Ukiyo-e /
In this impressive study Professor Calza examines images of the floating world (ukiyo-e) found in paintings, screens, illustrated books and, above all, the numerous woodblock prints that nineteenth-century French artists were to find so influential. Through six essays and six catalogue sections this...
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Format: | Knjiga |
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London :
Phaidon,
2005
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Izdanje: | 1st ed. |
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Sadržaj:
- Visions of the floating world / Gian Carlo Calza
- Enjoying actor prints: imagining the voices of actors and music / Mutō Junko
- Pictures of female beauties and actors in Ukiyo-e representations of Kabuki theatre in the early period / Kobayashi Tadashi
- The poetic picture: literary dimensions of early Ukiyo-e / John T. Carpenter
- Shunga: erotic art of the Edo Period / Timon Screech
- The birth and development of the depiction of female beauties (bijin-ga) in Ukiyo-e painting / Naitō Masato
- Three types of Ukiyo-e prints: loose prints, greeting cards and printed books / Asano Shūgō
- Introduction to the floating world
- I. Passions on the stage: the Kabuki theatre
- II. Past and present: tradition in the world of today
- III. The relationship with nature
- IV. Landscape
- V. City life
- VI. The female figure in the floating world.