Art 3534 - Asian Art History Dr. Janet Montgomery
Suggested Books on Asian Art available at Appalachian State University
Sources and Strategies for Finding Library Information
- Electronic Reference Sources
- Selected Electronic Journals and Databases for Asian Art Study
- Website Examples for Asian Art Study
- Background Information
- Library Catalog
- Citing Your Sources
Arts and crafts of India / Ilay Cooper, John Gillow ; photographs by Barry Dawson / NK1047 .C66 1996
Exploring India's sacred art : selected writings of Stella Kramrisch / Edited and with a biographical essay by Barbara Stoler Miller / N8195.A5 K7 1983
The art of India ; traditions of Indian sculpture, painting, and architecture / Stella Kramrisch / N7301 .K68
Indian art : a concise history / Roy C. Craven / N7301 .C7 1997
Indian art / Vidya Dehejia / N7301 .D33 1997
History of Indian and Indonesian art / by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy / N7260 .C65 1986
Dhurries : history, pattern, technique, identification / Nada Chaldecott / NK2876.A1 C43 2003
Hindu India : from Khajuraho to the temple city of Madurai / Henri Stierlin / NA6002 .S75 1998
Indian sculpture : a catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection / by Pratapaditya Pal / NB1002 .L67 1986
Lives of Indian images / Richard H. Davis / NB1912.H55 D38 1997
Graphicswallah : graphics in India / Keith Lovegrove ; photography by Andrew Hasson / NC998.6.I4 L68 2003
Street graphics India / Barry Dawson / NC998.6.I6 D38 1999
In the realm of gods and kings : arts of India / edited by Andrew Topsfield / N7301 .I425 2004
Desire and devotion : art from India, Nepal, and Tibet ; in the John and Berthe Ford collection /
Pratapaditya Pal ; with an essay by Hiram Woodward / N7300 .P35 2001
The artists of Nathadwara : the practice of painting in Rajasthan / Tryna Lyons / N8191.I52 R35 2004
Devi : the great goddess : female divinity in South Asian art / Vidya Dehejia / N8195.A3 W384 1999
Court painting in Rajasthan / edited by Andrew Topsfield / ND1007.R3 C68 2000
Indian contemporary painting / Neville Tuli / ND1004 .T86 1998
Traditional jewelry of India / Oppi Untracht / NK7376 .U57 1997
Sari to sarong : five hundred years of Indian and Indonesian textile exchange / Robyn Maxwell / NK8876.A1 M39 2003
Textile arts of India : Kokyo Hatanaka collection / NK8976.A1 I5313 1996
Embroidery from India and Pakistan / Sheila Paine / NK9276.A1 P35 2001
India through the lens : photography, 1840-1911 / Vidya Dehejia / TR103 .I53 2000
Traces of India : photography, architecture, and the politics of representation, 1850-1900 / edited by Maria Antonella Pelizzari / TR103 .T72 2003
Painting for the Mughal Emperor : the art of the book, 1560-1660 / Susan Stronge / ND1002 .S77 2002
India modern : traditional forms and contemporary design / Herbert J.M. Ypma / NK1476.A1 Y76 2000
From the ocean of painting : India's popular paintings, 1589 to the present /
Barbara Rossi ; with contributions by Roy C. Craven, Jr. and Stuart Cary Welch / NK1476.A1 R67 1998
Luxury goods from India : the art of the Indian cabinet-maker / Amin Jaffer / NK2647 .J34 2002
Flowers underfoot : Indian carpets of the Mughal era / Daniel Walker / NK2876 .W36 1997
CHINESE ART
The arts of China / Michael Sullivan / N7340 .S92 1999
The three perfections : Chinese painting, poetry, and calligraphy / Michael Sullivan / ND1040 .S78 1999
Chinese art / Mary Tregear / N7340 .T73 1997
The art and architecture of China / Laurence Sickman and Alexander Soper / N7340 .S46 1960
The arts of China / William Watson / N7343 .W38 1995
Art in China / Craig Clunas / N7340 .C59 1997
The art of contemporary Chinese woodcuts / a portfolio assembled by Christer von der Burg / NE1183.3 .A78 2003
