Hiroshige

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MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E
This is the first series of books to gather together the full panorama of ukiyo-e—"pictures of the floating world"—from its inception in early genre paintings to the versatile genius of such masters as Hokusai. Each book examines a specific master, style or medium and has sixty-four pages of full-color reproductions, many available outside Japan for the first time. Masterworks of Ukiyo-e will provide collectors and scholars with excellent quick reference sources, and readers with no previous knowledge of Japanese art with an unusually fine and specific introduction to its appreciation.
also:
Early Paintings Sharaku Utamaro Hokusai
Harunobu The Decadents Kiyonaga
Hiroshige: Famous Views
Hokusai: Sketches Studies in Nature
"The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido": The
Tokaido—the highway's very name suggests a golden age ofjapan's past. This "Eastern Sea Road" connected the emperor's capital in Kyoto with the seat of the shogun's administration in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E
This is the first series of books to gather together the full panorama of ukiyo-e—"pictures of the floating world"—from its inception in early genre paintings to the versatile genius of such masters as Hokusai. Each book examines a specific master, style or medium and has sixty-four pages of full-color reproductions, many available outside Japan for the first time. Masterworks of Ukiyo-e will provide collectors and scholars with excellent quick reference sources, and readers with no previous knowledge of Japanese art with an unusually fine and specific introduction to its appreciation.
also:
Early Paintings Sharaku Utamaro Hokusai
Harunobu The Decadents Kiyonaga
Hiroshige: Famous Views
Hokusai: Sketches Studies in Nature
"The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido": The
Tokaido—the highway's very name suggests a golden age ofjapan's past. This "Eastern Sea Road" connected the emperor's capital in Kyoto with the seat of the shogun's administration in Edo (now Tokyo) and was heavily traveled in all seasons. Numerous prints and guidebooks about the TokaidS represent a time of prosperity and peace when even the average citizen could undertake the adventure of travel along this roadway.
It was Hiroshige who immortalized the Tokaido. In the prints of the fifty-three stages along the route that are reproduced in this book, the master artist captured the beauty, romance, adventure, mystery and joy—all the myriad aspects of travel on the Tokaido, in all seasons and times of day. Hiroshige's Tokaido prints became an immediate success in his own time; today they are included among the art masterpieces of the world.
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