Author: Ando Hiroshige Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486990966 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 67
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Woodblock prints from some of the celebrated artist's best-known works include scenes from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo and The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido.
Author: Brooklyn Museum of Art Publisher: Pomegranate Communications ISBN: 9780764916205 Category : Languages : en Pages : 30
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Produced between 1856 and 1858 by the artist Utagawa Hiroshige (17971858), One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo Hyakkei), a collection of woodblock prints, has had a lasting influence on Western art, especially the Imperialists and Post-impressionist movements. The Japanese gardens in these prints inspired Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh owned several of Hiroshiges prints depicting plum trees in bloom. Selected from the Brooklyn Museum of Arts complete edition of the series, the thirty dramatic prints in this book of postcards epitomize Hiroshiges superb compositions. Pomegranates books of postcards contain up to thirty top-quality reproductions bound together in a handy, artful collection. Easy to remove and produced on heavy card stock, these stunning postcards are a delight to the sender and receiver. Postcards are oversized and may require additional postage.
Author: Mikhail Uspensky Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 272
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The '100 Views of Edo' is one of the most famous artistic productions of all times. The art of Ukiyo-e, or Popular Painting, was the expression of a singular and isolated civilization, and had a considerable influence on European art.
Author: Jean-Claude Grumberg Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062981811 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 71
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Set during the height of World War II, a powerful and unsettling tale about a woodcutter and his wife, who finds a mysterious parcel thrown from a passing train. Once upon a time in an enormous forest lived a woodcutter and his wife. The woodcutter is very poor and a war rages around them, making it difficult for them to put food on the table. Yet every night, his wife prays for a child. A Jewish father rides on a train holding twin babies. His wife no longer has enough milk to feed both children. In hopes of saving them both, he wraps his daughter in a shawl and throws her into the forest. While foraging for food, the wife finds a bundle, a baby girl wrapped in a shawl. Although she knows harboring this baby could lead to her death, she takes the child home. Set against the horrors of the Holocaust and told with a fairytale-like lyricism, The Most Precious of Cargoes is a fable about family and redemption which reminds us that humanity can be found in the most inhumane of places. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
Author: Moyra Clare Pollard Publisher: ISBN: 9781854442956 Category : Block printing Languages : en Pages : 0
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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) is one of the best known of all Japanese woodblock print designers. He is particularly renowned for his landscape prints, which are among the most frequently reproduced of all Japanese works of art. Hiroshige's landscape prints were hugely successful both in Japan and in the West. Their unusual compositions, humorous depictions of people involved in everyday activities and masterly expression of weather, light and seasons, proved enormously influential on many leading European artists. Aimed at a general audience, this book illustrates and discusses 53 Hiroshige landscape prints in the Ashmolean Museum's collection and explores their historical background. It gives a concise introduction to Hiroshige's life and career within the context of Japan's booming nineteenth-century woodblock print industry and explores the development of the landscape print as a new genre in this period. It also discusses and illustrates the process and techniques of traditional Japanese woodblock print-making. Contents: How to 'read' a Japanese Print, Preface, Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) Woodblock Print Designer, Making a Japanese Woodblock Print, I Views along the Tokaido, II Views of the Provinces, III Views of Edo, IV Views of Mount Fuji, Further Reading.
Author: Oliver R. Impey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 38
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This booklet illustrates a selection of 20 woodblock prints form the series of prints by Ando Hiroshige called Meisho Edo Hakkei or One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo. Published between 1856-59, they were the last series designed by Hiroshige, who died in 1858.
Author: Matthi Forrer Publisher: Prestel Publishing ISBN: 9783791325941 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 254
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This volume offers an excellent overview of the accomplished artist who was one of the leading creators of landscape imagery in Japanese printmaking.
Author: Michail Uspensky Publisher: Parkstone International ISBN: 1781608644 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 279
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The art of the Ukiyo-e reflected the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation which, when it became accessible to the West, significantly influenced a number of European artists. The three masters of Ukiyo-e, Hokusai, Utamaro and Hiroshige, are united here for the first time to create a true reference on Japanese art. The three masters rank highly among the most famous Japanese artistic productions of all time. This new title of the Prestige of Art collection will be a reference for art students and Japanese art lovers.
Author: Ando Hiroshige
Author: Edward Fairbrother Strange
Author: Edward F. Strange
Author: Brooklyn Museum of Art
Author: Mikhail Uspensky
Author: Jean-Claude Grumberg
Author: Moyra Clare Pollard
Author: Oliver R. Impey
Author: Matthi Forrer
Author: Michail Uspensky