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Kunisada : imaging drama and beauty / Robert Schaap ; with an introduction by Sebastian Izzard and contributions by Paul Griffith and Henk J. Herwig.
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Kunisada (Japan Museum SieboldHuis)
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Language
English
Published/Created
Leiden, The Netherlands : Hotei Publishing, [2016]
©2016
Description
174 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
NE1310.U73 S34 2016q Oversize
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Color prints, Japanese
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Edo period, 1600-1868
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Ukiyoe
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Utagawa, Kunisada 1786-1864
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Japan Museum SieboldHuis
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Japan Museum SieboldHuis
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Herwig, Henk
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Griffith, Paul (Paul M.)
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Schaap, Robert.
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歌川豊国, 1786-1865.
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2016.
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Izzard, Sebastian.
Utagawa Kunisada, the artist and his times.
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Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.
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Summary note
Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) was one of the most successful Japanese woodblock print designers of his age. With an estimated output of some twenty-five thousand prints during a career spanning almost sixty years, Kunisada was a towering figure in the sphere of 'ukiyo-e'. His versatility and inventiveness extended across genres, from the stars of the kabuki stage to the women from the pleasure districts, the world of entertainment and the everyday, as well as landscapes, warriors and literary themes. Kunisada was greatly respected during his lifetime as a print designer of the Utagawa school and as the head of a successful studio with students, such as Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900), who would carry the tradition of woodblock prints into the Meiji period (1868-1912). Yet scholars, collectors and connoisseurs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries dismissed him and many of his contemporaries as "decadent". And in recent decades his achievements have often been overshadowed by his contemporary Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861). 'Kunisada: imaging drama and beauty' offers a fresh perspective on this 'ukiyo-e' master, demonstrating the high calibre of his art with prints, paintings and books sourced from international public and private collections. Although the over one hundred and fifty works in the publication represent only a small part of Kunisada's vast oeuvre, they serve to convey his skill in capturing and imagining Japanese popular culture of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Notes
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Dec. 9, 2016-Mar. 5, 2017, Japan Museum SieboldHuis, Leiden, Netherlands.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-172) and index.
Contents
Preface / Robert Schaap & Chris Uhlenbeck
Lenders to the exhibition & catalogue: notes to readers
Utagawa Kunisada, the artist and his times / Sebastian Izzard
Catalogue / Robert Schaap with Paul Griffith, Henk J. Herwig & Sebastian Izzard.
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ISBN
900433789X ((paperback))
9789004337893 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016498575
OCLC
961008492
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