Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print

Lane, Richard

ISBN 10: 0881688894 / ISBN 13: 9780881688894

Published by Alpine Fine Arts Collection (UK), London, 1978

About this Item

4to (288 x 240mm). Pp 364 illustrated by over 900 drawings in colour and b&w. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Previous owner's initials neatly in ink on the front free endpaper else a clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 102861

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print
• Publisher: Alpine Fine Arts Collection (UK), London
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881688894
• ISBN 13: 9780881688894
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First printing of this edition.
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

About this title

Synopsis

Physical description; 364 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. Subjects; Ukiyoe. Color prints, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868. Color prints, Japanese -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.

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.