China boasts a history of art lasting over 5,000 years and embracing a huge diversity of forms - objects of jade, lacquer and porcelain, painted scrolls and fans, sculptures in stone, bronze and wood, and murals. But this rich tradition has not, until now been fully appreciated in the West where scholars have focused attention on the European high arts of painting and sculpture, downplaying arts more highly prized by the Chinese themselves, such as calligraphy. Art in China marks a breakthrou...

* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality...' * With the same disarming force,...

De Engelstalige publicatie Votiv & Totem, Paintings, Sculptures and Watercolours by Peter Otto brengt op een unieke wijze de veelzijdigheid van het werk van de Nederlandse beeldend kunstenaar Peter Otto (1955) in beeld.Peter Otto weet in zijn schilderijen, tekeningen, gipsen, bronzen en keramische beelden een meerduidige wereld op te roepen waarin orde en chaos, goed en kwaad, hoop en vertwijfeling op een weerspannige manier met elkaar verstrengeld zijn.De publicatie bevat tekstbijdragen van ...