Japanese Prints from the Early Masters to the Mode

Michener, James A.

ISBN 10: 0804803145 / ISBN 13: 9780804803144

Editore: Tuttle Pub, North Clarendon, Vermont, U.S.A., 1975

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287 pages, illustrated with 257 plates (55 in full-color) and several fold-out. A fine copy, binding bright, text very fresh and clean, in dust jacket. The jacket is fine fresh and bright. Covers early prints, the beginnings, the primitives, full-color prints, landscape, figure prints and the moderns. Essential reference on landscapes: Hokusai & followers, Toyokuni, minor masters, Hiroshige & figiure prints, and Kiyonobu, Kiyomasu, Masanobu, minor masters, end of an epoch. Harunobu, Koryu- sai, Buncho, Shunsho, Shunko, Shun'ei, Masanobu, Shigemasa, Toyoharu, Kiyonaga, Utamaro, Sharaku, Choki, Shuncho, Eishi, Eisho & Shuncho. Clean. Codice articolo 005993

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Titolo: Japanese Prints from the Early Masters to ...

Casa editrice: Tuttle Pub, North Clarendon, Vermont, U.S.A.

Data di pubblicazione: 1975

Legatura: Cloth

Condizione: Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine

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In James A. Michener the Japanese print has found its ideal commentator. Combining the finished literary style of an outstanding novelist with a mature knowledge of his subject, he is able to bring this great art form to life
in words, directly communicating his understanding, love, and enthusiasm rather than obscuring his subject in pedantry. In fact, it might almost be said that he here lets the prints speak for themselves, in a wealth of magnificent
illustrations and apt but unobtrusive commentary. It is only when one has finished the book that he realizes he has been conducted on a tour of three
centuries of art, a tour so carefully arranged as to give a deep understanding of the history and aesthetics of Japanese prints, a new appreciation of a superlative art. The book has many other unique features. So far as consonant with his aim of presenting a full survey, Mr. Michener has illustrated the book with lesser-known masterpieces rather than with those few prints that have
been reproduced almost ad nauseam. Unlike earlier books, this does not stop with the past century, but brings the subject completely up to date, introducing,
in the modern Japanese print, some of the most exciting art being created in Japanand in the worldtoday. The book also becomes a revealing account of the collecting of Japanese prints, with many valuable hints to collectors based upon the author's own experiences in gathering together one of the best print collections of recent years: it is a collecting field in which many hints
are needed, with prices varying from $5 to $5,000 per print, and with forgeries and doubtful attributions on every hand.

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Book by Michener James A