Vietnam Visual Arts in History, Religion and Culture – English Book on Vietnamese Art History(Preorder)

A comprehensive English-language book on Vietnamese visual arts, exploring architecture, sculpture, lacquer, ceramics, painting, woodblock printing, metalwork, and more through history, religion, and culture.

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Vietnam Visual Arts in History, Religion and Culture is a landmark English-language book introducing the history of visual arts among the Kinh people in Vietnam. Inspired by Vietnam’s rich artistic traditions across centuries, this volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of Vietnamese art through the lenses of history, religion, and culture.

This book is a revised and expanded edition of Arts of Vietnam 1009–1945, first published in 2013. With updated research, new archaeological findings, and more than 300 full-color illustrations, it provides readers with a deeper and more vivid understanding of Vietnam’s artistic heritage.

Across 11 chapters, the book traces the development of Vietnamese visual arts in many forms, including architecture, sculpture, ceramics, lacquer, furniture, mother-of-pearl inlay, woodblock printing, painting, jade and ivory carving, and metalwork in bronze, gold, and silver. Each chapter provides a concise historical context, helping readers understand how artistic objects were shaped by belief systems, cultural values, craft traditions, and changing historical conditions.

The book also gives special attention to newly discovered materials, archaeological research, important monuments, and works by both known and anonymous artists. Each artifact is studied not only as an object of beauty, but also as a window into Vietnamese civilization.

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