Art Appreciation

191 books

All Things Change: Collected Essays by Li Ling on Archaeology and Art History cover
Rating 4.2
All Things Change: Collected Essays by Li Ling on Archaeology and Art History Li Ling SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2016 This book gathers essays on archaeology and art history by Li Ling, professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking Universit…
Batman: Arkham Knight #4 cover
Batman: Arkham Knight #4 Peter J. Tomasi / Victor Bogdanovich DC Comics · 2015 This is issue #4 of DC's Batman: Arkham Knight (2015 series), the fourth chapter of the digital-first run. Following the groundwork laid in the first …
The Art of Playing with Olive-Pit Carvings cover
The Art of Playing with Olive-Pit Carvings He Yue / Zhang Chenguang Modern Press · 2013 This book is one volume in the Art of Play series from Modern Press. Building on the author's earlier work Olive-Pit Carving: Appreciation and Play, i…
The Beauty of Chinese Calligraphy: A Journey Through the Aesthetics of Chinese Characters cover
Rating 4.6
The Beauty of Chinese Calligraphy: A Journey Through the Aesthetics of Chinese Characters 方建勋 Beijing Arts and Crafts Publishing House · 2025 Chinese characters are the foundation of Chinese civilization, and calligraphy is the art of writing them. This book is a popular introduction to call…
Ancient Sites (Hardcover) cover
Rating 3.5
Ancient Sites (Hardcover) Luo Zhewen Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 Ancient Sites is a collection of scholarly essays on ancient Chinese architecture by Luo Zhewen, an architectural historian and pioneer of Great Wall …
Understanding Dunhuang cover
Understanding Dunhuang 敦煌研究院 / 樊锦诗 East China Normal University Press · 2016 Understanding Dunhuang is a series of general-readership books on Dunhuang culture edited by the Dunhuang Academy and led by Fan Jinshi, published by …
Van Gogh's Letters cover
Rating 4.8
Van Gogh's Letters Vincent van Gogh / H. Anna Suh Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2015 Van Gogh's Letters is an illustrated selection centered on Van Gogh's correspondence, subtitled "Van Gogh's Letters, Paintings, and Rare Manuscripts,"…
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam cover
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Daniela Tarabra Yilin Press · 2016 This book is one volume of the Great Museums series, licensed by Yilin Press from the Italian publisher Mondadori Electa. It was compiled by the Itali…
Legends of the Dark Knight Vol. 33 cover
Rating 1.9
Legends of the Dark Knight Vol. 33 James Robinson / Tim Sale This volume corresponds to issue #33 of Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989 series), titled "Blades" Part Two, published with a July 1992 cover d…
A Child's History of Art cover
A Child's History of Art 维吉尔·M·希利尔 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2012 A Child's History of Art is the last textbook that American educator Virgil M. Hillyer wrote for children in his lifetime; its original English title …
The Art of Collecting Huanghuali cover
The Art of Collecting Huanghuali He Yue / Zhang Chenguang Modern Press · 2013 The Art of Collecting Huanghuali is a dedicated volume in the "Art of Collecting" series, written for enthusiasts of huanghuali wood. Adopting a retro…
Ma Weidu Talks About Collecting: Furniture cover
Rating 4.3
Ma Weidu Talks About Collecting: Furniture Ma Weidu Zhonghua Book Company · 2008 This book is a popular reader compiled by Ma Weidu, collector and founder of the Guanfu Museum, from his CCTV Lecture Room series on traditional Chine…
Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #164 cover
Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #164 Phil Jimenez / J. M. DeMatteis · 2001 This volume is issue #164 of Wonder Woman Vol. 2, a single issue published by DC Comics in January 2001. It was co-written by Phil Jimenez and J.M. De…
Micro-Slaughter #4 cover
Micro-Slaughter #4 Marvel Comics Micro-Slaughter is a six-issue short story published by Marvel centering on the symbiote Venom, with the main plot advancing alternately along two cha…
The Butcher cover
The Butcher Matt Fraction / Salvatore La Rocca "The Butcher" is the title of a single-issue story in Marvel's The Invincible Iron Man series (written by Matt Fraction, with art by Salvador Larroca,…
Superman: Peace on Earth cover
Superman: Peace on Earth Paul Dini / 亚历克斯·罗斯 Superman: Peace on Earth is a 64-page large-format graphic novel released by DC Comics in November 1998, written by Emmy Award winner Paul Dini and dr…
Warlords Contend: A Painted Romance of the Three Kingdoms cover
Rating 4.2
Warlords Contend: A Painted Romance of the Three Kingdoms 成长 Beijing Times Chinese Press · 2019 This volume takes as its basis the meticulous heavy-color album leaves of Romance of the Three Kingdoms painted by the renowned artist Jin Xiezhong (1…
Ma Weidu on Collecting: Jade cover
Rating 4.2
Ma Weidu on Collecting: Jade Ma Weidu Zhonghua Book Company · 2008 This book grew out of Ma Weidu's lecture series on Chinese jade culture delivered on CCTV's Lecture Room. The televised version comprised eight talks;…
The Mysteries of Famous Paintings: Greek Mythology cover
Rating 4.2
The Mysteries of Famous Paintings: Greek Mythology Nakano Kyoko CITIC Press · 2015 The Mysteries of Famous Paintings: Greek Mythology is the first volume in Japanese popular art writer Kyoko Nakano's The Mysteries of Famous Paintings…
Guardians of the Galaxy: Marvel Now Vol. 18 cover
Guardians of the Galaxy: Marvel Now Vol. 18 Brian Michael Bendis / Ed McGuinness Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel Now) is the Star-Lord series relaunched by Marvel under the "Marvel Now!" initiative, written by Brian Michael Bendis …