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East Asia

A Cultural, Social, and Political History

By: Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Anne Walthall,James B. Palais

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East Asia

A Cultural, Social, and Political History

By: Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Anne Walthall,James B. Palais

A comprehensive history of East Asia, including extensive coverage of the region's cultural, political, economic, and social history. Coverage focuses on the narratives of China, Japan, and Korea while examining the history of each society in a larger, global context."--Back cover.

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Cengage Learning

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0547005342

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9780547005348

Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions

Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty

By: James B. Palais

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Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions

Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty

By: James B. Palais

Seventeenth-century Korea was a country in crisis—successive invasions by Hideyoshi and the Manchus had rocked the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), which already was weakened by maladministration, internecine bureaucratic factionalism, unfair taxation, concentration of wealth, military problems, and other ills. Yu Hyongwon (1622–1673, pen name, Pan’gye), a recluse scholar, responded to this time of chaos and uncertainty by writing his modestly titled Pan’gye surok (The Jottings of Pan’gye), a virtual encyclopedia of Confucian statecraft, designed to support his plan for a revived and reformed Korean system of government. Although Yu was ignored in his own time by all but a few admirers and disciples, his ideas became prominent by the mid-eighteenth century as discussions were underway to solve problems in taxation, military service, and commercial activity. Yu has been viewed by Korean and Japanese scholars as a forerunner of modernization, but in Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions James B. Palais challenges this view, demonstrating that Yu was instead an outstanding example of the premodern tradition. Palais uses Yu Hyongwon’s mammoth, pivotal text to examine the development and shape of the major institutions of Choson dynasty Korea. He has included a thorough treatment of the many Chinese classical and historical texts that Yu used as well as the available Korean primary sources and Korean and Japanese secondary scholarship. Palais traces the history of each of Yu’s subjects from the beginning of the dynasty and pursues developments through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He stresses both the classical and historical roots of Yu’s reform ideas and analyzes the nature and degree of proto-capitalistic changes, such as the use of metallic currency, the introduction of wage labor into the agrarian economy, the development of unregulated commercial activity, and the appearance of industries with more differentiation of labor. Because it contains much comparative material, Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions will be of interest to scholars of China and Japan, as well as to Korea specialists. It also has much to say to scholars of agrarian society, slavery, landholding systems, bureaucracy, and developing economies. Winner of the John Whitney Hall Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies

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University of Washington Press

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0295805110

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9780295805115

Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea

By: James B. Palais

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Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea

By: James B. Palais

James B. Palais theorizes in his important book on Korea that the remarkable longevity of the Yi dynasty (1392–1910) was related to the difficulties the country experienced in adapting to the modern world. He suggests that the aristocratic and hierarchical social system, which was the source of stability of the dynasty, was also the cause of its weakness. The period from 1864 to 1873 was one in which the monarchy attempted to increase and expand central power at the expense of the powerful aristocracy. But the effort failed, and 1874 saw a rebirth of bureaucratic and aristocratic dominance. What this meant when Korea was "opened" two years later to the outside world was that the country was poorly suited to the attainment of modern national objectives—the aggrandizement of state wealth and power—in competition with other nations. Thus any sense of national purpose was subverted, and the leadership could not generate the unified support needed for either modernization or domestic harmony. The consequences for the twentieth-century world have been portentous.

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BRILL

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1684172993

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9781684172993

Modern East Asia

From 1600 : a Cultural, Social, and Political History

By: Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Anne Walthall,James B. Palais

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Modern East Asia

From 1600 : a Cultural, Social, and Political History

By: Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Anne Walthall,James B. Palais

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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0547005369

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9780547005362

The Great Parade

Portrait of the Artist as Clown

By: Pierre Théberge,Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (Parijs),National Gallery of Canada

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The Great Parade

Portrait of the Artist as Clown

By: Pierre Théberge,Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (Parijs),National Gallery of Canada

A beautiful book that showcases how circus figures and artifacts have been portrayed in art over the past two centuries The circus is a dazzling world filled with acrobats and harlequins, tumblers and riders, monsters and celestial creatures. Now this engaging book sets that world in a new light, examining how painters, sculptors, and photographers from the eighteenth century to the present have used the circus as a springboard for their imaginative expression and have envisioned the clown as a metaphor for the modern artist. The book presents more than 175 works by such artists as Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rouault, Picasso, Chagall, and Léger. Some of these are masterful works shown for the first time; these range from the 18-meter stage curtain Picasso designed in 1917 for Erik Satie's ballet Parade to more intimate works such as Nadar and Tournachon's photographs of Pierrot as played by celebrated mime Charles Debureau.

