Book Company, 2010. Many color ills. Cloth $120.00 (9780714124247)

de Almeida, Hermione, and George H. Gilpin. Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. 352 pp.; 60 color ills.; 180 b/w ills. Cloth $150.00 (075463681X)

Dehejia, Vidya, John Guy, John Eskenazi, and Daud Ali. Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India. Exh. cat. London: Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2007. 160 pp.; 120 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9781903973837)

Dehejia, Vidya. The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India. Exh. cat. New York: American Federation of Arts in association with University of Washington Press, 2003. 255 pp.; 49 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (0295982845)

Dehejia, Vidya. The Body Adorned: Sacred and Profane in Indian Art. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 219 pp.; 70 ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780231140287)

Desai, Devangana. Khajuraho. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. 124 pp.; 4 color ills.; 25+ b/w ills.; 13 ills. Cloth $24.95 (0195653912)

Dhaky, M. A. The Indian Temple Traceries. New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies and D. K. Printworld (P) Limited, 2004. 490 pp.; 403 b/w ills. Cloth $144.00 (8124602239)

Dhar, Parul Pandya. The Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture. D. K. Printworld (P) Limited, 2010. 317 pp.; 359 ills. Cloth $140.00 (9788124605349)

Diamond, Debra. Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2009. 337 pp. Cloth $40.00 (9780500514436)

Dye III, Joseph M. The Arts of India: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000. 599 pp.; 307 color ills.; 175 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0917046609)

Edensor, Tom. Tourists at the Taj: Performance and Meaning at a Symbolic Site. Routledge, 1997. 223 pp.; 9 b/w ills. Cloth $25.99 (0415167132)

Edwards, Holly, ed. Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America. Princeton University Press in association with Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1999. 242 pp.; many color ills.; some b/w ills. Paper $65.00 (069105004X)

Eleftheriotis, Dimitris, and Gary Needham, eds. Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. University Of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 488 pp. Paper $28.00 (0824830857)

Evans, Kirsti. Epic Narratives in the Hoysala Temples: The Ramayana, Mahabharata & Bhagavata Purana in Halebid, Belur and Amrtapura. Brill, 1996. 302 pp.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth $124.50 (9004105751)

Fischer, Joseph. Story Cloths of Bali. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2003. 144 pp.; many color ills. Cloth $40.00 (1580084877)

Flood, Finbarr B. Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu–Muslim" Encounter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. 424 pp.; 178 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780691125947)

Flood, Finbarr B. Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval “Hindu-Muslim” Encounter. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2009. 560 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth Rs 1695.00 (9788178242736)

Fontein, Jan. Art of Southeast Asia: The Collection of the Museum Reitberg. Zurich: Museum Rietberg, 2008. 154 pp.; 91 color ills.; 19 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9783907077238)

Fraser, Sarah E. Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618–960. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. 400 pp.; 156 ills. Cloth $70.00 (0804745331)

Ghosh, Pika. Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 232 pp.; 91 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780253344878)

Giannuzzi, Luigi, and Gavin Aldred. Cock: Indian Firework Art. North Pomfret, VT: Trafalgar Square Publishing, 2000. 86 pp.; 86 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (0953743810)

Ginsburg, Henry. Thai Art & Culture: Historic Manuscripts from Western Collections. University Of Hawai'i Press, 1999. 138 pp. Cloth $45.00 (0824823672)

Glover, William J. Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 280 pp.; 75 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816650224)

Goswamy, B.N., and Caron Smith. Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting. San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2004. 304 pp.; 127 color ills. Paper $40.00 (0937108349)

Goswamy, B.N. Nainsukh of Guler: A Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill-State. University of Washington Press, 1998. 304 pp.; 104 color ills.; 241 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (3907070763)

Green, Denise. Metonymy in Contemporary Art: A New Paradigm. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. 136 pp.; 69 color ills.; 6 b/w ills. Cloth (0816648786)

Greenhouse, Wendy, and Susan Weininger. Chicago Painting, 1895-1940: The Bridges Collection. Intro. Susan C. Larsen. Exh. cat. Springfield and Champaign: Illinois State Museum in association with University of Illinois Press, 2003. 240 pp.; 78 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Paper $32.95 (0252072227)

Guha-Thakurta, Tapati. Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 432 pp.; 132 b/w ills. Cloth $80.50 (023112998X)

Guy, John. Indian Temple Sculpture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 192 pp.; 150 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9781851775095)

Hardy, Adam. The Temple Architecture of India. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2007. 256 pp.; 320 ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780470028278)

Harris, Clare. In the Image of Tibet: Painters of Tibet Post-1959. Reaktion Books, 1999. 220 pp.; 45 color ills.; 46 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (1861890397)

Heppell, Michael, Limbang anak Melaka, and Enyan anak Usen. Iban Art: Sexual Selection and Severed Heads. KIT Publishers, 2004. 304 pp.; many color ills. Cloth $70.00 (906832540X)

