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20 POSTCARDS OF KAMAKURA

*NEW*: 2025 ANTIQUES: CHINESE ARTS AUCTION RECORDS 2024.1.1-2024.12.31
2025 Gudong Paimai Nianjian 2025 古董拍賣年鑑.

Abe, Stanley:
- ORDINARY IMAGES

AN ACCOUNT OF TWO VOYAGES - BACKHOFF AND WAGENER

Acharya, Sanjay:
- BHUTAN

Adams, Edward B:
- ART TREASURES OF SEOUL

Alexander, William & Mason, George:
- VIEWS OF 18TH CENTURY CHINA: COSTUMES, HISTORY, CUSTOMS

Allen, H. M. ed:
- LETTERS OF P. S. ALLEN

Andrews, F. H:
- WALL PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT SHRINES IN CENTRAL ASIA

ANNINGHE LIUYU DA SHI MU
(Remains of Large Stone Tombs Found on the Anning River) 安寧河流域大石窟.

Yuhas, Louise ed:
- ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 25

ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 33

Asahi Shimbun ed:
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER SIX
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER NINE
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER TEN - TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ISSUE
- THIS IS JAPAN 1965 - NUMBER 12
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER 13
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER 16

Asian Art Museum:
- 5,000 YEARS OF KOREAN ART

THE ASIATIC JOURNAL AND MONTHLY MISCELLANY VOL II: THIRD SERIES

HANTS1
Han Meilin: TIAN SHU. The Sealed Book. 天書 。 韓美林 著. Tianjin, 2007. 432 pp. B/w illustrations throughout. 28x21 cm. Wrappers.
GBP 60.00
Uncannily or, perhaps, pointedly bearing the same name as the famous contemporary artist, Xu Bing's 'Tianshu' or 'Book from the Sky', this may also be seen as a work of language-driven conceptual art but because it is presented in the context of relatively traditional calligraphy and epigraphy it will be unlikely to be widely appreciated in the western art world. Over a period of 34 years, Han Meilin collected rare glyphs from early Chinese inscriptions of all kinds - from Oracle bones to bronzes and stone carvings - particularly glyphs with figurative forms but regardless of whether these inscribed characters had been deciphered. He then assembled them in this extensive collation, occasionally intermingled with his own figurative additions. He has thus produced a mysterious 'Text from Heaven', one that is hard to place - creative epigraphy?, scholarship? art? craft? It is undoubtedly highly interesting and graphically engaging. All 'text' in Chinese. Out-of-print and hard to find.
Subjects: Calligraphy
Item 322 in List 214.
URL for this record: hanshan.com/?h/HANTS1.HTM
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