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OUT OF STOCK Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints in the Anne van Biema Collection The publication of Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints in the Anne van Biema Collection and the accompanying exhibition are the museum’s first major presentation of Japanese prints from the Edo period (1615 – 1868). They come from a collection of more than three hundred ukiyo-e prints acquired by Anne van Biema since the 1960s, and represent her personal choices from the tens of thousands of woodblock prints published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The prints selected for this publication and exhibition reveal how artistic imagination and superlative technical skill combined to create compelling images of the actors and courtesans of the urban demimonde, legendary heroes and villains, classical and contemporary literary themes, and the natural world. Although the prints can be appreciated for their aesthetic qualities alone, they also yield insights into the rich, complex culture of the urban centers of Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto in Edo period Japan. This is a comprehensive 362-page publication with color illustrations and five essays contextualizing the imagery with the period, culture, customs, and formal and aesthetic qualities. JAPANESE PRINTS 2002, 9 x 12 inches, 362 pp, fully illustrated in color Hardcover, ISBN: 0295982705, ISBN-13: 9780295982700 code: free mas B-2

OUT OF STOCK In Pursuit of Heavenly Harmony: Paintings and Calligraphy by Bada Shanren This richly illustrated presentation of Bada Shanren's works offers fresh insight into the mysterious life and creativity of an esoteric Chinese artist who became one of the most prominent painters of the early Qing dynasty. The catalog has 203 pages, fully illustrated with 152 color and 30 black and white reproductions and images throughout, as well as a biography of the artist and a historical essay on Shanren’s calligraphy and seals written by Qiangshen Bai. PAINTING/CALLIGRAPHY 2003, 9 x 11 inches, 203 pp, 152 color and 30 b&w images Softcover, ISBN 0834805251, ISBN 13: 9780834805255 code: free heav A-2

OUT OF STOCK Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics: A Close Embrace of the Earth This illustrated exhibition catalogue presents Noguchi's little-known ceramic work while also introducing an American audience to the work of prominent postwar Japanese ceramic artists with whom Noguchi collaborated or interacted. CERAMICS 2003, 8 x 11 inches, 240 pp, 81 color photographs, 78 b&w images Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-520-23923-4 code: free nog A-2

OUT OF STOCK Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade For more than a thousand years, from around 800 BCE to 600 CE, the kingdoms of Qataban, Saba (biblical Sheba), and Himyar, in present-day Yemen, grew fabulously and famously wealthy. They derived their wealth from control over the caravan routes of the southern Arabian Peninsula and, in particular, from the international trade in frankincense and myrrh. Excavations at the capitals of these ancient kingdoms have yielded spectacular examples of ashlar architecture, distinctive stone funerary sculpture, coins, elaborate inscriptions on stone, bronze, and wood, and sophisticated metalwork. Admired for its fragrant and abundant foliage and luxuriant pastures, Yemen was central to the ancient “global economy” that extended from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean. It is no wonder that it was known to the Greeks and Romans as “Arabia the Blessed.” The exhibition Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade and its accompanying publication explore this rich and little-known period of cultural achievement and internationalism in the southern Arabian Peninsula. ANCIENT ART 2005, 9 x 10 inches, 181 pp, color illustrations, maps and timeline Softcover, ISBN 0934686009, ISBN-13: 9780934686006 code: free yem A-2

OUT OF STOCK The Potter’s Brush: The Kenzen Style in Japanese Ceramics Ogata Kenzan (1663–1743), Japan's greatest ceramic artist, is celebrated for his inventive decoration and for his role as workshop master. The Potter's Brush explores the development of the Kenzan style through his own distinctive pottery, as well as wares that continued to be produced long after his death. Written by Richard L. Wilson, Director of Japan Studies and Professor of Art and Archaeology at the International Christian University, Tokyo, The Potter's Brush is fully illustrated and contains a complete inventory of the Freer Gallery of Art collection. CERAMICS 2001, 9 x 11 inches, 239 pp, 210 color and 55 b&w images Softcover, ISBN 158941571, ISBN-13: 9781858941578 code: free pot table

OUT OF STOCK Beyond the Legacy: Anniversary Acquisitions for the Freer and Sackler Galleries This volume covers an extensive selection of Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, Ancient Near Eastern, South Asian, and Southeast Asian art that was bequeathed to the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, and was published on the galleries’ tenth and seventy-fifth anniversaries, respectively. It features color plates of ceramics, calligraphy, paintings, metalwork, religious texts, and bronze and stone carving from these regions, each plate accompanied by an informative essay. The book also includes essays on the history of the galleries and their prominent donors. ASIAN ART 1998, 12.5 x 9.5 inches, 352 pp, color and b&w plates and illus Softcover, no ISBN code: free leg str6-6

