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.

Dettagli Bibliografici
Autore principale: Neuer, Roni
Altri autori: Libertson, Herbert, Yoshida, Susugu
Natura: Libro
Lingua:English
Italian
Pubblicazione: New York : Windward, [1979], ©1978.
Edizione:1st American ed.
Soggetti:
Sommario:
  • 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.