Art and Archaeology – May 2012
- Primitive art / Franz Boas.
- Contemporary Asian art / by Melissa Chiu, Benjamin Genocchio.
- Il museo orientale di Venezia / Nino Barbantini.
- Mongolian buddhist art : masterpieces from the museums of Mongolia (2 volumes) / D. Narantuya, Sh. Enkhtuya editors: Zara Fleming, J. Lkhagvademchig Shastri.
- Treasured objects : Armenian life in the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago / Vazken Khatchig Davidian, Susan Paul Pattie, Gagik Stepan-Sarkissian, editors.
- Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection : Wou Lien-Pai Museum.
- Zhongguo yuan lin. English.;Chinese gardens : in search of landscape paradise / Lou Qingxi translated by Zhang Lei and Yu Hong.
- 佛印輝寶 : 中國佛教寺廟寶藏 = Treasures of buddhist art : treasures from Chinese buddhist temples / [作者許志平作].
- Art by the book : painting manuals and the leisure life in late Ming China / J. P. Park.
- Japanese art and design / editor Joe Earle introduction Gregory Irvine texts Joe Earle, Rupert Faulkner, Verity Wilson, Rose Kerr, Craig Clunas.
- Harunobu and his age the development of colour printing in Japan [by] D.B. Waterhouse / Waterhouse, David B.
- The transmission of Chinese idealist painting to Japan : notes on the early phase (1661-1799)
- Obtaining images : art, production and display in Edo Japan / Timon Screech.
- A lacquer legacy at Kew : the Japanese collection of John J. Quin / Hew D.V. Prendergast, Helena F. Jaeschke, Naomi Rumball.
- Potters and patrons in Edo period Japan : Takatori ware and the Kuroda domain / Andrew L. Maske.
- Chʻilchang / [kŭl Chŏng Yŏng-hwan ; sajin Paek Chi-sun].칠장 / [글 정 영환 ; 사진 백 지순]
- Magie van de vrouw / Anne Vanderstraete [auteurs Anne van Cutsem-Vanderstraete, Stanley Bremer redactie Edward de Bock fotografie Mauro Magliani en Barbara Piovan, Don Tuttle].
- Carving devotion in the Jain caves at Ellora / by Lisa N. Owen.
- Visions of Mughal India The Collection of Howard Hodgkin.
- The Golden Temple of Amritsar : reflections of the past (1808-1959) / Amandeep Singh Madra & Parmjit Singh.
- Indian fashion / Hindol Sengupta foreword by Ritu Kumar.
- Le Proche-Orient de Justinien aux abassides : peuplement et dynamiques spatiales : actes du colloque Continuités de l’occupation entre les périodes byzantine et abbasside au Proche-Orient, VIIe-IXe siècles, Paris, 18-20 octobre 2007 / édité par A. Borrut … [et al.].
- The art and architecture of Twelver Shiʻism : Iraq, Iran and the Indian sub-continent / by James W. Allan.
- Told, untold, retold : 23 stories of journeys through time and space / [curators, Sam Bardouil, Till Fellrath].
- Sylloge of Islamic coins in the Ashmolean. Vol. 1, The pre-reform coinage of the early Islamic period / by Stephen Album and Tony Goodwin.
- Textiles of the Islamic world / John Gillow.
- Lexicon of arms and armor from Iran : a study of symbols and terminology / Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani.
- The embodied icon : liturgical vestments and sacramental power in Byzantium / Warren T. Woodfin.
- Biblical Bethsaida : an archaeological study of the first century / Carl E. Savage.
- Making history : African collectors and the canon of African art : Femi Akinsanya African Art Collection / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie.