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Asian And Pacific American Heritage

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. A rather broad term, Asian/Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia

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Online Asian Art Resources

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Asian Art Museum
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture serves as a bridge of understanding between Asia and the United States and between the diverse cultures of Asia.
San Antonio Museum of Art
Spanning 6,000 years of Asian art history, this collection is internationally recognized as a center of excellence.
Asian American Artists and Selected Works in the Smithsonian
This link spotlights the many works by and about Asian-Americans in the collections of the Smithsonian.

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On this page, you will find links to books in the library catalog and Asian and Asian American art resources available online. You are viewing the Asian Art page of the libguide.

Art Books

The Printer's Eye by Melissa M. Rinne; David Waterhouse; Julia Meech
Call Number: ART 709.5491 WILLE 2015

ISBN: 9780939117604

Featuring over 100 rare block prints from the "floating world", this book will please experts and art lovers as well as casual readers.
Flower Power by Dany Chan; Jay Xu (Contribution by)
Call Number: ART 730.97949 NORTON 2015

ISBN: 9780939117796

Artworks drawn from San Francisco's Museum of Asian Art celebrate the beauty of flowers such as the lotus in a variety of media.
Buddhist Art of Myanmar by Sylvia Fraser-Lu (Editor); Donald M. Stadtner (Editor); U. Tun Aung Chain (Contribution by); Jacques Leider (Contribution by); Patrick Pranke (Contribution by); Robert Brown (Contribution by); Heidi Tan (Contribution by); Adriana Proser (Contribution by)
Call Number: ART 709.5 COMPANION 2015

ISBN: 9780300209457

A stunning showcase of exceptional and rare works of Buddhist art, including textiles, sculptures and paintings.
Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon by Adriana Proser
Call Number: ART 709.5 PROSER 2020

ISBN: 9783777434339

Publication Date: 2020-04-17
Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas
Call Number: ART 709.95 THOMAS 2018

ISBN: 9780500204405

Publication Date: 2018-10-16
The Art of Cloth in Mughal India by Sylvia Houghteling
Call Number: ART 391.02209 HOUGHTELING 2022

ISBN: 9780691215785

Publication Date: 2022-03-29
The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985 by Kazi Khaleed Ashraf (Contribution by); Nonica Datta (Contribution by); Prajna Desai (Contribution by); Da Hyung Jeong (Contribution by); Farhan Karim (Contribution by); Evangelos Kotsioris (Contribution by); Saloni Mathur (Contribution by); Rahul Mehrotra (Contribution by); Mrnalini Rajagopalan (Contribution by); Peter Scriver (Contribution by); Devika Singh (Contribution by); Amit Srivastava (Contribution by); Martino Stierli (Contribution by); Randhir Singh (Photographer)
Call Number: ART 724.6 STIERLI 2022

ISBN: 9781633451247

Publication Date: 2022-03-22
Persia by Jeffrey Spier (Editor); Miguel John Versluys (Contribution by); Antigoni Zournatzi (Contribution by); Timothy Potts (Editor); Sara E. Cole (Editor); Touraj Daryaee (Contribution by); Lucinda Dirven (Contribution by); Robert Rollinger (Contribution by)
Call Number: 935.7 PERSIA 2022

ISBN: 9781606066805

Publication Date: 2022-04-26
India: a History in Objects (British Museum) by T. Richard Blurton
Call Number: 954 BLURTON 2022

ISBN: 9780500480649

Publication Date: 2022-09-27
Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Call Number: 677.39 SILK 2021

ISBN: 9780500480656

Publication Date: 2021-11-09

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Subjects: Arts & Leisure, History

Tags: asia, China, India, japan