Download or read book In Praise of Hands written by Penny Boxall and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vibrant woodcuts are paired with new poems, creating a special dialogue between image and text, each throwing light on the otherThis collaboration has found a new resonance during the current pandemic, with our heightened awareness of the power of touch. The artworks celebrate the ability of hands to make, do, and communicateThis creative collaboration between artist Naoko Matsubara and poet Penny Boxall celebrates in words and colours the beauty and variety of the human hand. The series of dynamic woodcuts at the heart of this book was initially inspired by the artist's wonder at the busy hand movements of her baby son and grew into a wider celebration of hands in all their extraordinary variety - hands engaged in music, sport, prayer, or creative acts. The woodcuts convey a sense of joy and energy, whether exploring the symbolism of gestures, playing with form and colour, or expressing a mood or emotion. Penny Boxall's new poems were specially written to accompany the woodcuts. In their clarity and playfulness, their range of mood and their deceptive simplicity, they form a remarkable creative synergy with the art works. During the coronavirus pandemic the subject of hands - and the idea of touch or its absence - has taken on a new significance. Many of the images in the series have taken on powerful new meanings: healing hands, hands finding ways to occupy hours of furlough, or hands clapping in support of those working to keep us safe. We are particularly delighted that this elegant book has been designed by Yoshiki Waterhouse, Naoko Matsubara's son, whose baby hands were the original inspiration for the series.
Download or read book Nantucket Woodcuts written by Naoko Matsubara and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nantucket Island was first discovered in 1602 by an Englishman, it had already been inhabited from time beyond memory by native Americans. Since then, the history of Nantucket has reflected the history of the United States and Massachusetts.
Download or read book Kyoto Woodcuts written by Naoko Matsubara and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1978 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyoto has many faces. Japan's imperial capital until 1868, its name even now is synonymous with that country's art and civilization. Besides being a gigantic open-air museum of art and architecture, it is also a place of pilgrimage for religious contemplation, a treasure house of Japanese antiques and traditional arts and crafts, a modern center of commerce and communications, and above all a lively place to live for its million and a half residents. Kyoto Woodcuts presents all these aspects, interpreted by one of the city's most gifted daughters. -- Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Tales of Days Gone By A Selection from Konjaku Monogatari shu written by Naoko Matsubara and published by Western Publications Distirbution Agency. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Days Gone by is a selection of 17 stories from Konjaku monogatari-shu, a 12th century collection of more than 1000 tales. The stories in this selection are divided into three categories: tales of women, tales of wonder and tales of Buddhism. They were chosen and visualized in dynamic woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara.
Download or read book Tree Spirit written by Naoko Matsubara and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive overview of Matsubara's work and includes more than 200 prints, from her earliest to her most recent works, covering the development of her work from organic forms based in nature to bold geometric and abstract designs.
Download or read book Tibetan Sky written by Naoko Matsubara and published by Calgary : Bayeux. This book was released on 1997 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 20 multi-colored woodcuts and other images depicting the art of woodcut prints. Also available in a Special hand-bound, boxed in Saifu cloth, edition
Download or read book Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints written by Helen Merritt and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[An] impressive volume, with a valuable amount of information not otherwise available in one source." --Choice Companion volume to Merritt's Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints. This volume is a reference work that is both comprehensive and rigorously chronological.
Download or read book Boston Impressions written by Sinclair Hitchings and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-04-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. ‘Rashömon’ and ‘In a Bamboo Grove’ inspired Kurosawa’s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as ‘The Nose’, ‘O-Gin’ and ‘Loyalty’ paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as ‘Death Register’, ‘The Life of a Stupid Man’ and ‘Spinning Gears’, Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.
Download or read book Hokusai written by Matthi Forrer and published by Prestel Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hokusai was one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print. His exquisite compositions and dynamic use of color set him apart from other printmakers, and his unequalled genius influenced both Japanese and a whole generation of Western artists. Now available for the first time in paperback, this book reproduces the artist's finest works in plates that convey the full variety of his invention, each of which is provided with an informative commentary. In his introduction, Hokusai expert Matthi Forrer traces the artist's career and defines his place in relation to his contemporaries and to the history of Japanese art. Examining all genres of the artist's prolific output -- including images of city life, maritime scenes, landscapes, views of Mount Fuji, bird and flower illustrations, literary scenes, waterfalls and bridges -- Hokusai, Prints and Drawings provides a detailed account of the artist's genius.
