Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Masterful Illusions Masterful Illusions Donald Keene "Japanese prints have enthralled collectors in the West since the middle of the nineteenth century, when woodblock prints of landscapes, courtesans, kabuki actors, and warriors introduced the "floati… OL15350553W
Japanesque Japanesque Karin Breuer This lavishly illustrated book examines the profound influence of Japanese prints on the Impressionists and their American contemporaries. Richly illustrated throughout, this elegant volume introd… OL15597921W
Floating World of Ukiyo-E Floating World of Ukiyo-E Sandy Kita,Dr. Sandy Kita,Lawrence E. Marceau,Katherine L. Blood,James Douglas Farquhar The Library of Congress presents a gorgeous exhibition catalog that pulls from its collection of over 2000 Ukiyo-e prints and pre-19th-century Japanese art books one of the largest such collections o… OL15750156W
Kitagawa Utamaro Kitagawa Utamaro Julie Nelson Davis,Julian Opie,Timothy Clark This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Ikon Gallery (September – November 2010) which is a survey of woodblock prints by Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (c.1753 – 1806) from the collection of t… OL15937998W
Worldly Pleasures Earthly Delights Worldly Pleasures Earthly Delights 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… OL16306034W
The Printer's Eye The Printer's Eye Julia Meech,David Waterhouse,Melissa M. Rinne,Laura W. Allen Featuring over 100 rare Japanese woodblock prints and thoughtful commentary, The Printer's eye paints a vibrant and fascinating picture of Japan's Uikoyo-e or "floating world." Edwin Grabhorn (18… OL17564610W
Living for the Moment Living for the Moment Hollis Goodall Spanning the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the exquisite examples of Japanese prints included in this book offer insights into the history of an art form and vision that is distinctively Japane… OL17721471W
Art of Japan Art of Japan Carol Finley Focuses on Japanese wood block prints of the Edo period (1600-1868) by explaining the subject matter as well as the technique used in making them. OL1841578W
Kuniyoshi Kunisada Kuniyoshi Kunisada Noriko Katsumori,Masato Matsushima,Kazushi Kuroda,Chika Kagami,Akira Tsukahara,Yuiko Miwa,Sarah E. Thompson Rival 'ukiyo-e' masters Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797?1861) and Utagawa Kunisada (1786?1865) were the two most admired designers of figure prints in 19th-century Japan. Famous for the realism of his portra… OL19728589W
Hiroshige Hiroshige Adele Schlombs Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world", ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock print gen… OL2128972W
Beauty & Violence Beauty & Violence Robert Schaap,Eric van den Ing This excellent and lavishly illustrated catalog illustrates many examples from Yoshitoshi's numerous series which were drawn together in 1992 for an exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of … OL4035027W
Japanese nature print designs to color Japanese nature print designs to color Ming-ju Sun A coloring book of Ukiyo-e style prints with 3 pages of text. OL4397274W
Hokusai and Hiroshige Hokusai and Hiroshige Hokusai Katsushika,Julia M. White,Yoko Woodson,Reiko Mochinaga Brandon By the 1800s, when the artists Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige lived and worked, commoners enjoyed the numerous amenities of Edo (Tokyo), the world's largest city (pop. ca. 800,000). They la… OL4986002W
Sex and the floating world Sex and the floating world Timon Screech "Sex and the Floating World offers and entirely new assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints known as shunga. Shunga prints are unusual in that they are overtly about sex. The author … OL64249W
Ukiyo-e Ukiyo-e Tadashi Kobayashi Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, occupy a singular position in the lexicon of world art. They enthralled such Western artists as Whistler, Manet, Degas, and van Gogh, and gave rise to a wave of… OL8631364W
Hiroshige Hiroshige Isaburo Oka The last great master of the Japanese woodblock was Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). In the Japan of his day, Hiroshige's landscape prints fostered a new and far-reaching appreciation for nature in art… OL9065641W