The Resource Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : collection highlights
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : collection highlights
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The item Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : collection highlights represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Santa Clara County Library District.This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : collection highlights represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Santa Clara County Library District.
This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
- Summary
- Every year, thousands of visitors flock to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the largest museum devoted exclusively to the arts of Asia in the United States. Featuring more than 18,000 artworks, the museum's world-class collection highlights the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture. This book presents two hundred and thirty exemplary works spanning both ancient and modern times. Among its many treasures, readers will find a Japanese clay jar from 3000-2000 BCE, a Chinese bronze Buddha dating to 338, a seventeenth-century Indian painting from the Shahnama (Book of Kings), a mid-twentieth-century Korean wrapping cloth, and a new Thai work made from textile, window mesh, safety pins, and amulets. A collaboration between museum curators, artists, educators, and collectors, the book also takes an in-depth look at fourteen masterpieces selected for their beauty, rarity, and historical importance. Stunning full-color photographs and new texts-including a foreword by museum director Ja Xu-offer fresh perspectives on both ancient and contemporary objects. A handsome addition to any art history collection, this volume is an essential resource for museum visitors as well as anyone interested in Asian art
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xi, 324 pages
- Note
- "Jay Xu, director."
- Isbn
- 9780939117840
- Label
- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : collection highlights
- Title
- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
- Title remainder
- collection highlights
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Every year, thousands of visitors flock to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the largest museum devoted exclusively to the arts of Asia in the United States. Featuring more than 18,000 artworks, the museum's world-class collection highlights the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture. This book presents two hundred and thirty exemplary works spanning both ancient and modern times. Among its many treasures, readers will find a Japanese clay jar from 3000-2000 BCE, a Chinese bronze Buddha dating to 338, a seventeenth-century Indian painting from the Shahnama (Book of Kings), a mid-twentieth-century Korean wrapping cloth, and a new Thai work made from textile, window mesh, safety pins, and amulets. A collaboration between museum curators, artists, educators, and collectors, the book also takes an in-depth look at fourteen masterpieces selected for their beauty, rarity, and historical importance. Stunning full-color photographs and new texts-including a foreword by museum director Ja Xu-offer fresh perspectives on both ancient and contemporary objects. A handsome addition to any art history collection, this volume is an essential resource for museum visitors as well as anyone interested in Asian art
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 709.5
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- N7262
- LC item number
- .A8815 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- bibliography
- catalogs
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/organizationName
- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
- Art, Asian
- Art
- Art
- Art, Asian
- California
- Label
- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : collection highlights
- Note
- "Jay Xu, director."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 317) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xi, 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9780939117840
- Lccn
- 2017038832
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40028633198
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- on1001968132
- (OCoLC)1001968132
- Label
- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : collection highlights
- Note
- "Jay Xu, director."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 317) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xi, 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9780939117840
- Lccn
- 2017038832
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40028633198
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- on1001968132
- (OCoLC)1001968132
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