Art and aesthetics in Chinese popular prints : selections from the Muban Foundation collection / Ellen Johnston Laing / NE1183.25 .L35 2002
Traditional architecture in China / Almut E.I. Bettels / NA1540 .B48 2002
Architectural encounters with essence and form in modern China / Peter G. Rowe and Seng Kuan / NA1545 .R68 2002
Return of the Buddha : the Qingzhou discoveries / NB1912.B83 R8313 2002
Taoism and the arts of China / Stephen Little with Shawn Eichman / N8199.T3 L58 2000
Homage to heaven, homage to earth : Chinese treasures of the Royal Ontario Museum / N7342 .R69 1992
Appreciating China : gifts from Ruth and Bruce Dayton / by Robert D. Jacobsen / N7342 .J33 2002
Imperial silks Ch'ing dynasty textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts / Robert D. Jacobsen / Oversize NK4783.A1 J33 2000
China art now / Michel Nuridsany / N7345.6 .N87 2004
Inside/out : new Chinese art / edited by Gao Minglu / N7345 .I58 1998
Between past and future : new photography and video from China /
Wu Hung and Christopher Phillips; with contributions by Melissa Chiu, Lisa Corrin, and Stephanie Smith / TR645.C552 D389 2004
Exhibiting experimental art in China / Wu Hung / N7345 .W814 2000
Transience : Chinese experimental art at the end of the twentieth century / Wu Hung / N7345 .W82 1999
The Wu Liang Shrine : the ideology of early Chinese pictorial art / Wu Hung / NB1280 .W77 1989
Beyond representation : Chinese painting and calligraphy, 8th-14th century / Wen C. Fong / ND1043.3 .F66 1992
Six contemporary Chinese women artists / essay by Lucy Lim / ND1045 .L497 1991x
Poetry and painting in Song China : the subtle art of dissent / Alfreda Murck / ND1043.4 .M87 2000
Chinese ivories : from the Shang to the Qing : an exhibition /
organized by the Oriental Ceramic Society jointly with the British Museum /
NK5983 .C48 1984
Chinese art and culture / Robert L. Thorp and Richard Ellis Vinograd / NX583.A1 T49 2000
The embodied image : Chinese calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection / NK3634.A2 H375 1999
Austere luminosity of Chinese classical furniture / Sarah Handler / NK2668 .H36 2001
Chinese style : the art of living / Bradley Quinn ; foreword by Ou Baholyodhin ; special photography by Jan Baldwin ; styling by Lyndsay Milne /
NK2083 .Q55 2002
Splendors of China's Forbidden City : the glorious reign of Emperor Qianlong / Chuimei Ho and Bennet Bronson / NK1068 .H625 2004
JAPANESE ART
Japanese Art / Joan Stanley-Baker / N7350 .S7 2000
The Japanese print : a historical guide / Hugo Munsterberg / NE1310 .M86 1999
Symbols of Japan : thematic motifs in art and design / Merrily Baird / N7350 .B233 2001
Japonisme : cultural crossings between Japan and the West / Lionel Lambourne / N7429 .L36 2005
History of Japanese art / Penelope Mason / N7350.M26 1993
Beauty & desire in Edo period Japan / Gary Hickey / NE1321.8 .H49 1998
Hokusai : prints and drawings / Matthi Forrer / NE1325.K3 A4 1991
Hiroshige : prints and drawings / Matthi Forrer / NE1325.A5 A4 1997
Heroes & ghosts : Japanese prints by Kuniyoshi, 1797-1861 / Robert Schaap / NE1325.U78 A4 1998
Japanese studio crafts : tradition and the avant-garde / Rupert Faulkner / NK1071 .F37 1995
Ainu : spirit of a northern people / edited by William W. Fitzhugh and Chisato O. Dubreuil / DS832 .A55 1999
Yoshitoshi's women : the woodblock-print series F¯uzoku sanj¯unis¯o / John Stevenson / NE1325.T76 S74 1995
Timeless beauty : traditional Japanese art from the Montgomery collection / essays by Edmund de Waal / NK1071 .T56 2002
The graphic spirit of Japan / Richard S. Thornton / NK1484.A1 T47 1991
Bridge of dreams : the Mary Griggs Burke collection of Japanese art / Miyeko Murase / N7352 .M84 2000
Chikubushima : deploying the sacred arts in Momoyama Japan / Andrew M. Watsky / N7356.C48 W38 2004
The floating world of Ukiyo-e : shadows, dreams, and substance / essays by Sandy Kita / N7353.6.U35 F58 2001
