Author: Jack Ronald HillierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Catalogue of the Japanese Paintings and Prints in the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Gale
Author: Jack Ronald HillierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Japan, France, and East-West Aesthetics
Author: Jan HokensonPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838640104
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Japan, France is the first comprehensive history of the idea of Japan in France, as tracked through close readings of canonical French writers and thinkers from the 1860s to the present. The focus is literary and intellectual, the context cultural. The discovery of Japanese woodblock prints in Paris, following the opening of Japan to the West in 1854, was a startling aesthetic encounter that played a crucial role in the Impressionists' and Post-Impressionists' invention of Modernism. French writers also experimented with Japanese aesthetics in their own work, in ways that similarly thread into the foundations of literary Modernism. Japonisme (the practice of adapting Japanese aesthetics to creative work in the West) became a sustained French tradition, in texts by such writers as Zola and Proust through Barthes and Bonnefoy. Each generation discovered new Japanese arts and genres, commented on the work of their predecessors in this vein, and broke still more ground in East-West aesthetics to innovate in the forms of Western literature and thought. To read literary history in this way unsettles Eurocentric assumptions about many of the French writers who are commonly considered the
The Greatest English Novels to Read in a Lifetime
Author: VariousPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525507906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14364
Book Description
Fifty timeless novels in one collection, plus additional bonus classics: The Oresteia by Aeschylus Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt and Jerome Kohn Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly The Brontë Sisters by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud The Iliad by Homer The Odyssey by Homer The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham All My Sons by Arthur Miller The Crucible by Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe by Fernando Pessoa Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Short Novels of John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck Dracula by Bram Stoker Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Three Novels of New York by Edith Wharton Gray When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints
Author: Andreas MarksPublisher: Hotei Pub
ISBN: 9789004185319
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
A Compendium focuses on the production process of Japanese woodblock prints with an emphasis on the role of the publisher. This publication presents over 1,100 publishers, with comprehensive lists of publications by a total of 572 artists and facsimiles of over 2300 publisher seals, spanning a time period from the 1650s to the 1990s.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: Discoveries: Art and Culture of Japan
Author: Nelly DelayPublisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810928626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Text and many color photos profile several strains of historical Japanese art and culture, covering the "kami," the Buddhist tradition, the court, the warrior, Zen, and the Edo period; also includes a section of related documents, a chronology, and a bibliography.
Cats in Ukiyo-E
Author: Pie BooksPublisher: Pie
ISBN: 9784756242983
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This is a collection of the work of Kuniyoshi's works that feature cats.
The Athenaeum
Author: Arman estampes
Author: Jane OtmezguinePublisher: Yenny
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Catalog of prints from 1960-March 1990.