Japan In Print

Author : Mary Elizabeth Berry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0520941462

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Japan in Print by Mary Elizabeth Berry Pdf

A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, travel, and entertainment. They subsequently circulated their findings through a variety of commercially printed texts: maps, gazetteers, family encyclopedias, urban directories, travel guides, official personnel rosters, and instruction manuals for everything from farming to lovemaking. In this original and gracefully written book, Mary Elizabeth Berry considers the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s. Inviting readers to examine the contours and meanings of this transformation, Berry provides a fascinating account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. Japan in Print shows how, as investigators collected and disseminated richly diverse data, they came to presume in their audience a standard of cultural literacy that changed anonymous consumers into an "us" bound by common frames of reference. This shared space of knowledge made society visible to itself and in the process subverted notions of status hierarchy. Berry demonstrates that the new public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by universal access to markets, mobility, sociability, and self-fashioning.

Author : Alicia Volk,Helen Nagata
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 029598502X

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Made in Japan by Alicia Volk,Helen Nagata Pdf

Made in Japan examines the artistic dialogue between East and West as it played out between 1945 and 1970. During this post-World War II period, Japanese printmakers effectively acted as ambassadors, bringing their aesthetic traditions into fruitful interaction with contemporary American trends and forging ties with artists, scholars, museums, and collectors. This volume presents for the first time an integrated history of innovative visual experimentation and pioneering cultural patronage. The creative print (sosaku hanga) movement originated in the early twentieth century, when Japanese artists sought to modernize their practice by embracing Euro-American concepts of originality and autonomy. The movement matured in the decades following World War II, when second- and third-generation sosaku hanga printmakers continued to experiment in stylistic, technical, and thematic terms. From the early 1950s, Japanese printmakers participated in a newly global art scene, achieving great success at international art exhibitions sponsored by the American and Japanese governments. The prints in this book range widely in treatment and medium, embracing woodcut, stencil, lithography, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, and screenprint. Made in Japan includes essays by Alicia Volk and Helen Nagata and biographies of the artists.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Berry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520237667

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Japan in Print by Mary Elizabeth Berry Pdf

“Anyone interested in the history of media and communications should read Beth Berry's extraordinary book. Learned, lucid, and lively, it has much to teach students of premodern societies in Europe and elsewhere.”—Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University “In Japan in Print, Mary Elizabeth Berry crisply condenses a remarkable amount of primary research on difficult and little-known materials, and it interprets those materials in a highly original framework. The scholarship is superb, and the writing is as masterful as the research. Anyone interested in East Asian cultural production will find this compelling reading.”—Kären E. Wigen, author of The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 “This is a very important book, not only for its insights into a vast body of previously overlooked texts, but also for its methodology. While historians have known that early modern Japan produced maps, for example, no one has heretofore compared them to their medieval predecessors or examined them for what they say about an emerging Japanese cartographic imagination. This is a highly original work, and it will change the field.”—Anne Walthall, author of The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration

Author : Nathan Shockey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231550741

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The Typographic Imagination by Nathan Shockey Pdf

In the early twentieth century, Japan was awash with typographic text and mass-produced print. Over the short span of a few decades, affordable books and magazines became a part of everyday life, and a new generation of writers and thinkers considered how their world could be reconstructed through the circulation of printed language as a mass-market commodity. The Typographic Imagination explores how this commercial print revolution transformed Japan’s media ecology and traces the possibilities and pitfalls of type as a force for radical social change. Nathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth. Charting the relationships among prose, politics, and print capitalism, he considers the meanings and functions of print as a staple commodity and as a ubiquitous and material medium for discourse and thought. Drawing on extensive archival research, The Typographic Imagination brings into conversation a wide array of materials, including bookseller trade circulars, language reform debates, works of experimental fiction, photo gazetteers, socialist periodicals, Esperanto primers, declassified censorship documents, and printing press strike bulletins. Combining the rigorous close analysis of Japanese literary studies with transdisciplinary methodologies from media studies, book history, and intellectual history, The Typographic Imagination presents a multivalent vision of the rise of mass print media and the transformations of modern Japanese literature, language, and culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Commercial art
ISBN : 0993581242

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Logos from Japan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Goree
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781684176267

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Printing Landmarks by Robert Goree Pdf

