| Description |
390 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Images of the floating world -- Technique of ukiyo-e -- Plates -- Dawn of ukiyo-e -- Romantic world of fantasy -- Road to realism -- Golden age of ukiyo-e -- Feminine beauty -- Rivals of Utanaro -- Enigmatic genius -- Utagawa school -- Search for formal beauty -- Poetry of landscape -- Eve of reform -- End of traditional wood-block prints |
| Notes |
Also published: New York : Windward, [1979] c1978 |
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Includes index |
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Originally published as Ukiyo-e 250 anni di grafica giapponese. Milano : Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1979 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 390 |
| Notes |
Translated from the Italian |
| Subject |
Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868.
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Art, Japanese -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.
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Color prints, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868.
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Color prints, Japanese -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.
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Ukiyoe.
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| Author |
Libertson, Herbert.
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Yoshida, Susugu.
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