Kunisada : imaging drama and beauty
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Kunisada : imaging drama and beauty
Hotei Publishing, c2016
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Issued in connection with an exhibition held Dec. 9, 2016-Mar. 5, 2017, Japan Museum SieboldHuis, Leiden, Netherlands
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-172) and index
Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) was one of the most successful Japanese woodblock print designers of his age. With an estimated output of some twenty-five thousand prints during a career spanning almost sixty years, Kunisada was a towering figure in the sphere of 'ukiyo-e'. His versatility and inventiveness extended across genres, from the stars of the kabuki stage to the women from the pleasure districts, the world of entertainment and the everyday, as well as landscapes, warriors and literary themes. Kunisada was greatly respected during his lifetime as a print designer of the Utagawa school and as the head of a successful studio with students, such as Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900), who would carry the tradition of woodblock prints into the Meiji period (1868-1912). Yet scholars, collectors and connoisseurs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries dismissed him and many of his contemporaries as "decadent". And in recent decades his achievements have often been overshadowed by his contemporary Utag
Contents of Works
- Preface
- Robert Schaap & Chris Uhlenbeck
- Lenders to the exhibition & catalogue: notes to readers
- Utagawa Kunisada, the artist and his times
- Sebastian Izzard
- Catalogue
- Robert Schaap with Paul Griffith, Henk J. Herwig & Sebastian Izzard
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