Japanese Kite Prints: Selections from the Skinner Collection

Author:   John A. Stevenson
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
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9780295984544


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 August 2004
Format:   Hardback
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Colour woodblock prints vibrantly convey the popular urban culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Edo, now called Tokyo. In a book that brings together two of Edo's most colourful traditions, prints and kites, John Stevenson celebrates the charm and significance of the mass-produced but often elegant broadsheets known as ukiyo-e. The term means ""pictures of the floating world,"" a pun on a Buddhist concept of the fleeting world of desires that is, coincidentally but poetically, appropriate for a study of kites borne on the wind. Edo artists experimented with woodblock-printing techniques during the eighteenth century as kite-flying became increasingly popular. Each influenced the other: kite-makers copied woodblock-print designs to decorate their creations of bamboo, cloth, and paper, and printers used images of kites in their designs. The prints from the Skinner Collection illustrated in this book are products of Tokugawa Edo (1603-1867) and Meiji Tokyo (1868-1912). They record highlights of the Kabuki theatre, brothels, and Sumo wrestling, enthusiastically presenting star actors and celebrity courtesans and vignettes of everyday life.These images capture for us the character of life as it was lived and imagined by the printmakers and kite-fliers of Old Japan. It seems that everyone thrills to the sight of a kite straining upward into the sky, and woodblock prints are perhaps the most accessible form of traditional Japanese visual culture; kite aficionados and lovers of Japanese art alike will be delighted by this study.

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Author:   John A. Stevenson
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Dimensions:   Width: 25.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 30.50cm
Weight:   1.805kg
ISBN:  

9780295984544


ISBN 10:   0295984546
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 August 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Japanese Kite Prints: IntroductionThe PrintsAnatomy of a Woodblock PrintDating Japanese PrintsBibliographyIndex

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