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Author : Frederick Harris
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9784805310984
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukiyo-e written by Frederick Harris and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of Japanese woodblock printing, known as ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), reflects the rich history and way of life in Japan hundreds of years ago. Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese Print takes a thematic approach to this iconic Japanese art form, considering prints by subject matter: geisha and courtesans, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, erotica, nature, historical subjects and even images of foreigners in Japan. An artist himself, author Frederick Harris—a well-known American collector who lived in Japan for 50 years—pays special attention to the methods and materials employed in Japanese printmaking. The book traces the evolution of ukiyo-e from its origins in metropolitan Edo (Tokyo) art culture as black and white illustrations, to delicate two-color prints and multicolored designs. Advice to admirers on how to collect, care for, view and buy Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints rounds out this book of charming, carefully selected prints.

Author : Roni Neuer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711200210
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukiyo-e written by Roni Neuer and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of nearly four hundred Japanese woodcuts from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries is accompanied by technical and biographical data on the artist.

Author : Sandy Kita
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Floating World of Ukiyo-E written by Sandy Kita and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany an exhibition of the Library of Congress' collections of Ukiyo-e prints.

Author : Julie Nelson Davis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824854403
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partners in Print written by Julie Nelson Davis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling account of collaboration in the genre of ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) offers a new approach to understanding the production and reception of print culture in early modern Japan. It provides a corrective to the perception that the ukiyo-e tradition was the product of the creative talents of individual artists, revealing instead the many identities that made and disseminated printed work. Julie Nelson Davis demonstrates by way of examples from the later eighteenth century that this popular genre was the result of an exchange among publishers, designers, writers, carvers, printers, patrons, buyers, and readers. By recasting these works as examples of a network of commercial and artistic cooperation, she offers a nuanced view of the complexity of this tradition and expands our understanding of the dynamic processes of production, reception, and intention in floating world print culture. Four case studies give evidence of what constituted modes of collaboration among artistic producers in the period. In each case Davis explores a different configuration of collaboration: that between a teacher and a student, two painters and their publishers, a designer and a publisher, and a writer and an illustrator. Each investigates a mode of partnership through a single work: a specially commissioned print, a lavishly illustrated album, a printed handscroll, and an inexpensive illustrated novel. These case studies explore the diversity of printed things in the period ranging from expensive works made for a select circle of connoisseurs to those meant to be sold at a modest price to a large audience. They take up familiar subjects from the floating world—connoisseurship, beauty, sex, and humor—and explore multiple dimensions of inquiry vital to that dynamic culture: the status of art, the evaluation of beauty, the representation of sexuality, and the tension between mind and body. Where earlier studies of woodblock prints have tended to focus on the individual artist, Partners in Print takes the subject a major step forward to a richer picture of the creative process. Placing these works in their period context not only reveals an aesthetic network responsive to and shaped by the desires of consumers in a specific place and time, but also contributes to a larger discussion about the role of art and the place of the material text in the early modern world.

Author : Tadashi Kobayashi
Publisher : Kodansha
ISBN 13 : 9784770021823
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukiyo-e written by Tadashi Kobayashi and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1997 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of the history of Japanese woodblock prints, This works illustrated with an overview of social conditions, printing techniques,rtists, engravers, printers and details of the prints and subjects.

Author : Edwin E. Grabhorn
Publisher : San Francisco : Printed [at the Grabhorn Press] for the Book Club of California
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukiyo-e, "the Floating World." written by Edwin E. Grabhorn and published by San Francisco : Printed [at the Grabhorn Press] for the Book Club of California. This book was released on 1962 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pie Books
Publisher : Pie
ISBN 13 : 9784756242983
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cats in Ukiyo-E written by Pie Books and published by Pie. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of the work of Kuniyoshi's works that feature cats.

Author : Amy Reigle Newland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781577150695
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukiyo-e written by Amy Reigle Newland and published by . This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of Japanese woodblock printing from the 16th century to the 18th century is beautifully celebrated in this book. Explains the cultural traditions of Japan as well as interprets the prints.

Author : Ellis Tinios
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Prints written by Ellis Tinios and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: British Museum Press, c2010.

Author : David Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ukiyo-e Explained written by David Bell and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ukiyo-e Explained is the first integrated study to show how ukiyo-e is art but also social history, culture and craft. This study illuminates new pathways to a greater appreciation of ukiyo-e by addressing the environments and conditions under which the artists worked, together with the factors that determined or conditioned the peculiar stylistic character of ukiyo-e.