The arts of Japan : an international symposium : / edited by Miyeko Murase and Judith G. Smith / N7352 .A925 2000
Turning point : Oribe and the arts of sixteenth-century Japan / edited by Miyeko Murase / N7353.4 .T87 2003
Edo, art in Japan 1615-1868 / Robert T. Singer with John T. Carpenter / N7353.5 .S656 1998
The colours of light / Tadao Ando architecture ; Richard Pare photography ; Tom Heneghan introduction / NA1559.A5 A4 1996
Shigeru Ban / Matilda McQuaid ; [foreword by Frei Otto] / NA1559.B26 M37 2003
Japan graphics / [project, Tomoko Sakamoto and Ramon Prat ; graphic design, Ramon Prat and Sandra Neumaier ; translation, Sanae Tomari] /
NC998.6.J3 J36 2002
Manga : sixty years of Japanese comics / Paul Gravett / PN6790.J3 G73 2004
How to look at Japanese art / Stephen Addiss / N7350 .A375 1996
Art of the Lotus Sutra : Japanese masterpieces / edited by Bunsaku Kurata and Yoshir¯o Tamura / N8193.J3 H5613 1987
Miracles & mischief : Noh and Ky¯ogen theater in Japan / Sharon Sadako Takeda / NK4784.A1 T34 2002
The kimono inspiration : art and art-to-wear in America / edited by Rebecca A.T. Stevens and Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada / NK4860.5.U6 K56 1996
Yoichi Ohira : a phenomenon in glass / Yoichi Ohira / NK5198.O45 A4 2002
Japanese netsuke / Julia Hutt ; photography by Ian Thomas / NK6050 .H875 2003
The history of Japanese photography / Anne Wilkes Tucker / TR105 .H57 2003
Daido Moriyama / Kazuo Nishii / TR654 .N55 2001
Traditional Japanese design : five tastes / by Michael Dunn / NK1071 .D86 2001
Snow, wave, pine : traditional patterns in Japanese design / photographs and captions, Sadao Hibi ; text, Motoji Niwa / NK1484.A1 H5313 2001
Wonderwall : Masamichi Katayama projects / NK2084.Z9 K382 2003
ASIAN ART (GENERAL OR MORE THAN ONE COUNTRY)
Silken threads : a history of embroidery in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam / Young Yang Chung / NK9272 .C48 2005
Art of Southeast Asia / by Maud Girard-Geslan [et al.] / N7311 .A7613 1998
The art of East Asia / Gabriele Fahr-Becker (editor) / N7337 .A78 1999
Modern Asian art / John Clark / N7260 .C55 1998
Buddha : radiant awakening / editor, Jackie Menzies / N8193.2 .B83 2001
The jewelry of southeast Asia / Anne Richter / NK7377 .R53 2000
Pacific jewelry and adornment / Roger Neich and Fuli Pereira ; photographs by Krzysztof Pfeiffer / NK7389.9.A1 N45 2004
10 x 10 / [commissioning editor, Vivian Constantinopoulos ; senior editor, Iona Baird] / NA680 .A14 2000
Pacific edge : contemporary architecture on the Pacific Rim / Peter Zellner / NA1460 .Z45 1998
Worshiping Siva and Buddha : the temple art of East Java / Ann R. Kinney with Marijke J. Klokke, Lydia Kieven ; photographs by Rio Helmi /
NB1912.H55 K56 2003
Buddhist art and architecture / Robert E. Fisher / N8193.A4 F57 1993
The art of Indian Asia, its mythology and transformations /
Heinrich Robert Zimmer, completed and edited by Joseph Campbell; with photos. by Eliot Elisofon and others / N7301 .Z49 1960
Textiles of Southeast Asia : tradition, trade, and transformation / by Robyn Maxwell / NK8977.A1 M39 2003
East Asian lacquer : the Florence and Herbert Irving collection / James C.Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford / NK9900.7.E15 M47 1991
APT 2002 : Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art / edited by Lynne Seear / NX572.A1 A85 2002
The way of the brush : painting techniques of China and Japan / Fritz van Briessen / ND1040 .B69 1998
The Markarian album : the Richard R. Markarian collection of Oriental rugs / NK2808 .D46 1988
Later ceramics in South-East Asia, sixteenth to twentieth centuries / Barbara Harrisson / NK4163 .H36 1995
Asian traditions in clay : the Hauge gifts / Louise Allison Cort, Massumeh Farhad, Ann C. Gunter / NK4147 .C67 2000
