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The prolific Utagawa school is one of the most famous lineages of print artists in the history of Japanese woodblock prints. This 232-page groundbreaking catalogue features full-color images of more than 200 prints from the renowned Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints at the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison. This collection – a number of which were once part of Frank Lloyd Wright’s personal collection of Japanese prints – is particularly noteworthy for its strong holdings of landscape prints including rare designs incorporating western perspective by Utagawa Toyoharu. The book includes explicated entries for each work, artist biographies, and five scholarly essays about Japanese print culture and the Utagawa school.

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Author:   Laura J. Mueller ,  Akane Fujisawa ,  Kobayashi Tadashi ,  Ellis Tinios
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Dimensions:   Width: 25.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 30.20cm
Weight:   1.608kg
ISBN:  

9789004155398

ISBN 10:   9004155392
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   01 November 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Acknowledgments Essays Establishing a Lineage: The Utagawa School and Japan’s Print Culture Laura J. Mueller Ukiyo-e Artists and Their Patrons: The Case of Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) and the Wealthy Merchant Mitani Chōzaburō Kobayashi Tadashi The Mutual Flowering of the Utagawa School and Kabuki Fujisawa Akane Warrior Prints and the Double-edged Sword of Loyalty Ellis Tinios Creative Specialization and Collaborative Projects Laura J. Mueller Catalogue Establishing a Name: Utagawa Toyoharu The Studios of Toyohiro and Toyokuni Creative Specialization: Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, and Kunisada Collaborative Works Utagawa Style and Market Dominance Claiming the Lineage: Later Artists of the Utagawa School Artist Biographies The Artistic Lineage of the Utagawa School Glossary Bibliography Index

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Laura J. Mueller, guest curator for the exhibition Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School at the Chazen Museum of Art, and doctoral candidate in Japanese art history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison specializing in the study and research of Japanese woodblock prints. She is author of Strong Women, Beautiful Men: Japanese Portrait Prints from the Toledo Museum of Art (2005). Fujisawa Akane, lecturer of Japanese literature at Gakushūin University in Tokyo. She published Ukiyo-e of the Utagawa School and the Edo Publishing World: Kabuki Actor Prints (2001). Kobayashi Tadashi, professor of Japanese art history at Gakushūin University in Tokyo and director of the Chiba City Museum of Art. His recent publications include Masterpieces of Landscape: Ukiyo-e Prints from the Honolulu Academy of Arts (2003) and Suzuki Harunobu (2002). Ellis Tinios, honorary lecturer in the School of History, University of Leeds; research associate at the Japan Research Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; and special assistant to the Japanese Section of the Department of Asia, British Museum. He is the author of Mirror of the Stage: The Actor Prints of Kunisada (1996), and On the Margins of the City: Recreation on the Periphery of Edo (with Paul Waley, 1999).

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