Heringa, Rens. Nini Towok's Spinning Wheel: Cloth and the Cycle of Life in Kerek, Java. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2010. 92 pp.; 110 color ills. Paper $25.00 (9780977834426)

Hill, Christopher. Survival and Change: Three Generations of Balinese Painters. Canberra, Australia: Pandanus Books, 2005. 160 pp.; many color ills. Paper $29.00 (1740761235)

Hosagrahar, Jyoti. Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism. New York: Routledge, 2005. 256 pp.; 45 b/w ills. Paper $165.00 (9780415323758)

Hutton, Deborah. Art of the Court of Bijapur. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. 216 pp.; 34 color ills.; 46 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780253347848)

Ireland, Ken. The Cythera Regained? Rococo Revival in European Literature and the Arts, 1830–1910. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005. 240 pp.; 69 b/w ills. Cloth (0838640788)

Jackson, David P,. Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet. Exh. cat. Masterworks of Tibetan Painting Series. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2011. 240 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780984519026)

Jackson, David P. The Nepalese Legacy in Tibetan Painting. Exh. cat. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2010. 288 pp.; 190 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780977213184)

Jacob, Preminda. Celluloid Deities: the visual culture of cinema and politics in south india. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. 318 pp.; few b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (9780739110607)

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

Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi. Monumental Matters: The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 232 pp.; 18 b/w ills. Paper $23.95 (9780822349228)

Keurs, Pieter ter, and Endang Sri Hardiati, eds. Indonesia: The Discovery of the Past. Exh. cat. KIT Publishers, 2004. 208 pp.; many color ills. $37.50 (9068324942)

Khanna, Balraj, and George Michell. Human and Divine: 2000 Years of Indian Sculpture. The Hayward Gallery, 2000. 84 pp.; 52 color ills. Paper $24.95 (1853322105)

Khanna, Krishen, Aditi De, and Jehangir Sabavala. Lines from an Artistic Life: The Drawings of Adimoolam. Ahmedabad, India and Aldershot, U.K.: Mapin Publishing and Lund Humphries, 2008. 164 pp.; 260 b/w ills. Cloth £27.50 (9780853319825)

Kinney, Ann R., Marijke J. Klokke, and Lydia Kieven. Worshiping Siva and Buddha: The Temple Art of East Java. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2003. 304 pp.; 280 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $62.00 (0824827791)

Koch, Ebba. Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology: Collected Essays. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. 345 pp.; 235 b/w ills. Cloth $72.00 (0195648218)

Kossak, Steven, Jane Singer, and Robert Bruce-Gardner. Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1997. 224 pp.; 134 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $70.00 (0810965275)

LaRocca, Donald J. Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2005. 320 pp.; 210 color ills.; 85 b/w ills. (0300111533)

Legge, Elizabeth. Michael Snow: Wavelength. London: Afterall Books, 2009. 103 pp.; 18 color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper $16.00 (9781846380563)

Leidy, Denise Patry. The Art of Buddhism: An Introduction to Its History and Meaning. Boston: Shambhala, 2008. 352 pp.; many color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9781590305942)

Leidy, Denise Patry, and Donna Strahan. Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. 256 pp.; 227 color ills.; 168 b/w ills.; 395 ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300155211)

Lent, John A. Comic Books and Comic Strips in the United States through 2005. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005. 350 pp. Cloth (0313338833)

Leoshko, Janice. Sacred Traces: British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002. 184 pp.; 59 b/w ills. Cloth $44.95 (0754601382)

Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie, ed. Lucknow: City of Illusion. Prestel, 2005. 208 pp.; 208 ills. Cloth (3791331302)

Luczanits, Christian. Buddhist Sculpture in Clay: Early Western Himalayan Art, late 10th to early 13th centuries. Serindia Publications, 2003. 368 pp.; 323 color ills. Cloth $85.00 (1932476024)

Lyons, Tryna. The Artists of Nathadwara: The Practice of Painting in Rajasthan. Bloomington and Ahmedabad, India: Indiana University Press in association with Mapin Publications, 2004. 360 pp.; 88 color ills.; 163 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0253344174)

Mair, Victor H. Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis. University Of Hawai'i Press, 1995. 301 pp.; 9 color ills.; 94 b/w ills. Paper $19.00 (0824819152)

Markel, Stephen. India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow. Exh. cat. Los Angeles and New York: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books, 2010. 272 pp.; 240 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9783791350752)

Mason, Darielle, ed. Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2010. 304 pp.; 254 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300154429)

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

Mathur, Saloni. India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. 230 pp.; 48 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (9780520252318)

Khan Majlis, Brigitte. The Art of Indonesian Textiles: The E.M. Bakwin Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. Intro. Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Museum Studies. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2007. 112 pp.; 121 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (9780300119466)

McGill, Forrest, and M. L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati. The Kingdom of Siam: The Art of Central Thailand, 1350-1800. Exh. cat. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in association with Art Media Resources, 2004. 200 pp.; 215 color ills. Paper $29.95 (0939117274)