Download or read book Master Potter of Meiji Japan written by Moyra Clare Pollard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in a European language to make a comprehensive study of the life and works of the astonishingly versatile and accomplished Meiji potter, Makuzu Kozan (1842 - 1916), who was acclaimed as one of the greatest ceramic artists of the Meiji period.The Meiji period, after the opening of Japan to the West in the mid-nineteenth century, was a time of momentous change for Japanese society and Kozan's Makuzu workshop makes an ideal case study to examine the effects of these changes on the Japanese ceramic industry. This book tells the story ofKozan's Makuzu wares from their origins in a traditional workshop in Kyoto to their maturity in a prolific factory in the newly-opened port of Yokohama, where Kozan's ability to cater to the demands of a new Western export market and to incorporate new Western glaze techniques led to enormoussuccess, both in Japan and abroad at the international exhibitions that flourished from the 1850s.Lavish illustrations highlight Kozan's remarkable and technical and artistic achievements, while ceramic marks and box inscriptions are analysed as a practical guide to dating Makuzu ware. Clare Pollard discusses the role of later generations of the Miyagawa family in the running of the workshop andrelates developments in Makuzu ware to the work of other major potters of the era, both in Japan and in Europe and America.Incorporating contemporary sources (including previously unstudied archival material from the Makuzu workshop itself), recent research and the study of a large corpus of Makuzu wares in museums and private collections all over the world, the book examines the artistic, political, and commercialfactors that influenced Kozan and his contemporaries as they strove to come to terms with shifting life-styles and changing attitudes to the arts, and moved towards the creation of a modern ceramic industry.
Download or read book In Praise of Trees written by Naoko Matsubara and published by Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reprint of In Praise of Trees by internationally acclaimed artist Naoko Matsubara coincides with her exhibitions at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, River Bank Gallery, Niagara on-the-Lake, and her major solo show at the Art Gallery of Ontario, opening July 19, 2025. Originally published in 1984, this 90-page volume features 38 original woodcuts and poetry by renowned international writers, edited by Peter Heyworth. A limited edition included a signed, numbered woodcut by Matsubara. Matsubara's fascination with trees stems from her childhood in Kyoto, where sacred groves influenced her. Her work animates trees with a mysterious, powerful presence, challenging and inspiring viewers. " Matsubara sees the spiritual and physical qualities of wood ... Her attention to detail and mastery in printmaking create the illusion of trees rustling and showcase her skill as a woodcut artist." -- Daniel J. Kushner
Download or read book Autumnal Tints written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two institutions of New England, our fall colors and Henry David Thoreau, are brought together in this posthumously published rumination on Nature. Autumnal Tints was originally published in the October 1862 Atlantic Monthly.
Download or read book Ship of the Line written by Penny Boxall and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Winner of the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. SHIP OF THE LINE is a museum in which objects whisper inviting stories: the bed a king may not have slept in, a school of taxidermy animals, a peal of wedding bells. Sailors are shipwrecked and dredged up on the coast, while the poet journeys across England, sometimes walking through fields or bicycling over country hills, and at others times journeying through documents, meeting vivid characters that peek out of the footnotes. This book is a grand exhibition, gathering oddments from history, and floodlighting them for all to see.
Download or read book Tokyo written by Lena Fritsch and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully designed book is a celebration of one of the world's most creative, dynamic and fascinating cities: Tokyo. It spans 400 years, with highlights including Kano school paintings; the iconic woodblock prints of Hiroshige; Tokyo Pop Art posters; the photography of Moriyama Daido and Ninagawa Mika; manga; film; and contemporary art by Murakami Takashi and Aida Makoto. Visually bold and richly detailed, this publication looks at a city which has undergone constant destruction and renewal and it tells the stories of the people who have made Tokyo so famous with their insatiable appetite for the new and innovative - from the samurai to avantgarde artists today. Co-edited by Japanese art specialists and curators Lena Fritsch and Clare Pollard from Oxford University, this accessible volume features 28 texts by international experts of Japanese culture, as well as original statements by influential artists.
Download or read book The Building of the House written by Ellen B. Ballou and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HCI International 2020 Posters written by Constantine Stephanidis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-11 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three-volume set CCIS 1224, CCIS 1225, and CCIS 1226 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.* HCII 2020 received a total of 6326 submissions, of which 1439 papers and 238 posters were accepted for publication in the pre-conference proceedings after a careful reviewing process. The 238 papers presented in these three volumes are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: design and evaluation methods and tools; user characteristics, requirements and preferences; multimodal and natural interaction; recognizing human psychological states; user experience studies; human perception and cognition. -AI in HCI. Part II: virtual, augmented and mixed reality; virtual humans and motion modelling and tracking; learning technology. Part III: universal access, accessibility and design for the elderly; smartphones, social media and human behavior; interacting with cultural heritage; human-vehicle interaction; transport, safety and crisis management; security, privacy and trust; product and service design. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
