Download or read book Japan Color written by Ikkō Tanaka and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Japan Color explores the relationship between color and feeling and shows its manifestation in all aspects of Japanese design, from the most traditional object to contemporary graphic design .. more than one hundred color photographs ... to demonstrate the cultural significance of color. Essays ... and detailed descriptions of each image ... accompany the photographs, documenting the history and evolution of color use in Japan"--Cover.

Download or read book How Posters Work written by Ellen Lupton and published by Cooper Hewitt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Posters Work is more than a standard exhibition catalogue. Conceived as a useful and illuminating primer in visual thinking, it explores principles of design through a range of historical and contemporary works, uncovering ideas relevant not just to the design of posters but to 2D design more generally. How Posters Work has a unique focus on visual language. Rather than provide a history of the genre or a compilation of collectibles, the book is organized around active design principles. Concepts such as "Simplify," "Focus the eye," "Exploit the diagonal," "Reverse expectations," and "Say two things at once" are illustrated with a diverse range of posters, from avant-garde classics and rarely seen international works to contemporary pieces by today's leading graphic designers. Illustrated with over 150 works from the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, How Posters Work provides a stunning education in seeing and making, demonstrating how some of the world's most creative designers have mobilized principles of layout, composition, psychology, and rhetoric to produce powerful acts of visual communication

Download or read book Six Chapters in Design written by Philip B. Meggs and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stylish and concise, this volume presents the work of six venerable names in modern design history. Featuring more than three hundred examples of their best work, yet still eminently portable, Six Chapters in Design is a charming model of economy. Each chapter begins with an essay by a fellow designer, or poet, or, in the case of Saul Bass, director Martin Scorsese, and closes with a biographical profile. Esteemed by designers around the world, these are the artists who created the identities of Warner, AT&T, IBM, ABC, UPS, and Westinghouse; film titles for The Shining and Cape Fear; posters; advertisements; and memorable images of every sort. Their work, nearly omnipresent in everyday life, has influenced an entire culture. This dynamic compendium is a smart resource for designers and artists working in any medium.

Download or read book Tanaka Ikko written by Gian Carlo Calza and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive monograph on the established master of Japanese graphic design.

Download or read book Japan Style written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kamaitachi photographs Eikoh Hosoe performance Tatsumi Hijikata written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text by Donald Keene, Shuzo Takiguchi.

Download or read book Japan Style written by Gian Carlo Calza and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and wide-ranging visual essay on the aesthetics of Japan, now in a beautiful paperback edition. Japan Style, written by one of the world's most respected scholars of Japanese art and culture, defines what 'Japan style' is. It explores specific achievements in Japanese art and architecture, but also offers an in-depth analysis of the whole of Japanese culture, its vision of the world and of humankind. 'Japan style' is something recognizable to everyone: a beautifully arranged flower, an elegant piece of calligraphy or a simple rock garden, but it is also something that is very difficult to define. The book is divided into three main sections. In the first one ('Irregular Beauty'), the author delineates the different aspects of Japanese culture and draws interesting connections between art, architecture, religion, philosophy and mythology. For example, he explains the aesthetics of the tea ceremony and its relationship to Zen philosophy as well as other subjects such as the function of the void in mythology, Buddhism and the arts. The second part of the book ('A Feeling of Nature') follows a chronological path from ancient times to the present explaining more specifically how to interpret the different forms of Japanese art (literature, painting, sculpture, etc.). The third part of the book ('Art Masters') contains short monographs on Japanese masters in the history of Japanese art and culture: Zeami Moto, the creator of No theatre; Hokusai, the master of woodblock printing; Yasunai Kawabata and Mishima Yukio, the writers; and the graphic designer, Tanaka Ikko. Calza's groundbreaking and insightful text is accompanied by 150 colour images of a great variety of examples from Japanese art and culture.

Download or read book Bruno Monguzzi written by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo and published by Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland. This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artwork by Bruno Monguzzi. Edited by Maurice Berger, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo.

Download or read book Japanese Graphic Design written by Richard S. Thornton and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1991 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Arts of Hon ami K etsu written by Kōetsu Hon'ami and published by Philadelphia Museum (PA). This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book written by Ikkō Tanaka and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Serizawa written by Keisuke Serizawa and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serizawa Keisuke (1895-1984) was one of the greatest artists of 20th-century Japan. This book presents Serizawa's artistic biography in detail using the finest examples of his work from leading Japanese collections.

