Ukiyo-e : 250 years of Japanese art /
A collection of nearly four hundred Japanese woodcuts from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries is accompanied by technical and biographical data on the artist.
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Language: | English Italian |
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New York :
Windward,
[1979], ©1978.
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Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Images of the floating world
- The technique of ukiyo-e
- Plates
- The dawn of ukiyo-e
- The romantic world of fantasy
- The road to realism
- The golden age of ukiyo-e
- Feminine beauty
- The rivals of Utamaro
- The enigmatic genius
- The Utagawa school
- The search for formal beauty
- The poetry of landscape
- The eve of reform
- The end of traditional wood-block prints.