ISBN:
0486238091
Complete Book Title:A Guide to Japanese Prints and Their Subject Matter
Author:Basil Stewart
Binding Type:Soft Cover
Copyright Date:1979
Number of Pages:398
Size:6.5 x 9.1 in.
Book Subject:Art
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Ukiyoye means pictures of the floating or passing world; the school of Japanese popular color prints known by this name flourished in thousands of prints by hundreds of artists over a relatively brief period c. 1760-1825. Since then the prints, originally considered vulgar and sold for pennies on the streets, have gained fame as the medium of Hokusai, Hiroshige and others, whose glimpses of Japanese life in landscape and theatrical scenes have influenced the greatest Western artists. In 1922 the English art collector and connoisseur Basil Stewart published his definitive discourse on this passing world. In discursive essays of unsurpassed acumen and charm, and in hundreds of illustrations, he amply demonstrated his prefatory remark that "an intelligent study of the subjects and scenes they illustrate will tell us more of the life, history, and character of Japan in the days when it was a closed book to the rest of the world, than any number of pages of print."
A Guide to Japanese Prints and Their Subject Matter brings back into print Stewart's immense knowledge of and feeling for Japanese culture as seen through Ukiyoye. First published in a limited edition now extremely rare, Stewart's comprehensive, detailed coverage of innumerable prints provides today's collectors with the necessary means of identifying artists (many artists borrowed the name of their master) and verifying authenticity. The analysis of the typical themes and motifs of the multicolored woodcut prints brings the student and interested reader into the Japan depicted for the masses of theater-goers, workers and city dwellers who constituted the artists' audience.
The main subject themes illustrated in the 274 black-and-white pictures include:
LandscapeHokusai's 36 Views of Fuji; Hiroshige's 53 Stations of the Tokaido; The Hak'kei, or 8 Views; The Hundred Famous Views of Yedo, etc.
Figure StudiesCourtesans and geisha by Utamaro, Kiyonaga, Shuncho, etc.
Theatrical Subjects and Actor PortraitsThe Chushingura, most famous, most often illustrated Japanese Kabuki drama; popular costumed actors; the Sugawara Tragedy.
Historical Subject's, Legends, StoriesChinese and Japanese history, ghost stories, celebrated legendary warriors.
Stewart's exhaustive analysis of Japanese theater and the Chushingura stands as a lasting reflection on timeless art; he also contributes much biographical information plus details of color printing, recognizing forgeries, and forming a print collection. Appendices give data on print chronology, with reproductions of artists' signatures, publishers' seals, and actors' crests. Few works in this field can provide the specialist with a list of Hokusai's pseudonyms, and the interested nonspecialist with the illustrated ritual procedure for committing seppuku; this exceptional book does both, with a specialized text which authenticates prints by penetrating the mist of Japan's "floating world.
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