Description
Arts of Asia Publications Ltd, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Published 1987. Wraps, 144 pp.; 30 cm; profusely illustrated throughout with color photographs of Asian and Himalayan art and antiques.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers picturing a 16th-century Tibetan gilt-copper ritual crown set with turquoise and coral against a black ground. Mild shelf wear with light bumping and creasing along the edges of the covers. Binding tight. Pages clean. Otherwise unmarked.This issue's theme is 'From India to the Himalayas'. The cover image is a 16th-century Tibetan gilt-copper ritual crown set with semi-precious stones, from the Newark Museum's Tibetan collection.Arts of Asia was founded in Hong Kong in 1971 by Tuyet Nguyet (1934-2020), a Vietnamese-born journalist, and her husband Stephen Markbreiter (1921-2014), an English architect; she edited the magazine for forty-six years. The publication combines scholarly writing on Asian art with detailed reporting on the Asian art market, and by the mid-1970s had built an international subscriber base across the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan.Contents: The Lost University of Vikramsila (K.M. Srivastava); Visions of Tibet (Barry J. Soloman); Phur-pa: Tibetan Ritual Daggers (Amy Heller and Thomas Marcotty); Culture in Microcosm: The Nepalese Ink-Well (Mary Shepherd Slusser and Manuela Fuller); The Mongolian Saddle (Ron Edwards); Imagery and Metaphors: Contemporary Printmaking in India (Charles Stroh); Ting Ware: The White Queen Among Porcelains (Liu Liang-Yu); salesroom news; book reviews; collectors' columns.