Japanese Kite Prints: Selections From The Skinner Collection Format: Hardcover
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Book Shop, LLC.
Seattle, Washington: The Drachen Foundation, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Nearly 100 color illustrations, including several folding plates. In a book that brings together two of Edo's most colourful traditions, prints and kites, Stevenson celebrates the charm and significance of the mass-produced but often elegant broadsheets known as ukiyo-e - "pictures of the floating world." Minor crease to the edges of three folding plates; otherwise a pristine copy in a clean and bright dust jacket. Housed in the publisher's slipcase.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Book Shop, LLC - ABAA, ILAB [2769747], Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Nearly 100 color illustrations, including several folding plates. In a book that brings together two of Edo's most colourful traditions, prints and kites, Stevenson celebrates the charm and significance of the mass-produced but often elegant broadsheets known as ukiyo-e - "pictures of the floating world." Minor crease to the edges of three folding plates; otherwise a pristine copy in a clean and bright dust jacket. Housed in the publisher's slipcase.

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Color woodblock prints vibrantly convey the popular urban culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Edo, now called Tokyo. In a book that brings together two of Edo's most colorful traditions, prints and kites, John Stevenson celebrates the charm and significance of the mass-produced but often elegant broadsheets known as ukiyo-e . The term means "pictures of the floating world," a pun on a Buddhist concept of the fleeting world of desires that is, coincidentally but poetically, appropriate for a study of kites borne on the wind. Edo artists experimented with woodblock-printing techniques during the eighteenth century as kite-flying became increasingly popular. Each influenced the other: kite-makers copied woodblock-print designs to decorate their creations of bamboo, cloth, and paper, and printers used images of kites in their designs. The prints from the Skinner Collection illustrated in this book are products of Tokugawa Edo (1603-1867) and Meiji Tokyo (1868-1912). They record highlights of the Kabuki theater, brothels, and Sumo wrestling, enthusiastically presenting star actors and celebrity courtesans and vignettes of everyday life. These images capture for us the character of life as it was lived and imagined by the printmakers and kite-fliers of Old Japan. It seems that everyone thrills to the sight of a kite straining upward into the sky, and woodblock prints are perhaps the most accessible form of traditional Japanese visual culture; kite aficionados and lovers O.

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Color woodblock prints vibrantly convey the popular urban culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Edo, now called Tokyo. In a book that brings together two of Edo's most colorful traditions, prints and kites, John Stevenson celebrates the charm and significance of the mass-produced but often elegant broadsheets known as ukiyo-e. The term means pictures of the floating world, a pun on a Buddhist concept of the fleeting world of desires that is, coincidentally but poetically, appropriate for... Color woodblock prints vibrantly convey the popular urban culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Edo, now called Tokyo. In a book that brings together two of Edo's most colorful traditions, prints and kites, John Stevenson celebrates the charm and significance of the mass-produced but often elegant broadsheets known as ukiyo-e. The term means pictures of the floating world, a pun on a Buddhist concept of the fleeting world of desires that is, coincidentally but poetically, appropriate for a study of kites borne on the wind. Edo artists experimented with woodblock-printing techniques during the eighteenth century as kite-flying became increasingly popular. Each influenced the other: kite-makers copied woodblock-print designs to decorate their creations of bamboo, cloth, and paper, and printers used images of kites in their designs. The prints from the Skinner Collection illustrated in this book are products of Tokugawa Edo (1603-1867) and Meiji Tokyo (1868-1912). They record highlights of the Kabuki theater, brothels, and Sumo wrestling, enthusiastically presenting star actors and celebrity courtesans and vignettes of everyday life. These images capture for us the character of life as it was lived and imagined by the printmakers and kite-fliers of Old Japan. It seems that everyone thrills to the sight of a kite straining upward into the sky, and woodblock prints are perhaps the most accessible form of traditional Japanese visual culture; kite aficionados and lovers of Japanese art alike will be delighted by this study.Soort: Met illustraties;Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 23x300x254 mm;Gewicht: 1,81 kg;Geschikt voor: 22 jaar en ouder;Verschijningsdatum: augustus 2004;Druk: 1;ISBN10: 0295984546;ISBN13: 9780295984544; Engelstalig | Hardcover | 2004.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books [51315977], Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Lost Books [1385712], AUSTIN, TX, U.S.A.
0295984546.