Download or read book Kamisaka Sekka written by Sekka Kamisaka and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's Meiji era was a time of dramatic cultural change. Industry, the military, transportation, fashion, architecture, the arts - all aspects of Meiji society embraced modernisation. Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942) flourished during this vibrant period. Deeply rooted in tradition - he led the revival of Rinpa, a style created in the 17th century - Sekka was a progenitor of modern design in Japan, creating imaginative, innovative imagery. He cooperated with other artisans to apply his designs to ceramics, lacquerware, and textiles, and so became an influential transitional figure. In addition to his work as a designer, Sekka produced several suites of prints, published as multivolume books. When he transformed his paintings into woodcuts for reproduction, he revised his style to suit the medium. The resulting graphics are imbued with his signature elegant and delicate touch and reflect the artist's melding of Western and Japanese design influences. The Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture in Hanford, California, holds a magnificent collection of Kamisaka Sekka's works. Chosen for this book are the complete sets of prints from three of his best-known publications: All Kinds of Things (Chigusa), All Kinds of Butterflies (Cho- senshu) and Things from Many Worlds (Momoyogusa). More than 160 woodblock prints are collected here, with an introductory essay authored by Andreas Marks, Director and Chief Curator at the Clark Center.

Download or read book Tiger Scroll Of The Koga Kinja written by Jay Sensei and published by Paladin Press. This book was released on 1984-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passed down through the centuries from father to son, master to disciple, the tiger scroll transmitted the instructions of one of Japan's most deadly clans. Now, for the first time, author Sensei reveals the contents of the Koga Ninja's once-secret handbook. Not for sale outside the USA and Canada

Download or read book Ballet written by Henry Leutwyler and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The photographs in this book are an ode to the brilliant men and women of the New York City Ballet - for inviting us to places we've forgotten and for effortlessly transporting us outside of our everyday selves. More than just dance, ballet is an expression of human emotion in all its forms: love, despair, passion, hope, and most importantly, joy." -- Epilogue.

Download or read book Tanaka 1587 written by Stephen Turnbull and published by Retinue to Regiment. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1587 the 1,000-strong garrison of tiny Tanaka Castle in Higo Province (modern Kumamoto Prefecture) on Japan's southern island of Kyushu, held out for 100 days against an army ten times their size sent by the great general Toyotomi Hideyoshi. When the castle fell it was burned to the ground, and for four centuries the epic struggle lived on only through a handful of letters, two little-known war chronicles and in the folk memories of the local people who continued to make offerings on the now anonymous hillside to comfort the tormented spirits of Tanaka's dead warriors. In 1986 everything changed. Prompted by the approaching fourth centenary of the battle the local council set in motion a systematic archaeological investigation of the castle site. Many interesting finds were made, but the greatest discovery of all came in 1989 in a distant library when a researcher unearthed what turned out to be Japan's oldest surviving battle map. It featured a detailed drawing of Tanaka Castle during the siege that matched up exactly with the picture that was emerging from the excavation. The unique document also contained so much extra information that, when combined with the archaeological finds, the written materials and local folklore, the almost forgotten siege of Tanaka became one of the best documented battles in the whole of Japan's samurai history. Tanaka 1587 tells the complete story of the epic struggle for the first time outside Japan by using the evidence that is available from history, literature, folklore, archaeology and cartography. It is based on the author's own translations of the chronicles and the archaeological report together with his extensive fieldwork over a period of many years. The story is presented as an exciting (and sometimes violent) historical narrative illustrated with unique photographs and maps. The contribution of the battle's enshrined spirits to present-day folk religion is also assessed, while attitudes towards the site's conservation, preservation and celebration provide a fascinating insight into how modern Japan views and exploits its samurai history in a society that has had to come to terms with a violent past. Before 1987 the siege of Tanaka Castle was virtually unknown beyond its immediate boundaries. Just as thirty years of painstaking work and enthusiastic publicity have transformed its status within Japan, this unique ground-breaking book will enable Tanaka's story to be understood and appreciated by a much wider international audience.

Download or read book 12 Japanese Masters written by Graphis and published by Harper Design. This book was released on 2003-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a tribute to the masters who created a New Japan out of the old, and bought the nation and its aesthetic to the attention of the rest of the world.