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Author | : James A. Michener |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1984-02-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780824808730 |
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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.
Author | : Cecelia Holland |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1497619807 |
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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.
Author | : Timothy Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Color prints, Japanese |
ISBN | : |
Download The Dawn of the Floating World, 1650-1765 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Takahiro Kitamura |
Publisher | : Kit Pub |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789074822459 |
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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.
Author | : Julian Bicknell |
Publisher | : Pomegranate |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : 9781566408035 |
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Author | : Timon Screech |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781861890306 |
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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.
Author | : Ed Sibbett |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 048624279X |
Download Japanese Prints Coloring Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The distinctive Japanese print, the Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the passing, floating world"), is among the most beautiful of all art forms developed by man. This exceptional coloring book offers 38 exquisite, ready-to-be-colored plates by Japan's greatest print masters: Kiyonaga, Utamaro, Hokusai, Sharaku, Hiroshige, and 16 others. Publisher's Note. List of prints.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781942801931 |
Download Video Tonfa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Features 300 of Tim Goodyear's movie reviews with hand drawn recreations of the movie's original advertising or VHS box art.
Author | : Alfred Haft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Aesthetics, Japanese |
ISBN | : 9789004209879 |
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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).
Author | : James A. Michener |
Publisher | : Dial Press Trade Paperback |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0449226115 |
Download This Noble Land Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In such modern classics as Chesapeake, Centennial, Hawaii, Alaska, and Texas, James A. Michener proved time and again that his understanding of and love for his country was unparalleled. This Noble Land is Michener’s most personal statement about America, an examination of the issues that threaten to fragment and undermine the nation—racial conflict, the widening gulf between rich and poor, the decline of education, the inadequacies of our health care system—as well as a thought-provoking prescription for sustaining our “outstanding success.” Infused with the wisdom and passion of a lifetime, This Noble Land stands as a wake-up call for a troubled era. Praise for This Noble Land “A book-length essay on the often worrying, often inspiring course of America in the nine decades of Michener’s life.”—The Washington Post “Michener is more interested in fixing the problems than in fixing the blame.”—The Dallas Morning News “Michener’s are the beach books that, unlike most other beach books, leave you smarter than you were when you started reading. Each delivers the product of all that research, doled out to the reader at just the right rate. You know right away who the bad guys are—the petty ones, the stingy ones. The heroes are generous and energetic and smart and, above all, unprejudiced. The real-life villains in This Noble Land are the people Michener perceives as ‘petty, mean and vengeful.’”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Stirring . . . an admirable effort to define what has made our country great and how to preserve what is best about it.”—Kirkus Reviews