Author: Seisuke IkedaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
The Ikeda Collection of Kakemonos and Screens
Author: Seisuke IkedaDictionary Catalog of the Library of the Freer Gallery of Art. Smithonsonian Institution, Washington
Author: Freer Gallery of Art. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Annual Register
Author: Stanford UniversityUKIYO-E PAINTINGS PB
Author: Timothy ClarkPublisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book illustrates and examines more than two hundred ukiyo-e paintings by such masters as Utamaro, Hokusai, and Moronobu, who captured the erotic world of the courtesan and geisha, as well as landscapes, theatrical scenes, and outdoor past times.
Mountains of the Heart
Author: Bōsai KamedaPublisher: George Braziller
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"Mountains of the Heart" explores Japan's landscape through the eyes of a renowned artist and provides new perspectives on a rare painting collection. It is an invaluable study of a landmark masterpiece that profoundly influenced the development of "ehon," or art books, which recorded Japanese life, culture, and geography for hundreds of years. A great master of the Japanese art-book tradition, Bosai eloquently discusses man's interaction with the environment. His work depicts small figures lost in the mist and forests of immense foothills, seeking nourishment for body and spirit. His work instills in the viewer a sense of nature's immense power and our comparative frailty, while still conveying the peaceful mood of the rural locales that he so lovingly immortalizes. Each image, in its serenity, completely captivates the viewer, and draws us into Bosai's world. "One secret of the appeal of "ehon" is that their artists see with such imagination and clarity, draw with such verve, and embrace any subject, however humble or imperfect," explains Roger S. Keyes, curator of a New York "ehon" exhibition, who declares that these books seize and hold a reader's attention, that they provide revelation and inspiration and turn willing readers into artists. "They empower people." This certainly holds true in "Mountains of the Heart," With comprehensive introduction and commentary by Stephen Addiss, this book will inspire anyone interested in the rich history of Japanese art. 22 color spreads, 22 black and white illustrations.
The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Author: Cleveland Museum of ArtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Making of Modern Japan
Author: Marius B. JansenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 933
Book Description
Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years’ engagement with Japan and its history, it is the crowning work of our leading interpreter of the modern Japanese experience. Since 1600 Japan has undergone three periods of wrenching social and institutional change, following the imposition of hegemonic order on feudal society by the Tokugawa shogun; the opening of Japan’s ports by Commodore Perry; and defeat in World War II. The Making of Modern Japan charts these changes: the social engineering begun with the founding of the shogunate in 1600, the emergence of village and castle towns with consumer populations, and the diffusion of samurai values in the culture. Marius Jansen covers the making of the modern state, the adaptation of Western models, growing international trade, the broadening opportunity in Japanese society with industrialization, and the postwar occupation reforms imposed by General MacArthur. Throughout, the book gives voice to the individuals and views that have shaped the actions and beliefs of the Japanese, with writers, artists, and thinkers, as well as political leaders given their due. The story this book tells, though marked by profound changes, is also one of remarkable consistency, in which continuities outweigh upheavals in the development of society, and successive waves of outside influence have only served to strengthen a sense of what is unique and native to Japanese experience. The Making of Modern Japan takes us to the core of this experience as it illuminates one of the contemporary world’s most compelling transformations.
Museum Builders in the West
Author: Carol Margot OsbornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Da Kine Talk
Author: Elizabeth Ball CarrPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824881249
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Hawaii is without parallel as a crossroads where languages of East and West have met and interacted. The varieties of English (including neo-pidgin) heard in the Islands today attest to this linguistic and cultural encounter. "Da kine talk" is the Island term for the most popular of the colorful dialectal forms--speech that captures the flavor of Hawaii's multiracial community and reflects the successes (and failures) of immigrants from both East and West in learning to communicate in English.
Author: Timothy Clark