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Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Early Years

Book by Helen Merritt; University of Hawaii, 1990

Subjects:

Color Prints, Japanese--20th Century

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...the pleasure quarters of Edo. Ukiyo-e prints were the popular art of townsmen...woodblock printing process by which the ukiyo-e prints were made, perfected during the...1900s were scarcely aware of the ukiyo-e prints that European artists and collectors...
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About Prints

Book by S. W. Hayter; Oxford University Press, 1962

Subjects:

Prints

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...AND DEALERS IN PRINTS-- France, England...TOSHI YOSHIDA, Ukiyo-e print. 1957...oak, and the prints were as perfect...TOSHI YOSHIDA . Ukiyo-e print. 1957...the design, i.e. the artist...the plank. Such prints are more...
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Masters of the Japanese Print: Their World and Their Work

Book by Richard Lane; Doubleday, 1962

Subjects:

Color Prints, Japanese, Painting, Japanese

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...basis for the success of Japanese ukiyo-e prints lay, from their inception, in several...not, it is a fact that the great ukiyo-e prints, even though extant in a dozen...104 . Acknowledging, then, that ukiyo-e prints form the largest single glory...
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The World of the Meiji Print: Impressions of a New Civilization

Book by Julia Meech-Pekarik; Weatherhill, 1986

Subjects:

Color Prints, Japanese--Meiji Period, 1868-1912, Japan--History--Meiji Period, 1868-1912--Pictorial Works

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...ukiyo-e. The high ukiyo-e, if we may use...than the Meiji prints. Even the more...us in Meiji prints. It would be hard to say when ukiyo-e died. Perhaps...painting and prints, and down to...flat, unshaded ukiyo-e style. The ukiyo...
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Printmaking Today: An Introduction to the Graphic Arts

Book by Jules Heller; Holt, 1958

Subjects:

Prints--Technique

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...areas to be printed--i.e., the image; those...SOME QUALITIES OF PRINTS If we set aside...Early American Prints . New York: The...Griffits T. E., "The Herkomer Lithographic...Jackson F. E., "Lithography...Western Lithographers," Prints , pp. 16-25, May...

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Shaking Up Japan: Edo Society and the 1855 Catfish Picture Prints

Journal article by Gregory Smits; Journal of Social History, Vol. 39, 2006

Subjects:

Earthquake damage--History, Earthquake damage--Japan, Earthquake damage--Portrayals, Prints--Analysis, Prints--History, Tokyo, Japan--Environmental aspects, Tokyo, Japan--History, Tokyo, Japan--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Catfish picture prints: earthquakes...11-12. 4. Namazu-e and Their Themes...The print was Ukiyo Matabei meiga...According to Sarah E. Thompson...legendary painter Ukiyo Matabei (1578-1680...forerunner of ukiyo-e. The paintings...of Japanese Prints," in Sarah E...
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The Afro-Asiatic Floating World: Post-Soul Implications of the Art of Iona Rozeal Brown

Journal article by Crystal S. Anderson; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

Subjects:

African American painting--Criticism and interpretation, African American painting--Exhibitions, brown, iona rozeal--Criticism and interpretation, brown, iona rozeal--Exhibitions

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...to festivals, but the bulk of Ukiyo-e prints focus on courtesans and actors...ideal beauty" found in other Ukiyo-e prints (91). Utamaros print also suggests...hip-hop, manga comic books or ukiyo-e woodblock prints.... If it is acceptable for a...
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The Making of Tojin: Construction of the Other in Early Modern Japan

Journal article by Keiko Suzuki; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 66, 2007

Subjects:

Differentiation (Sociology)--Analysis, Foreign visitors--Names, Foreign visitors--Portrayals, Japanese foreign relations--History, Ukiyoe--Criticism and interpretation, Visitors, Foreign--Names, Visitors, Foreign--Portrayals

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...foreigners in the popular art of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) in the Edo Period (1603-1868...above-mentioned Mediterranean prints. Ukiyo-e artists like Hokusai and Utagawa...1999 Masterpieces of Japanese Prints: Ukiyo-e from the Victoria and Albert...
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Remapping Borders: Ren Bonian's Frontier Paintings and Urban Life in 1880s Shanghai

Journal article by Yu-Chih Lai; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, 2004

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Cities, Culture, Painting, Ren Bonian (Ren Yi) (1840-96), Shanghai China, Visual artists

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...emergence of Su Wus head from exaggeratedly hunched shoulders, creates an illusionistic momentum evocative of many Japanese ukiyo-e prints.105 Actually, we know that Ren Bonians friends had many Japanese contacts. For example, Hu Yuan (1823-1886), Ren Ronians...
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Leonid Dobychin. Encounters with Lise and Other Stories

Journal article by Michael Pinker; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 26, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Encounters with Lise and Other Stories (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the delicate relations between people in waking fantasies and gentle satire. His language is pinpoint precise, like ukiyo-e prints, sharply etched, richly colored incidents of human pathos arising from, dissolving into dust. Survivors of World War...

