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Japanese Woodblock Prints Artists, Publishers and Masterworks: 1680 - 1900

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ISBN-10: 4805310553

ISBN-13: 9784805310557

Edition: 2010

Authors: Andreas Marks, Stephen Addiss

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Japanese woodblock prints, orukiyo-e, are the most recognizable Japanese art form. Their massive popularity has spread from Japan to be embraced by a worldwide audience. Covering the period from the beginning of the Japanese woodblock print in the 1680s until the year 1900,Japanese Woodblock Printsprovides a detailed survey of all the major artists, along with the images on which their fame rests. Unlike previous examinations of this art form,Japanese Woodblock Printsincludes detailed histories of the publishers of woodblock printswho were often the driving force determining which prints, and therefore which artists, would make it into mass circulation for a chance at critical and popular…    
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Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication date: 5/20/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 8.98" wide x 11.97" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 4.796

Stephen Addiss is Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Art at the University of Richmond. His many books include The Art of Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy by Japanese Monks 1600-1925and How to Look at Japanese Art.Jonathan Chaves is professor and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University. He is the editor and translator of many works, including The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry,and is the coauthor, with J. Thomas Rimer, of Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing(Columbia 1998).J. Thomas Rimer is chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. His many…