The Ukiyo-e print was a dominant and popular art form in Japan - from the 17th to 19th centures - showing street scenes, lovers' assignations, portraits of courtesans and actors, landscapes and travelogues. "Japanese Prints" consists of 139 reproductions by 47 grand masters of this art form. Grouped by artist, each print is accompanied by detailed commentary. Amongst the most celebrated of the artists featured here are: Utamaro, with his courtesans and geishas; Sharaku, with his portraits of actors on the Kabuki stage; and Hokusai, with his landscapes - among them "36 views of Mount Fuji". The books's essays - by Mitsunobu Sato, Curator of Riccar Art Museum, Tokyo and Thomas Zacharias, Professor at the Munich Academy of Art - aim to familiarize the reader with the history of this art form, and examine the technique, content and style of Japanese prints and their influence on European art at the turn of the century.
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Japanese Prints,
By Raven "ArtRaven6" (USA) - See all my reviews
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As usual, the Taschen publishers have done a choice job of reproducing great art. The pieces are laid out harmoniously with one another as well as with the text, through and through. It is beautifully bound, and has a lovely dust cover. Prints are high quality, clear reproductions, and are primarily in color. This is important to me in a book on an artistic style, that relies heavily on color to be successful. Well worth the price, list or not.
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Japanese Prints,
By K. Murphy "Fortune favors the Bold" (The thriving metropolis of Masury, OH) - See all my reviews
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I don't really know anything about Japanese artwork or famous artists-I bought this book a couple years ago for the pictures of the Samurai. Because of this, all I can really say is that it is a well laid-out and attractive book full of beautiful Japanese art depicting all kinds of scenes and subjects. It makes a great coffee-table book.
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"The first ukiyo-e appeared in 17th-century Japan in Edo, present-day Tokyo, in which, as the largest city of its day, a bourgeois culture of considerable originality had emerged." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
polychrome print, actor portraits, print reproduced, pleasure quarter, kabuki stage, kabuki theatre, pleasure district, print artist, family emblem, woodblock printing, immortal poets, woodblock prints, famous places, work reproduced, erotic pictures, colour composition, individual prints Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mount Fuji, Utagawa Hiroshige, Kitagawa Utamaro, Riccar Art Museum, Nishimuraya Yohachi, Suzuki Harunobu, New Year, Torii Kiyonaga, Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Toyokuni, Eastern Capital, Uoya Eikichi, Plum Orchard, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Ishikawa Toyonobu, Nishiki-c Published, Takeuchi Magohachi, Benizuri-e Published, Edo Castle, Ohashi Bridge, Utagawa Toyoharu, Ichikawa Ebizb, Nihon Dyke, Nisbiki-e Published, Okazawaya Taheiji New!
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"The first ukiyo-e appeared in 17th-century Japan in Edo, present-day Tokyo, in which, as the largest city of its day, a bourgeois culture of considerable originality had emerged." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
polychrome print, actor portraits, print reproduced, pleasure quarter, kabuki stage, kabuki theatre, pleasure district, print artist, family emblem, woodblock printing, immortal poets, woodblock prints, famous places, work reproduced, erotic pictures, colour composition, individual prints Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mount Fuji, Utagawa Hiroshige, Kitagawa Utamaro, Riccar Art Museum, Nishimuraya Yohachi, Suzuki Harunobu, New Year, Torii Kiyonaga, Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Toyokuni, Eastern Capital, Uoya Eikichi, Plum Orchard, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Ishikawa Toyonobu, Nishiki-c Published, Takeuchi Magohachi, Benizuri-e Published, Edo Castle, Ohashi Bridge, Utagawa Toyoharu, Ichikawa Ebizb, Nihon Dyke, Nisbiki-e Published, Okazawaya Taheiji New!
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- The Essential: Cindy Sherman (Essential (Harry N. Abrams)) by Abrams in Back Matter
- IMAGES FROM THE FLOATING WORLD - The Japanese Print by Richard Lane in Back Matter
- Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art by Ernest F. Fenollosa in Back Matter
- Art Now Artist at the Rise of the New Millennium (Taschen 25) by Uta Grosenick in Back Matter
- Tate Modern Artists: Tracey Emin by Neal Brown in Back Matter
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