Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century

JENKINS, DONALD

University of Washington Press

The "floating world"--the closely related pleasure and entertainment districts of Tokyo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--embodied and idealized fashion, chic, and urbanity for its habitués, and inspired a profusion of woodblock prints depicting renowned courtesans and adored matinee idols. Considered ephemera in their time, these prints are treasured works of art today. In this volume of "floating world prints" (ukiyo-e), the authors present a selection of Kabuki actor portraits and theater scenes from The Art Institute of Chicago's world-renowned Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints. Together with interpretive essays that place the prints in their historical and cultural context, the authors offer a catalog of 880 prints, 136 of them in color, containing the most complete and up-to-date information available about each print.
 Donald Jenkins's essay explains printmaking and explores the lives and milieu of the Katsukawa school print makers. Timothy Clark, in his essay, vividly depicts the world of Kabuki theater and describes a particular production of a popular play, from the vantage points of various participants. Osamu Ueda has provided dates and identification for the subjects of many of the prints in the collection, as well as biographies of the leading Kabuki actors and brief lives of the printmakers of the Katsukawa school.

The Actor's Image

Arts & Photography

Ueda, Osamu

Clark, Timothy Thornburn

History & Criticism

Princeton University Press

The Floating World Revisited

A lovely volume, being the catalog of an exhibition held at the Portland Art Museum. Its subject is the golden age (roughly 1780 to 1800) of what the Japanese call ukiyo-e, a term that embraces, but is not limited to, what in the West are simply called Japanese prints. In addition to the exhibition

Cleveland Museum Of Art

Portland Art Museum (Or.)

Jacobsen-Katsumoto, Lynn

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Univ of Hawaii Pr

A lovely volume, being the catalog of an exhibition held at the Portland Art Museum. Its subject is the golden age (roughly 1780 to 1800) of what the Japanese call ukiyo-e , a term that embraces, but is not limited to, what in the West are simply called Japanese prints. In addition to the exhibition pieces (illustrated in color and b&amp;w) and their accompanying textual description and explication, are five major essays on the artists, the art, and the period. 9.75x11.5" Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Graphic Design

Portland Art Museum

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Portland Art Museum (Oregon) in 2005, this oversize (10.25x12.25") catalogue presents full-page color plates and descriptive entries of objects made from jade, ceramic, wood, and bronze from the Qin through the Han dynasties. Distributed by the U. of Washington Press. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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