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Book The Floating World  rev  ed

    Book Details:
  • Author : James A. Michener
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1984-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780824808730
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book The Floating World rev ed written by James A. Michener and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1984-02-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Floating World by novelist James A. Michener is a classic work on the Japanese print of the Edo period (1615-1868). Mr. Michener shows how the Japanese printmakers, cut off from revivifying contacts with the art of the rest of the world and hampered by their own governmental restrictions, were able to keep their art vital for two centuries through their vigor and determination. For this new edition, Howard A. Link updates the scholarship and expands on many theoretical aspects introduced in Michener's study.

Book Tattoos of the Floating World

Download or read book Tattoos of the Floating World written by Takahiro Kitamura and published by Kit Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work discusses the art of the Japanese tattoo in the context of Ukiyo-e, focusing on the parallel histories of the woodblock print and the tattoo.

Book Drowning in the Floating World

Download or read book Drowning in the Floating World written by Meg Eden and published by Press 53. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drowning in the Floating World by Meg Eden immerses us into the Japanese natural disaster known as 3/11: the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. This poetry collection is also a cultural education, sure to encourage further reading and research.

Book Floating Worlds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cecelia Holland
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2014-04-01
  • ISBN : 1497619807
  • Pages : 769 pages

Download or read book Floating Worlds written by Cecelia Holland and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the far future, an Earth-born woman must negotiate with a fearsome mutant race: “On a par with Ursula LeGuin or Arthur C. Clarke” (Chicago Tribune). Two thousand years into the future, runaway pollution has made the earth uninhabitable except in giant biodomes. The society is an anarchy, with disputes mediated through the Machiavellian Committee for the Revolution. Mars, Venus, and the moon support flourishing colonies of various political stripes. On the fringes of the solar system, in the gas planets, a strange, new, violent kind of human has evolved. In this unstable system, the anarchist Paula Mendoza, an agent of the Committee, works to make peace and ultimately protect her people in a catastrophic clash of worlds that destroys the order she knows.

Book Floodgate Companion

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  • Author : Robert Beatty
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781942801986
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Floodgate Companion written by Robert Beatty and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floodgate Companion is Robert Beatty's debut monograph, a cosmic and immersive collection of artwork from the renowned album cover artist.

Book Aesthetic Strategies of the Floating World

Download or read book Aesthetic Strategies of the Floating World written by Alfred Haft and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetics of the Floating World offers an in-depth account of three aesthetic concepts--mitate, yatsushi, and fūryū--which influenced the way early-modern Japanese popular culture absorbed and responded to this force of cultural tradition. Combining literary, historical, and visual evidence, the book examines particularly how the three concepts guided artistic choices in the context of Floating World prints (ukiyo-e), and how the concepts have shaped the direction of ukiyo-e studies since the Meiji period (1868-1912).

Book Video Tonfa

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781942801931
  • Pages : 608 pages

Download or read book Video Tonfa written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 300 of Tim Goodyear's movie reviews with hand drawn recreations of the movie's original advertising or VHS box art.

Book Sex and the Floating World

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  • Author : Timon Screech
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9781861890306
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Sex and the Floating World written by Timon Screech and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an entirely new assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints today known as shunga. Recent changes in Japanese law have at last enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many picture books have since appeared in Japan. There has, however, been very little attempt to situate the imagery within the contexts of sexuality, gender or power. Questions of aesthetics, and of whether shunga deserve a place in the official history of Japanese art, have dominated, and the question of the use of these images has been avoided. Timon Screech seeks to re-establish shunga in its proper historical contexts of culture and creativity. Sex and the Floating World opens up for us the strange world of sexual fantasy in the Edo culture of eighteenth-century Japan, and investigates the tensions in class and gender of those who made - and made use of - shunga.

Book Occult Presence

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-11
  • ISBN : 9781942801726
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Occult Presence written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book After Land

Download or read book After Land written by Chris Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychedelic Dystopia. Vangelis meets Jodorowsky. Love, dreams and magic conspire to overthrow the powers of an evil, mechanized society.

Book Japanese Woodblock Prints  40th Ed

Download or read book Japanese Woodblock Prints 40th Ed written by Andreas Marks and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese woodblock print is a phenomenon with no Western equivalent, one where breathtaking landscapes exist alongside blush-inducing erotica; where demons and otherworldly creatures torment the living; and where sumo wrestlers, kabuki actors, and courtesans are rock stars. This condensed edition lifts the veil on a much-loved but little-...

Book The Prints of Isoda Kory  sai

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allen Hockley
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780295983011
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book The Prints of Isoda Kory sai written by Allen Hockley and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He may very well be the most productive artist of the eighteenth century. Refuting outmoded paradigms of connoisseurship and challenging the assumptions of conventional print scholarship, Allen Hockley elevates this important figure from the status of a minor Edo-period artist. He argues that Koryusai excelled by the most significant measure -- he was a highly successful creator of popular commodities. Employing an "active audience" model, Hockley reshapes the study of ukiyo-e as a.

Book Floating

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  • Author : Robin Troy
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1998-10
  • ISBN : 0671024493
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Floating written by Robin Troy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman whose husband is in jail has an affair with his brother, but the two discover too many differences and part. The novel, a debut in fiction, is based on the winning manuscript in a contest of some five hundred entries.

Book Object Compendium

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-06-09
  • ISBN : 9781942801788
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Object Compendium written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the first three sold-out monographs by Swedish illustrator, Kilian Eng.

Book History of Japanese Art

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  • Author : Penelope E. Mason
  • Publisher : Prentice Hall
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780131176010
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book History of Japanese Art written by Penelope E. Mason and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese art, like so many expressions of Japanese culture, is fascinatingly rich in its contrasts and paradoxes. Since the country opened its doors to the outside world in the mid-nineteenth century. Japanese art and culture have enjoyed an immense popularity in the West. When in 1993 renowned scholar Penelope Mason wrote the the first edition of History of Japanese Art, it was the first such volume in thirty yearsto chart a detailed overview of the subject. It remains the only comprehensive survey of its kind in English. This second edition ties together more closely the development of all the media within a well-articulated historical and social context. New to the Second Edition Extended coverage of Japanese art beyond 1945 New discoveries both in archeology and scholarship New material on calligraphy, ceramics, lacquerware, metalware, and textiles An extended glossary A comprehensively updated bibliography 94 new illustrations

Book Japanese Woodblock Printing

Download or read book Japanese Woodblock Printing written by Rebecca Salter and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the sophisticated traditional arts and crafts of Japan, woodblock prints are probably the most widely known in the West. The bold yet refined compositions are as fresh to the Western eye today as they were when they first came to the attention of the Impressionists in the nineteenth century. With their fluid lines, intricate carving and delicate colors, Japanese prints are still as fascinating as ever. In this book, Rebecca Salter takes us through the history of the Japanese woodblock, discusses the materials, tools, and papers available (and their Western equivalents) and shows how to get the most out of them through interesting step-by-step projects. The work of an international group of artists shows the varied and exciting prints being produced today.

Book The Immersion Program

Download or read book The Immersion Program written by Léo Quievreux and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subconscious is the battlefield of the near future.