OUT OF STOCK Hokusai Hokusai's achievement as a designer of commercial and privately commissioned prints, as an illustrator of printed books, and as a painter is explored in depth in this two-volume catalogue of an exhibition co-organized by the Freer and Sackler Galleries and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, in cooperation with the Tokyo National Museum. Featured for the first time since 1960 (the two hundredth anniversary of Hokusai’s birth) is a substantial selection from the Freer Gallery’s extraordinary collection of paintings by Hokusai, which was assembled mainly by the American collector and philanthropist Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919). The catalogue is fully illustrated in color and black and white and is accompanied by eight comprehensive essays that contextualize the work. PRINTMAKING/PAINTING 2006, 9.5 x 10.5 inches, 367 pp (2 volumes), color and b&w illus Softcover, ISBN: 1-58834-239-5, ISBN-13: 978-1-58834-239-3 code: free hok A-3

OUT OF STOCK Japanese Masterworks from the Price Collection Joe Price purchased his first Japanese painting in the 1950s, under the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright. Over the next five decades, he and his wife Etsuko would collect more than 200 masterpieces from the Edo period (1615-1868), a time when Japan had isolated itself from the rest of the world. Curiously, during that period of national seclusion, independent and diversely creative artists flourished as never before. Today, the Etsuko and Joe Price Collection is placed among the finest in the world. The detailed patterns evident in many of the works reflect the high regard artists of the period held for textile designers. The expressiveness in the eyes of the various animals, demons, deities, and people depicted suggest that they all inhabited the same world rather than different spiritual levels—the prominent religious theory of the time. The animal world becomes more animated, landscapes have their own light, spirits are alive, past becomes present, evoking a mood that suggests familiarity with all worlds, above and below. At the collection's core are screens, hanging scrolls, fans, and some of the finest examples of the distinctive, hauntingly preternatural renderings of animal life by Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800), one of the most innovative and imaginative of Kyoto's eighteenth-century painters. Jakuchu's prominence in recent decades has been greatly aided by the Price's intensive interest in his work. The extensive imagery featured in this catalogue represents the rich aesthetic diversity that characterized the Edo period. Essays by leading scholars of Japanese painting and architect Frank O. Gehry put both the collection and the collector in context and provide insight into the wonders of Japanese art. JAPANESE ART 2007, 9 x 13 inches, 263 pp., 225 full color and 114 b&w images Softcover, ISBN 978-0-934686-05-1 code: free pri B-4

OUT OF STOCK The Art of Xu Bing Words without Meaning, Meaning without Words Xu Bing (born 1955) stands out as a leading figure in the international art world. His works and installation pieces, including Ghosts Pounding the Wall (an actual rubbing of the Great Wall of China done at Jinshanling in 1990), and his ongoing exploration of language have brought him worldwide attention. As a teenager in China during its Cultural Revolution, Xu Bing experienced the emotional and social upheavals that marked this tumultuous time. He was removed from his "reactionary" parents in Beijing and sent to the provinces to work in a small farming commune as part of Mao Zedong's "rustication" program in 1974. His forced participation in the revolution led him to re-examine all he had known, from the meaning and appearance of Chinese characters to the purpose of the Great Wall and the value of art and culture. An accomplished calligrapher, printmaker, and art teacher, Xu Bing turned his simultaneous interest in and mistrust of language into an extended examination of Chinese characters. The result was the Book from the Sky, a powerful installation of books, scrolls, and panels for which he invented hundreds of new characters in the late 1980s. This uneasy play between the familiar and the unknown - these words without meaning - caused an uproar in the Beijing art community and led the Chinese government to censor Xu Bing, forcing him to emigrate to the United States in 1990. Featuring works in Square Word Calligraphy, his whimsical, invented language, this book traces Xu Bing’s career and provides illustrations and in-depth descriptions of his works. Author and art historian Britta Erickson provides an insightful look at the artist’s development, and Xu Bing himself contributes a fascinating chapter on his life and work. CONTEMPORARY ART 2001, 8 x 11 inches, 84 pp, 54 color illus Softcover, ISBN 0295981431 code: free xu A-1

 

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