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Yale University Press

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0300103751

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9780300103755

Seurat, 1859-1891

By: Robert L. Herbert,Georges Seurat,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)

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Seurat, 1859-1891

By: Robert L. Herbert,Georges Seurat,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)

A volume which embodies an entire generation of scholarship on the artist. Seurat's brief but brilliant career is traced from his early academic drawings of the 1870s to the paintings of popular entertainments and the serene landscapes of his final years.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0810964104

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9780810964105

Modern East Asia

From 1600 : a Cultural, Social, and Political History

By: Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Anne Walthall,James B. Palais

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Modern East Asia

From 1600 : a Cultural, Social, and Political History

By: Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Anne Walthall,James B. Palais

Designed for the East Asian history course, this text features the latest scholarship on the region and offers a range of cultural, political, economic, and intellectual history. Coverage is balanced among East Asian regions, with approximately 20 percent of the text focused on Korea, an area that has become increasingly important in East Asian courses and in world politics. Special attention is devoted to coverage of gender and material culture-topics that are reinforced through the text's pedagogical features. Color inserts illustrate the rich artistic heritage of East Asia and bolster the coverage of material culture. Connections sections appear throughout the text and provide an international context for the history of East Asia. Some of the topics covered include Buddhism, the Mongols, Imperialism, and World War II. Each chapter includes primary source features that document, among other topics, culture or the arts. Biographical sketches highlight the lives of major figures in East Asian history.

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Houghton Mifflin College Division

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0618133852

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9780618133857

Cézanne to Van Gogh

The Collection of Doctor Gachet

By: Anne Distel,Susan Alyson Stein,Grand Palais (Paris, France),Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

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Cézanne to Van Gogh

The Collection of Doctor Gachet

By: Anne Distel,Susan Alyson Stein,Grand Palais (Paris, France),Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

The fascinating story of Dr. Paul Gachet's collection of works of art by artists such as Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Monet.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870999036

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9780870999031

Corot

By: Gary Tinterow,Michael Pantazzi,Vincent Pomarède,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France),National Gallery of Canada,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Corot

By: Gary Tinterow,Michael Pantazzi,Vincent Pomarède,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France),National Gallery of Canada,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Published to accompany a major exhibition of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's paintings held in Paris and Ottawa during 1996, and forthcoming to New York. From nearly 3,000 paintings by this poetic 19th-century artist, the curators chose 163 works, which are reproduced here along with full art-historical discussions of each. Three major essays chronicle Corot's life and the development of his art; additional essays elucidate the subject of forgeries and describe the collecting of his works. Much original new scholarship is included along with a review of the scholarly literature, a concordance, and a chronology. 9.5x12.5"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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497

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870997696

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9780870997693

The Comprehensive Survival Guide

By: Sam Palais

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The Comprehensive Survival Guide

By: Sam Palais

This book started out as a collection of handouts that I would give to people taking classes with me. The handouts became manuals, and the manuals became a book. This is that book! I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing and illustrating it. Everything contained in this book represents the knowledge, experience, and wisdom handed down to us from our ancestors. As you learn these skills and put them in to practice, you will feel an awakening in yourself that will take you back to the beginning of the dawn of mankind. It is in all of us. It may be dormant, but trust me, it’s in there. Sam

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662426623

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9781662426629

Seurat

By: Robert L. Herbert

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Seurat

By: Robert L. Herbert

The definitive overview of the work and life of Seurat, the great Neo-impressionist artist.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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0870996193

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9780870996191

Cézanne to Van Gogh

The Collection of Doctor Gachet

By: Anne Distel,Susan Alyson Stein,Grand Palais (Paris, France),Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

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Cézanne to Van Gogh

The Collection of Doctor Gachet

By: Anne Distel,Susan Alyson Stein,Grand Palais (Paris, France),Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (1828-1909) was among the first to appreciate the work of Van Gogh, Cezanne, Pissarro, and other Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. A physician and amateur painter, Gachet befriended many artists and bought and received as gifts a large number of artworks, including such masterpieces as Van Gogh's Church at Auvers and Cezanne's A Modern Olympia. Beginning in 1949, Gachet's children made a series of major donations to the French state from their father's extraordinary collection. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, presents the entire Gachet donation of paintings, drawings, prints, and even memorabilia, offering fresh information on the works and the intriguing copies of them. An essay describes the eventful life of the Gachets and their close relationships with such artists as Cezanne and Van Gogh. Newly assembled documentation gives the first comprehensive overview of the original collection as well as previously unpublished information about major works never before known to have been owned by the Gachets.