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Art, Water, and the Environment: Hundertwasser and Ukiyo-E

Magazine article by Pam Stephens; School Arts, Vol. 105, October 2005

Subjects:

Artists--Biography, Artists--Environmental aspects, Artists--Works, Ecology--Portrayals, Hundertwasser--Biography, Hundertwasser--Environmental aspects, Hundertwasser--Works, Ukiyoe--Evaluation, Ukiyoe--Works

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...through his art. Ukiyo-e and Hundertwasser Japanese woodblock prints were introduced...and water in the prints of Japanese master Ukiyo-e artists Hokusai...artists attraction to Ukiyo-e while expressing...environment. Each of the prints involves the idea...
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Playing to the Gallery: Ten Illustrated Books Picture the Intricate Dance of Cause and Effect between Theatre and Visual Art

Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 21, January 2004

Subjects:

Art: A Sex Book (Book)--Book reviews, Barakei: Ordeal by Roses (Book), Books--Book reviews, Images of Beckett (Book), Inside the Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Lenoir C. Wright Collection (Book), Matsuri! Japanese Festival Arts (Book), Samuel Beckett (Book), Shakespeare in Art (Book), Striptease: From Gaslight to Spotlight (Book), The Essential Samuel Beckett (Book), The Hong Kong Ballet (Book)

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...of 100 woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, chronicles the works...street festivals, ukiyo-e returned to the same...created a series of 11 prints, one for each act...Monzaemon. Shunsens prints retold Chushingura...serialization of ukiyo-e render them highly...
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Clip & Save Art Notes

Magazine article by Colleen Carroll; Arts & Activities, Vol. 146, November 2009

Subjects:

Kobayashi, Eitaku--Works, Printmakers--Works, The Snowman (Painting)--Evaluation

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...realism and charm. As was typical of Ukiyo-e prints, the artist used a strong diagonal...white background vista. Early Ukiyo-e prints were monochromatic, but by the...com/litho/sr/ss_process.shtml.) Ukiyo-e prints became so sought after by the Japanese...
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Clip & Save Art Notes

Magazine article by Colleen Carroll; Arts & Activities, Vol. 145, June 2009

Subjects:

Art education--Evaluation, Choki, Eishosai--Evaluation, Painters (Artists)--Evaluation, Painters--Evaluation, Ukiyoe--Study and teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...hundreds of artists producing Ukiyo-e prints, the subjects of which depicted...most well-known and charming prints made in the Ukiyo-e (pronounced oo-key-oh-eh) style...Phaidon Press Ltd., 1994.) Early Ukiyo-e prints tended to be monochromatic, emphasized...
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Japanese Legacy

Magazine article by Jon Burbank; World and I, Vol. 21, April 2006

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...one of Americas foremost ukiyo-e woodblock print collectors and dealers. Today, prints Wright collected are prominent...have taken." The sale of ukiyo-e prints also saved him financially...Wright talked about the ukiyo-e prints ... It seems to me that...

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Japan's Prints for Masses; Poor Lighting Spoils Effect

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 11, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...peer. This exhibit of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings aims to...paintings. The thousands of ukiyo-e prints produced provided good...first, black-and-white prints like those by Hishikawa Moronobu, who founded the ukiyo-e woodblock school in the...
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Come Meet the Women of Japanese Woodblock Prints

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), March 15, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...courtesans are a central part of ukiyo-e, the Japanese art tradition that...and 20th centuries, the woodblock prints depict landscapes, cityscapes and...kuchi-e, a related print genre. Kuchi-e prints of beautiful women appeared in books...
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HIROSHIGE; Japan Prints Powerful in West

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 23, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...included the now world-famous "ukiyo-e" woodblock prints. Western art was never the same...adventures in perspective by Japanese ukiyo-e artists, Western artists rarely...the work of traditional Japanese ukiyo-e artists. Miss Franks "conversations...
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Rare Showing of Japanese Prints

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 2, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Japanese Beauties. Known as "ukiyo-e" or "pictures of the floating...outstanding quality, the prints are rarely displayed to...two dimensional imagery of ukiyo-e, its composition and flat...record of who purchased prints for Tattons collection...
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Riches from a Free-Spirited Era in Japan

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, November 15, 1998

Subjects:

Japan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1797-1858), one of the leading ukiyo-e woodblock print artists...Tokaido." Many of the prints made their way to Paris...and stylishness. The ukiyo-e prints were the perfect expression...special media, such as the ukiyo-e prints. Moreover, the label...

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Moronobu

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...usually regarded as beginning the history of Japanese ukiyo-e prints (see Japanese art ). He produced his first single-sheet prints c.1673. His prints are mostly in black and white, although occasionally...
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Matsumoto

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...17th-century Matsumoto castle is the oldest surviving castle in Japan. There are museums of folklore, folkcraft, and ukiyo-e prints. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
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Harunobu

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Japanese color-print artist of the ukiyo-e school. He was the first to use...created multicolored calendar prints from wood blocks. He continued...young girls. Traditionally, the prints he made are called nishiki-e Jap.,=brocade pictures, a broad...
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Kaigetsudo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...kiget soodo, school of Japanese artists painting in the ukiyo-e style (see Japanese art ). Kaigetsudo was founded by...Kaigetsudo artists are better known in the West for their prints, which had a wider distribution...
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Hiroshige

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1797 1858, Japanese painter and color-print artist of the ukiyo-e school. His prolific work includes a series of landscapes...He painted flowers, fish, and birds, but his important prints are landscapes, frequently snow, rain, mist, or moonlight...

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