Printing Landmarks tells the story of the late Tokugawa period’s most distinctive form of popular geography: meisho zue. Beginning with the publication of Miyako meisho zue in 1780, these monumental books deployed lovingly detailed illustrations and informative prose to showcase famous places (meisho) in ways that transcended the limited scope, quality, and reliability of earlier guidebooks and gazetteers. Putting into spellbinding print countless landmarks of cultural significance, the makers of meisho zue created an opportunity for readers to experience places located all over the Japanese archipelago. In this groundbreaking multidisciplinary study, Robert Goree draws on diverse archival and scholarly sources to explore why meisho zue enjoyed widespread and enduring popularity. Examining their readership, compilation practices, illustration techniques, cartographic properties, ideological import, and production networks, Goree finds that the appeal of the books, far from accidental, resulted from specific choices editors and illustrators made about form, content, and process. Spanning the fields of book history, travel literature, map history, and visual culture, Printing Landmarks provides a new perspective on Tokugawa-period culture by showing how meisho zue depicted inspiring geographies in which social harmony, economic prosperity, and natural stability made for a peaceful polity.

Author : Karin Breuer
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Color prints, Japanese
ISBN : 379135082X

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Japanesque by Karin Breuer Pdf

This lavishly illustrated book examines the profound influence of Japanese prints on the Impressionists and their American contemporaries.

Author : Barry Till
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015070750966

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Shin Hanga by Barry Till Pdf

The shin hanga ("new print") movement flourished in Japan for almost fifty years after being set in motion and nurtured by publisher Watanabe Shozaburo (1885–1962). Employing the traditional "ukiyo-e quartet"—a production system consisting of artists, carvers, printers, and publishers—shin hanga attracted Western as well as native artists. The studio teams created woodblock prints that updated traditional ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") prints by including Kabuki actor portraits, "beauties," and landscapes and other nature themes, often birds and flowers. With lavish illustrations and expert commentary, Shin Hanga: The New Print Movement of Japan details the shin hanga movement and presents splendid reproductions of works by its principal artists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Commercial art
ISBN : 0957081650

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From Japan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joshua S. Mostow,Asato Ikeda,Ryoko Matsuba
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Boys in art
ISBN : 0888545142

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A Third Gender by Joshua S. Mostow,Asato Ikeda,Ryoko Matsuba Pdf

Gender relations were complex in Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). Wakashu, male youths, were desired by men and women, constituting a "third gender" with their androgynous appearance and variable sexuality. This book examines the fascination with wakashu in Edo-period culture. The book reproduces over a hundred works, mostly woodblock prints and illustrated books from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book is based on the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, which houses the largest collection of Japanese art in Canada, including more than 2,500 woodblock prints.

Author : Helen Merritt,Nanako Yamada
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 082481732X

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Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints by Helen Merritt,Nanako Yamada Pdf

"[An] impressive volume, with a valuable amount of information not otherwise available in one source." --Choice Companion volume to Merritt's Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints. This volume is a reference work that is both comprehensive and rigorously chronological.

Author : Andreas Marks
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 383658753X

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Japanese Woodblock Prints. 40th Ed by Andreas Marks Pdf

The Japanese woodblock print is a phenomenon with no Western equivalent, one where breathtaking landscapes exist alongside blush-inducing erotica; where demons and otherworldly creatures torment the living; and where sumo wrestlers, kabuki actors, and courtesans are rock stars. This condensed edition lifts the veil on a much-loved but little-...

Author : Rebecca Salter
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0824825535

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Japanese Woodblock Printing by Rebecca Salter Pdf

Of all the sophisticated traditional arts and crafts of Japan, woodblock prints are probably the most widely known in the West. The bold yet refined compositions are as fresh to the Western eye today as they were when they first came to the attention of the Impressionists in the nineteenth century. With their fluid lines, intricate carving and delicate colors, Japanese prints are still as fascinating as ever. In this book, Rebecca Salter takes us through the history of the Japanese woodblock, discusses the materials, tools, and papers available (and their Western equivalents) and shows how to get the most out of them through interesting step-by-step projects. The work of an international group of artists shows the varied and exciting prints being produced today.

Author : Andreas Marks
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781462905997

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Japanese Woodblock Prints by Andreas Marks Pdf

Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-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 Prints provides a detailed survey of all the famous ukiyo-e artists, along with over 500 full-color prints. Unlike previous examinations of this art form, Japanese Woodblock Prints includes detailed histories of the publishers of woodblock prints—who 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 success. Invaluable as a guide for ukiyo-e enthusiasts looking for detailed information about their favorite Japanese woodblock print artists and prints, it is also an ideal introduction for newcomers to the world of the woodblock print. This lavishly illustrated book will be a valued addition to the libraries of scholars, as well as the general art enthusiast.

Author : Tyler Brûlé,Andrew Tuck,Joe Pickard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0500971072

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The Monocle Book of Japan by Tyler Brûlé,Andrew Tuck,Joe Pickard Pdf

The Monocle team celebrates the endlessly fascinating and culturally rich country of Japan.