Living with decorative textiles : tribal art from Africa, Asia and the Americas / Nicholas Barnard ; photographs by James Merrell / NK2115.5.F3 B37 1995
Media worlds : anthropology on new terrain / edited by Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin / P94.6 .M426 2002
Grove Dictionary of Art
Use keyword searches to find definitions and articles about art including much information about Asian art. In addition to searching, click on "Geography" on the Grove homepage, then on " East Asia ," and look at the matching articles on the right hand side of the page.
ARTstor
A database of images of art and archeology. You can do keyword searches by artist or creator, title, subject, etc. Also, browse the ARTstor collections, including the Huntington Archive of Asian Art and the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive.
Selected Electronic Journals and Databases for Asian Art Study
Arts and Humanities Search
Includes citations (not the full text, but just a citation for an article) for over 1,300 arts and humanities journals
JSTOR
Includes full-text articles from journals including many focusing on art and on Asian studies. Examples of journals in JSTOR are the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, College Art Journal, Monumenta Nipponica, The Burlington Magazine, Near Eastern Archaeology, The Journal of Asian Studies , and many more.
Art Full Text
Includes 120 journal titles in full-text, and abstracts for articles in 300 additional journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.
For more databases which can be used to find journal articles in Art, go to
http://www.library.appstate.edu/vdb/by_subject/subjectreport05?search_subject=Art
Website Examples for Asian Art Study
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm?HomePageLink=toah_l
Look at the "Special Topics Categories" for Asian Art
Art History Resources: Resources for the Study of Art History: Part 16 - Asian Art
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks3.html
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
http://www.asianart.org/
The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art
http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu
Click on the link to "Projects" and there are resources such as maps, web resources, and definitions
Taoism and the Arts of China : The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/taoism/
Background Information
(General and Subject Encyclopedias)
For other General and Subject Encyclopedias see the Art Subject Guide.
Library Catalog
For more information about library materials, please check the Library Catalog at http://wncln.wncln.org/
The following Library of Congress Subject Headings may be helpful in finding information: Enter each item as a Subject search:
Art, Japanese
Art, Chinese
Art, Indic
Art Japanese Exhibitions
Art Chinese Exhibitions
Art Indic Exhibitions
The following keywords may also help you:
| art | design | calligraphy | Kimono | East Asian art |
| arts | architecture | silks | glass | jewelry |
| crafts | Buddhism | textiles | photography | embroidery |
| sculpture | Hinduism | woodcuts | Buddha | lacquer |
| ceramics | Taoism | symbols | ivory | clay |
| history | women artists | prints | dhurries | |
| graphics | painting | Ukiyo-e | South Asian art |
Citing Your Sources
As you gather information you will need to cite the material that you find. If you are citing resources from a database or the internet the library has an online style guide to help you. Dr. Montgomery requests American Psychological Association or APA Style formatting for the citations in this paper.
How To Cite Sources
Compiled and edited by Georgie Donovan, donovangl@appstate.edu and Katherine Alford, alfordka@appstate.edu