Search Results: Titles starting with N from Jorge Welsh Books

Estilo Mexico Editores/Turner, 2005 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 327 pages with 193 colour illustrations; 25 x 32.3 cm ; 2.29 Kg; May show signs of shelf wear.; "Namban" is one of the first known Eastern terms for Westernization, and it describes a century of Japanese trade with Europe in the 1500s and 1600s, trade that influenced Japanese society and art a great deal until the nation, in response, sealed its borders. Japanese art showing Namban influence is well known; here the antiquarian and historian Rodrigo Rivero Lake uses the term to identify Japanese influence in not just Western art of the same era, but New World, Mexican art. Lake sketches the shared history of Asia and Viceregal Mexico (then a European colony), which face one another across the Pacific. He follows the travels of the Galeons of Manila and Nao of China from Asia to Acapulco, and the Japanese schools of painting and artistic techniques introduced in the process. Every… Read More

Éditions Chandeigne, Paris, 2015 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dustjacket); 25.7 x 25 cm; 1.171 Kg; 175 pages with colour illustrations; Between 1543 - when Europeans arrived in Japan - and the 1640s when the country was closed to foreigners, the Japanese had regular contacts with the nanban-jin (Barbarians from the South). These merchants and missionaries, mainly from Portugal, were the source of a theme in Japonese art in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. The paintings that decorated the nanban byobu (folding screens) depicted an extraordinary confrontation of civilizations ans its beauty is captivating. Through paintings primarily done buy the Kano school, the history of Portuguese arrival in Japan unfolds before our eyes. Sometimes critical, sometimes joyful and festival, the byobu reveal the beginning of Asia's Westernization. Nanban Folding Screen Masterpieces presents thirteen of these byobu accompanied by text about the fascinating history of the… Read More

Antverpiae, Ioannem Mevrsivm, 1635 Book. Good. Soft cover. Latin text.; Paperback (in green morocco slipcase with gilt lettering).; 11.5 x 17.5 cm; 0.3 kg; 144 pages.; Hand written title on spine.; Used with signs of wear, namely signs of a previous bookplate removed from the rear of the front cover which also shows a pen written number on the top of the page. Slightly soiled throughout. Signs of have been re-cased in the past.; The first edition was published anonymously in Rome in 1635 ("mainly the work of Ferreira and is in fact sometimes quoted under his name, see Sommervogel (Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, Brussels, III, col. 681-2)" excerpt from Hubert Cieslik, The Case of Christovão Ferreira, Monumenta Niponica, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 1974). After the publication of this latin edition, a French edition was published in Paris, 1635. FIRST LATIN EDITION. SCARCE. Translated from the Italian by Jean Bolland.; Describes the martyrdom of Christians in Japan from… Read More

Réunion des Museés Nationaux, France, 2001 Book. Good. Soft cover. English text; Paperback; 22.4 x 28.2 cm; 0.629 Kg; 128 pages with colour illustrations.; Signs of wear, with markings on the cover and back cover. Minimal edgeworn. No markings on the interior; Opening in Paris in 1889, the Musée Guimet was greatly expanded in 1945 when it received the collections of Khmer art and architecture from the Musée du Trocadéro, and those of Far Eastern decorative arts from the Louvre. Since then these original holdings, further augmented by a constant influx of new acquisitions, have heightened our appreciation of artefacts discovered in the much wide context of Asia as a whole. No longer are they exotic objects or curios, but rather true works of art belonging to the mainstream of world art history..

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan in association with Hudson Hills Press, New York and Manchester, 2004 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 24 x 31 cm; 1,3 Kg; 175 with colour illustrations.; Used book in very good condition. The dust jacket has tears ans scratches due to shelf wear. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. Interior in very good condition with minor signs of wear.; Catalogue from the exhibition Nature Transformed: Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection held at: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor from June 12 - October 3, 2004; Mobile Museum of Art from October 7 - December 31, 2005; Museum of Art and Design, New York, 2006.; Artists working in wood are creating some of the most compelling contemporary art to be found in any medium, offering rich rewards for close investigation. Often deriving out of a functional past, much of today's wood art works as abstract sculpture, responding… Read More

Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, Germany, 2000 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and German text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 22.8 x 30.4 cm; 1.722 Kg; 288 pages with 325 colour illustrations; Minor signs of wear on the cover, spine and back cover.; Dust jacket now protected with a clearcover.; Volume 1.; Netsuke, decorative sash toggles worn by Japanese men, attracted the attention of the Europeans already in the 19th century. Today these delightful art objects are coveted by collectors throughout the world. Netsuke motifs encompass mythical beings, vernacular deities, characters from legends and everyday life, foreigners, animals and plants. Consummate mastery of the carver's craft in a great variety of materials, among them wood, ivory, horn, coral, tortoiseshell and lacquer, distinguishes these miniature works of art. The masterpieces created by famous carvers like Yoshimura Shûzan (1700-1773) and Ohara Mitsuhiro (1810-1878) shaped aesthetic developments in this art medium. In… Read More

