Painting the Floating World

Released on by Janice Katz
preview-18

  • Painting the Floating World Book Detail

  • Author : Janice Katz
  • Release Date : 2019-01-08
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Genre : Art
  • Pages : 307
  • ISBN 13 : 0300236913
  • File Size : 44,44 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Painting the Floating World by Janice Katz PDF Summary

Book Description: From the 17th through the 19th century, artists in Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo) captured the metropolitan amusements of the floating world (ukiyo in Japanese) through depictions of subjects such as the beautiful women of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters and performers of the kabuki theater. In contrast to ukiyo-e prints by artists such as Katsushika Hokusai, which were widely circulated, ukiyo-e paintings were specially commissioned, unique objects that displayed the maker’s technical skill and individual artistic sensibility. Featuring more than 150 works from the celebrated Weston Collection, the most comprehensive of its kind in private hands and published here for the first time in English, this lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched volume addresses the genre of ukiyo-e painting in all its complexity. Individual essays explore topics such as shunga (erotica), mitate-e (images that parody or transform a well-known story or legend), and poetic inscriptions, revealing the crucial role that ukiyo-e painting played in a sophisticated urban culture.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Painting the Floating World books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.