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Concerning
the Spiritual in Art by
Wassily Kandinsky, $3.96
Paperback - 57 pages, 1977
Kandinsky spent a lifetime painting in search of the spiritual.
His body of work was his philosophical opus, provoked initially
by the prodigious philosophical works of Madame Blavatsky...
This book was...his attempt to define and explain color and
form in its relation to expressing the message of the soul.
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The
Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs by
Robert Beer, $42.00Hardcover - 400 p., 1999
An ultimate sourcebook to the symbolic language of Tibetan art.
Hundreds of author Robert Beer's own exquisite line drawings
depict major Tibetan symbols and motifs--landscapes, deities,
animals, plants, gurus, mudras (ritual hand gestures), dragons
and other mythic creatures--ranging from complex mythological
scenes to small, simple ornaments. Line art throughout.
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Tibetan
Art:Tracing the Development of Spiritual Ideals and Art
in Tibet 600-2000 A. D. by Amy Heller $66.50 Hardcover, 2000
Tibet
in recent centuries has been isolated, yet earlier Tibet was
the crossroads of Asia, linking India, China and Central Asia.These
multiple influences - artistic, religious, economic, and philosophical
- coalesced in the civilisation of Tibet. This book traces
the cultural history of Tibet as revealed by concrete examples
drawn from literature and the fine arts of Tibet and its neighbours...
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Three
Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (The Culture & Civilization
of China) by Richard
M. Barnhart, Nie
Chongzheng, Lang Shaojun, James Cahill, $56.00 Hardcover
- 432 p., 1997
This magnificent book, written by a team of eminent international
scholars, is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting
over a span of some three thousand years. Both accessible to
the general reader and revelatory for the scholar, the book
provides the most up-to-date and detailed history of China`s
pictorial art available today.
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