Sotheby Publications by Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, London, 1982 Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 21.5 x 31 cm; 2,740 Kg; 612 pages with 182 illustrations in colour and 1414 monochrome.; Revised edition with 296 new illustrations.; Used book with signs of wear. The dust jacket has a minor tear and scuffs on the top to the spine and also a small scuff on the rear of the front cover. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. Minor signs of wear in the interior.; Since its publication in 1974, this book has established itself as a standard reference work for collectors or netsuke. 1300 representative pieces from one of the most comprehensive collections ever to have been formed are discussed and ilustrated, including full details of artists, schools and subjects. In this new, revised edition over 100 more photographs of artists' signatures have been added, bringing the total number to over 300, and greatly increasing the book's value for… Read More

Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, London, 1974 Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 21.5 x 31 cm; 2,456 Kg; 564 pages with black and white illustrations.; Used book with signs of wear. The dust jacket has tears ans scuffs. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. Signs of wear on the interior, namely a stamp of a previous owner on front free endpaper. Good readable/working copy.; The famous Hindson collection of Netsuke, sold at Sotheby's in a series of seven sales between 1967 and 1969, is the mos important and all-embracing of its kind ever to have come up for auction. The sales led to a greatly increased international interest in this Japanese miniature art form. Neil K. Davey, who has been responsible for the documenting and cataloguing of Sotheby's Japanese sales for over twelve years, has founded his book on the information he acquired while working on the items in the M.T. Hindson collection. He has supplemented this information… Read More

Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc. of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan, 1979 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket in slipcase); 16.4 x 23.8 cm; 1.015 Kg; 325 pages with 226 illustrations, 24 in colour.; Eleventh printing. Used book with minor signs of wear. The dust jacket has a minor tear on the bottom of the dust jacket. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. Interior as new. Signs of wear on the slipcase.; In recent years a number of books have appeared in Western languages on the fascinating miniature sculptures of Japan called netsuke. Oddly enough, all these have been written by Occidentals, most of whom have drawn heavily - with varying degrees of accuracy - upon the research of Japanese experts. High time it is, then, that the leading Japanese authority, Ueda Reikichi, be allowed to speak for himself. Ever since its Japanese publication in 1943, his 'Netsuke no Kenkyu' has been recognized as a definite work in… Read More

British Museum Publications Limited, London, 1976 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 20 x 25.7 cm; 0.722 Kg; 184 pages including 36 netsuke in colour and 650 monochrome illustrations.; Used book with minor signs of wear..The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Netsuke open the door to almost every aspect of Japanese life seen in miniature. So intricate and delicate, even humorous at times, is their carving that in the West it is often forgotten that netsuke served a functional purpose as small toggles. They were to stop the cord slipping on the sash, which hung the small objects that every man needed to carry around with him - his tobacco pouch, pipe, purse and yatate (a combined writing-brush and ink-well). Before the seventeenth century netsuke were insignificant objects and rarely of artistic interest. With increasing prosperity, merchants, often rich and enlightened patrons of the arts, were not allowed to flaunt their riches and so… Read More

Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1971 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 16.5 x 25.5 cm; 0.694 Kg; 112 pages with black-and-white and colour illustrations.; Used book in very good condition. Minor signs of wear on the exterior. The rear of the front cover dust jacket is price clipped.The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Although New Hall porcelain began to be appreciated for its artistic qualities some years ago, and in consequence eagerly collected, there is still confusion about what is and what is not New Hall. The fact that existing studies of it are either very brief or else out of date has not helped. By persistent observation, comparison and documentary research, Mr. Holgate has finally succeeded in establishing the shapes and decoration of genuine New Hall and the way it developed between 1781 and 1835; and he has reconstructed much of the New Hall pattern book. His comprehensive and discriminating study sets out in detail… Read More

Jorge Welsh Research and Publishing, 2023 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover.; 23.5 x 29.7 cm.; 2.2 Kg.; 296 pages with 269 colour and 6 black & white illustrations.; LIMITED EDITION OF 400 COPIES.; Exibition catalogue dedicated to the theme of Chinese blue ground porcelain produced in the city of Jingdezhen, from a period ranging from the 17th to the 19th century. This is the first publication ever dedicated to this particular theme, illustrating and discussing 94 individual examples in its 61 entries and including wide-ranging introductory articles on the subject by Ronald W. Fuchs II, editor of Ceramics in America and independent scholar, and Bruno Alexandre Morais, researcher at Jorge Welsh Research and Publishing..