Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House

Also known as: 理想国|湖南美术出版社, 理想国丨湖南美术出版社

Founded
1980
Country / Region
China
Notable books
99 Ways to Tell a StoryGardens Have Their RealmWalking the Floating World: Essays on Travel in Japan Through the Lens of Haiku

81 books 67 authors

About the publisher

Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House focuses on art education and art theory, with publishing directions spanning art, design, architecture, social sciences, and popular science. In architecture and garden studies, works such as Chen Congzhou's The Art of Chinese Gardens, Wang Shu's Building a House, and Tong Jun's Villas in Southeast China combine scholarly depth with readability. In art history and popular art, it offers Huang Binhong's A Minimalist History of Chinese Painting: Subtle Insights into Ancient Paintings (Annotated Edition), along with distinctive titles such as Letters to a Friend and 99 Ways to Tell a Story. Botanical notes in Forest Flowers: Margaret Mee's Botanical Notes and the popular science book Feeding Time at the Zoo expand its publishing scope beyond art, while authors such as Matt Madden, Huang Yuanfan, and Li Yongxue further enrich its content resources. The collection available here contains 21 related books; as public information is limited, the above summary of its publishing characteristics is based only on these titles.

Published (81)

99 Ways to Tell a Story cover
Rating 4.5
99 Ways to Tell a Story 马特·马登 / 黄远帆 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 This is a comic by acclaimed cartoonist Matt Madden, based on Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style, in which he tells one simple story in 99 d…
Building a House cover
Rating 4.4
Building a House 王澍 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 This book is a collection of essays on architectural culture by Wang Shu, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and one of the world's leading arc…
Garden Villas of the Southeast cover
Rating 4.3
Garden Villas of the Southeast 童寯 / Tong Ming Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 The Master of the Garden: Tong Jun's Classic on the Beauty of Chinese Classical Gardens is a seminal work by the architectural master Tong Jun, introd…
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Rating 4.2
Mealtime at the Zoo 并木美砂子 / 植木七濑 / 董纾含 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 Winner of a Special Award from the Museums Association of Japan. A biologist's 30 years of observation, bringing the secret lives of animals vividly t…
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Rating 4.2
Letters of Note: A Museum of Private Letters 肖恩·亚瑟 / 冯倩竹 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 A collection of private letters from a host of notable figures: Jack Kerouac inviting a Hollywood star to appear in On the Road, Hemingway's letter of…
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Rating 4.0
The Beauty of Chinese Makeup 李芽 / 陈诗宇 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 From prehistory to the Qing dynasty, for whom did Chinese women apply makeup, and how did they do it? Through ancient paintings, sculptures, and mural…
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Rating 3.9
The Light of Ancient Porcelain 涂睿明 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 Arranged chronologically by dynasty, this book selects 77 of the most beautiful treasures in the history of Chinese ceramic art, recording every brill…
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Rating 3.9
After I Got Depression, I Started Pulling a Cart to Sell Cakes 锵锵堂阿哲 / 烨伊 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 A story of fighting and coexisting with depression for 15 years—a journey of self-healing that unfolds around pulling a cart and selling cakes. The pr…
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Rating 3.7
A Record of Deep Affection 林曦 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 Deep Affection is an interview project launched by "Lin Xi's Little World" in [year], with "deep affection" taken from Zhang Dai's words: "A man witho…
Gardens Have Their Realm cover
Rating 4.5
Gardens Have Their Realm Chen Congzhou Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2025 A selection of celebrated essays by Chen Congzhou, master of garden art. Through this book, come to understand Chinese gardens. Chinese garden art is …
Huang Binhong's Minimalist History of Chinese Painting: Subtleties of Ancient Paintings (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) cover
Rating 4.3
Huang Binhong's Minimalist History of Chinese Painting: Subtleties of Ancient Paintings (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) Huang Binhong / 邵军 / 王怀志 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2025 A master class in painting from the great master Huang Binhong—grasp the essence of Chinese painting history in one book! With more than 140 color pla…
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Rating 4.3
Ancient Egyptian Civilization 金寿福 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2025 This book is a general-audience scholarly work on ancient Egyptian civilization by Jin Shoufu, professor in the Department of History at Fudan Univers…
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Rating 4.3
Flowers of the Forest: Margaret Mee's Botanical Notes 玛格丽特·米 / 李永学 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2025 Margaret Mee was not only a world-renowned botanical artist but also a bold explorer of the Amazon rainforest and a legendary woman. From 1956 to 1988…
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Rating 3.9
Drinking Tea with Su Dongpo 周重林 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2025 Zhou Chonglin, a renowned scholar of tea culture, offers a detailed study of more than 50 of Su Shi's poems, ci lyrics, and prose writings on tea, rec…
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Rating 3.8
Yungang: 1,500 Years of People and Grottoes 蒯乐昊 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2025 Recommended by Chen Danqing! From the Northern Wei to the AI era, one book to understand the past and present of the Yungang Grottoes. Richly illustra…
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Rating 3.8
All Are Flower Watchers 李叶飞 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2025 From the founder of the million-follower "Plant Planet": a zero-cost guide to the aesthetics of everyday life, and a way to break free from mental exh…
Sometimes I Want to Be a Bird cover
Rating 3.8
Sometimes I Want to Be a Bird 猛犸 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2025 A healing comic collection by Mengma, the wildly popular Xiaohongshu comic artist. The works that struck a chord with countless readers are finally he…
Eclipsed Sun cover
Rating 3.5
Eclipsed Sun 由·得林洛斯 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2025 [Mystery Novel + Literary Fiction + Suspense + Crime Fiction + Psychology + Criminal Investigation + Case-Solving] This is a collection of psychologic…
The Hidden Cat cover
Rating 3.2
The Hidden Cat 恩顾 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2025 The Third Criminal Investigation Unit is handling the cultural relics case. Under Captain Du Yin are two undercover operatives: the Lynx, whose real n…
Compulsory Education Textbook: Art · Fine Arts, Grade 3, Volume 1 (Hunan Fine Arts Edition) cover
Compulsory Education Textbook: Art · Fine Arts, Grade 3, Volume 1 (Hunan Fine Arts Edition) 徐冰 / Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2025 This is a primary school fine arts textbook compiled by Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House in accordance with the Art Curriculum Standards for Compulsor…

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