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Title: Masterpieces of Japanese Prints: Ukiyo-E from the Victoria and Albert Museum by Richard Lane, Rupert Faulkner, B. W. Robinson, Victoria and Albert Museum ISBN: 4-7700-2387-1 Publisher: Kodansha International (JPN) Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Summary: The Floating World
Comment: Unexpected earnings from the Great Exhibition of 1851 (at the Crystal Palace in London) were used to establish the following year the Victoria and Albert Museum, the world's largest collection of applied art and design. In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry made his famous expedition to Japan, which had been isolated for 250 years, and set up trade agreements. Examples of Western technology (locomotive, telegraph, camera) were given to the Japanese, and Japanese artifacts to Westerners. Of particular impact were Japanese woodcuts of the 17th through 19th centuries, called ukiyo-e or images of "the floating world," tens of thousands of which ended up in museum collections throughout the world. Many (perhaps most) American and European artists and designers were influenced by the then-strange stylistic traits of these prints (crisp black outlines, bold flat areas of color, asymmetrical arrangements, and dramatic cropping), among them such people as Whistler, Manet, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Aubrey Beardsley, and Frank Lloyd Wright. "All my work," wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother, "is in a way founded on Japanese art." This stunning volume is a full-color treasury of 130 of those woodcuts (introduced and annotated by scholars) from the many now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. (Copyright © by Roy R. Behrens from Ballast Quarterly Review, Vol. 14 No. 3, Spring 1999.)
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Title: Floating World of Ukiyo-E : Shadows, Dreams and Substance by Sandy Kita, Lawrence E. Marceau, James Douglas Farquhar, Katherine L. Blood ISBN: 0810941694 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title: Japanese Prints: The Art Institute of Chicago by James T. Ulak ISBN: 0789206137 Publisher: Abbeville Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Yoshitoshi's Women: The Woodblock-Print Series Fuzoku Sanjuniso by John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi Taiso ISBN: 0295974311 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Japanese Prints by Gabriele Fahr-Becker ISBN: 3822820598 Publisher: Taschen Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Utamaro: Portraits from the Floating World by Tadashi Kobayashi ISBN: 4770027303 Publisher: Kodansha International (JPN) Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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