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An examination of the surprising asymmetry hidden in the work of Sumbanese weavers. In this new study, Peter ten Hoopen reveals levels of virtuosity in the work of Sumbanese textile artists that remained overlooked for over a century of Indonesian textile research. Their richly decorated men's wraps, hinggi, have commonly been described as symmetric along both axes. But as ten Hoopen's investigation at Leiden University uncovered, this suppose...

An artist's journey of loss and retrieval as documented through photographic and philosophical mediations on time, memory, and loneliness. As a student in France in the 1980s and 1990s, Chun Wai wandered the streets and alleys of Paris, experiencing its cultural icons and backstreets and taking snapshots. Chun's photographic negatives from this time were stored in sleeves unknowingly deteriorating in the Hong Kong humidity, and were rediscover...

An introduction to Jonathan Stalling's interlanguage art. Jonathan Stalling's experimental approach bridging art, poetics, and linguistics imagines a world where individual value systems are no longer translated into the language of other mediums, but foster conscious "interlanguages, " spaces where one learns a new language without having left one's home fully behind. Stalling's conceptual language art fuses classical Chinese poetics and ling...

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Ikat Textiles of the Indonesian Archipelago offers a comprehensive overview of the profusion of ikat styles found across Indonesia, and is the first detailed reference book on the subject. Assessing Peter ten Hoopen's Pusaka Collection from a scholarly point of view, it is worth acknowledging how it illustrates the concept of 'unity in diversity', which the young state of Indonesia chose as its motto upon independence. Here, the interwoven-nes...

This catalogue illustrates the achievements to date of the Chinese realist oil painter, Xu Yanzhou. Xu was the youngest oil painter to publish a monograph of his art work in China, and had a solo exhibition at the China Art Gallery. The topics of Xu's paintings are diverse, ranging from realistic rural paintings, captivating female portraits, imaginative paintings which are close to science fiction and large scale paintings of animals. He inco...

The pursuit of knowledge and wisdom by ancient Chinese scholars manifested itself in various forms beyond the imagination of people in today's society. At the time when ancient scholars' "ears are shut to what goes on outside the window and are single-mindedly focus on the classics", the ideal state of their austere existence was the pursuit of intellectual enlightenment and spiritual fulfillment. One can imagine, any objects in their studios ...

Wang Yu Fang was born in Yiaing, coming from a long line of pottery makers, she has been in the art of pottery making for thirty years. With the influence of previous purple clay artists, she integrates modern design concepts into her works, making her purple clay teapots demonstrate modern concepts with practicality. With the suggestions of the editors, Wang Yufang produced a few hundred clay teapots and selected seventy-eight of them to be i...

This is the catalogue of the exhibition, "The Multiplicity of Simplicity Monochrome wares from the Song to the Yuan dynasties", held by the University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU. The Song dynasty (960-1279) saw a breakthrough in Chinese ceramics production. It was during this time that a number of famous kilns were established in different parts of China. The products from each kiln demonstrated a style of their own. Some of their innovative ...

This fully-illustrated catalogue is produced to accompany the exhibition "Paintings by Jeffrey Lo Wan-shu and Esther Tam Mei-yung". Husband and wife couple Jeffrey Lo Wan-shu and Esther Tam Mei-yung emigrated to Canada in 1973. They established the Chun Wah Chinese Arts Studio and have been Chairman and Honorary Director of the Ontario Chinese Artists' Association for many years. Jeffrey Lo studied painting under the renowned bird-and-flower p...

The "Mountains Ablaze" exhibition presents the history of late-Qing period China (1839-1911) through the lives of eighty-seven significant personalities who have, until recently, been both politically and culturally unpopular. In the century since the 1911 revolution, it has been possible to take a more objective view of the achievements of this group of foreigners who were closely identified with cultural imperialism, officials who served in ...

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