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Masterpieces of Japanese Prints
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Muneshige Narazaki,B. W. Robinson,Richard Lane,Victoria and Albert Museum, London,Rupert Faulkner |
Ever since Japan opened its doors to the West in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Westerners have been fascinated by the exquisite art forms that flourished during the previous two hundred … |
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Hiroshige
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Gian Carlo Calza |
Hiroshige (1797–1858), Japanese painter and printmaker, is known especially for his landscape prints. The last great figure of the popular ukiyo-e school of printmaking, he transmuted everyday landsc… |
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Worldly Pleasures Earthly Delights
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is home to about 3,000 Japanese woodblock prints. These works, collectively known as ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world," were produced during Japan's Edo p… |
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Hokusai
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Sarah E. Thompson |
Katsushika Hokusai remains one of Japan’s most popular and influential artists. This handy volume presents the wide range of Hokusai’s artistic production in terms of one of his most remarkable chara… |
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Ascending Chaos
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Catherine Clark,Alison Bing,Kathryn A. Hoffmann |
Introduction by Catharine Clark,Essays by Alison Bing,and Eleanor Heartney,and Kathryn A. Hoffmann
Published to coincide with a series of major exhibitions extending beyond 2007, Ascending Chaos i… |
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Heroes of the Kabuki Stage
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Arendie Herwig,Henk J. Herwig |
**An Introduction to the World of Kabuki with Retellings of Famous Plays, illustrated by Woodblock Prints**
*Heroes of the Kabuki Stage* is written for Kabuki lovers and collectors of Kabuki woodb… |
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The Hokusai Sketchbooks
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James A. Michener |
Between the years 1814 and 1878 there was published in Japan a series of woodblock-printed volumes entitled "Hokusai Manga," or "Hokusai's Sketches from Life," which was destined to be one of the mos… |
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Demon of Painting
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Timothy Clark |
Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889), described as "The Intoxicated Demon of Painting" - who could paint a 50-foot theatre curtain in four hours - was a serious student of earlier styles, producing meticulous… |
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