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Walls inspire, Roofs aspire, Chinese Art will never tire
More than structures, Chinese designs are cultural expressions - rich with history, spirituality, and artistry - that have inspired painters, poets, and artisans for centuries.
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African Art: Ancient Inspirations, Modern Expressions
From Mauritania to South Africa and from the Ivory Coast to Somalia, statues, masks, jewelry, pottery and tapestries compose a variety of daily and ritual objects springing from these richly varied societies.
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Exploring Egyptian Artistic Legacy: A Journey through Iconic Pharaonic Masterpieces
Egyptian art is perhaps the most impersonal that exists. The artist effaces himself. But he has such an innate sense of life, a sense so directly moved and so limpid that everything of life which he describes seems defined by that sense, to issue from the natural gesture, from the exact attitude, in which one no longer sees stiffness.
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The Language of Gesture: Exploring Symbolism in Islamic Sculptures
Spreading from the Arabian Peninsula, the proselyte believers conquered, in a few centuries, a territory spreading from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
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Discovering the Multifaceted World of Persian Art and its Significance
The 1001 Treasures
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Art of Islam – Splendours of Islam
Lively and coloured, Islamic art mirrors the richness of these people whose common denominator was the belief in one singular truth: the absolute necessity of creating works whose beauty equaled their respect for God.
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A complete panorama of historical Chinese arts and civilization
Dealing not only with architecture, sculpture, and painting, but also with bronze and ceramics, this text offers a complete panorama of Chinese arts and civilisation.
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Art of Vietnam
The text below is the excerpt from the book Art of Vietnam (ASIN: B07C2JLY7X), written by Catherine Noppe and Jean-François Hubert, published by Parkstone International. Situated on the eastern extremity of what is known as Southeast Asia, Vietnam finds itself at the confluence of two worlds. With China to the north and Laos and Combodia to the west, Vietnam has long been subject to a double-influence; one nicely captured by the French term, first introduced in the 1840s , “Indochine” (Indo—China). Endowed with a coastline more than two thousand kilometers long, Vietnam’s eastern seaboard gives it access not only to the Philippines and Indonesia, but also to China and Japan, commercial opportunities that were…
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