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0870999044

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9780870999048

Differential Equations, Mechanics, and Computation

By: Richard S. Palais,Robert Andrew Palais

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Differential Equations, Mechanics, and Computation

By: Richard S. Palais,Robert Andrew Palais

This book provides a conceptual introduction to the theory of ordinary differential equations, concentrating on the initial value problem for equations of evolution and with applications to the calculus of variations and classical mechanics, along with a discussion of chaos theory and ecological models. It has a unified and visual introduction to the theory of numerical methods and a novel approach to the analysis of errors and stability of various numerical solution algorithms based on carefully chosen model problems. While the book would be suitable as a textbook for an undergraduate or elementary graduate course in ordinary differential equations, the authors have designed the text also to be useful for motivated students wishing to learn the material on their own or desiring to supplement an ODE textbook being used in a course they are taking with a text offering a more conceptual approach to the subject.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821821385

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9780821821381

Egypt's Dazzling Sun

Amenhotep III and His World

By: Arielle P. Kozloff,Betsy Morrell Bryan,Lawrence Michael Berman,Professor Betsy M Bryan,Elisabeth Delange,Cleveland Museum of Art,Kimbell Art Museum,Kimbell art museum (Fort Worth, Tex.).,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)

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Egypt's Dazzling Sun

Amenhotep III and His World

The fully illustrated catalogue of a major exhibition organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art in collaboration with the Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, Egypt's Dazzling Sun is an exceptional contribution to scholarship on the art and history of the reign of Amenhotep III (1391-1353 BC), the pharaoh who called himself the "Dazzling Sun Disk". Ruling in a period of unprecedented peace, Amenhotep III commissioned splendid temples and sponsored royal workshops in many media. His aesthetic and technical innovations resound in the styles of his direct descendant, Tutankhamen, and in Egyptian art of all centuries. Comprehensive essays along with discussions of 143 objects, drawn from collections in the United States, Europe, and Egypt, offer a remarkably complete view of this golden age of Egyptian art. A range of new research methodologies assist in unveiling the remarkable variety and superb quality of the best work of Amenhotep III's reign.

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0940717166

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9780940717169

Degas

An Exhibition Held at the Galeries Nationales Du Grand Palais, Paris, 9 February-16 May 1988, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 16 June-28 August 1988, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 27 September 1988-8 January 1989

By: Edgar Degas,Jean Sutherland Boggs,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)

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Degas

By: Edgar Degas,Jean Sutherland Boggs,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)

Katalog towarzyszący wystawom w: Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais w Paryżu, 9 luty - 16 maj 1988; National Galery of Canada w Ottawie, 16 czerwiec - 28 sierpień 1988; Metropolitan Museum of Art w Nowym Jorku, 27 wrzesień - 8 styczeń 1989.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870995197

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9780870995194

Turner and the Masters

By: David H. Solkin,Tate Britain (Gallery),Museo del Prado

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Turner and the Masters

By: David H. Solkin,Tate Britain (Gallery),Museo del Prado

J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) is widely regarded as the greatest painter Britain has ever produced. Despite the many books and exhibitions that have been devoted to him, there is one aspect of his extraordinary oeuvre that has never been thoroughly examined. Uniquely in the history of European art, he took on all comers, past and present, that he considered worthy of a challenge, creating his own images in their styles. These works were both acts of homage and a sophisticated form of art criticism, demonstrating his understanding of great art and his ability to equal or better the most celebrated exponents of the landscape tradition. No artist, however revered, was considered beyond challenge. This unique habit is clearly a key to understanding Turner's art, yet the issue is one that has so far never been thoroughly addressed on Turner and on British art of the 18th and 19th centuries. In "Turner and the Masters" leading authorities explore this fascinating aspect of his career, --

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Tate Publishing(UK)

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1854377981

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9781854377982

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East Asia

East Asia

Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions

Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions

Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea

Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea

Modern East Asia

Modern East Asia

The Great Parade

The Great Parade

Seurat, 1859-1891

Seurat, 1859-1891

Modern East Asia

Modern East Asia

Cézanne to Van Gogh

Cézanne to Van Gogh

Corot

Corot

The Comprehensive Survival Guide

The Comprehensive Survival Guide

Seurat

Seurat

Cézanne to Van Gogh

Cézanne to Van Gogh

Differential Equations, Mechanics, and Computation

Differential Equations, Mechanics, and Computation

Egypt's Dazzling Sun

Egypt's Dazzling Sun

Degas

Degas

Turner and the Masters

Turner and the Masters

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