Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print - Hardcover

Lane, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568524811 ISBN 13: 9781568524818

Publisher: Konecky & Konecky,U.S., 2006

Synopsis

"Japanese Prints" - Since its discovery by the Western World in the mid-nineteenth century, the Japanese woodblock print has awakened the interest of a growing number of collectors and connoisseurs. In bust portraits, genre and Kabuki scenes, landscapes and erotica, the artists of this hybrid school of painting and print design achieved a mastery previously unknown in these fields, forming a fitting conclusion to the long and glowing tradition of classical Japanese art. In addition, Ukiyo-e gives an incomparable record of Japanese life in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, before and after the opening of Japan to the West. Dr. Lane describes the illustrated books, erotic albums and paintings that fall within the school of Ukiyo-e. Numerous Japanese seals and signatures are reproduced in the margins, and important series such as the "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji" are illustrated in full to aid scholars, collectors and art lovers.

Selected bibliographies for artists in the dictionary, as well as a general bibliography and two indexes complete this fascinating book, a veritable mine of pictorial and written information for all who are fascinated by the unique magic of Japanese prints.

About this edition

• Publisher: Konecky & Konecky,U.S.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1568524811
• ISBN 13: 9781568524818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364