Japanese prints : ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700-1900
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Japanese prints : ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700-1900
Lund Humphries, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This beautifully illustrated introduction to Japanese woodblock prints takes a fresh and vivid approach to the most familiar and widely appreciated of all the traditional Japanese arts in the west, showing how recent research has opened up a new, wider understanding of these prints and their role in Japanese history and society.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Reception and appreciation in the West, 1860s-1910s
- The production of woodblock prints
- Censorship of woodblock prints
- Actor prints
- Prints of beauties
- Landscape prints
- Warrior prints
- The colour woodblock print in the Meiji era, 1868-1912
- An outline history of ukiyo-e printmaking
- Further Reading
- Illustration acknowledgements
- Index.
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