The Floating World

Author : C. Morgan Babst
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616207632

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The Floating World by C. Morgan Babst Pdf

“Set in New Orleans, this important and powerful novel follows the Boisdoré family . . . in the months after Katrina. A profound, moving and authentically detailed picture of the storm’s emotional impact on those who lived through it.” —People In this dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, C. Morgan Babst takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina and the life of a great city. As the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora Boisdoré refuses to leave the city. Her parents, Joe Boisdoré, an artist descended from freed slaves who became the city’s preeminent furniture makers, and his white “Uptown” wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, are forced to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic—the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself. This mystery is at the center of Babst’s haunting and profound novel. Cora’s sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the successful life she built in New York City to find her hometown in ruins and her family deeply alienated from one another. As Del attempts to figure out what happened to her sister, she must also reckon with the racial history of the city and the trauma of a disaster that was not, in fact, some random act of God but an avoidable tragedy visited on New Orleans’s most vulnerable citizens. Separately and together, each member of the Boisdoré clan must find the strength to remake home in a city forever changed. The Floating World is the Katrina story that needed to be told—one with a piercing, unforgettable loveliness and a vivid, intimate understanding of this particular place and its tangled past.

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307829061

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An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro Pdf

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.

Author : Julie Nelson Davis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824889333

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Picturing the Floating World by Julie Nelson Davis Pdf

Today we think of ukiyo-e—“the pictures of the floating world”—as masterpieces of Japanese art, highly prized throughout the world. Yet it is often said that ukiyo-e were little appreciated in their own time and were even used as packing material for ceramics. In Picturing the Floating World, Julie Nelson Davis debunks this myth and demonstrates that ukiyo-e was thoroughly appreciated as a field of artistic production, worthy of connoisseurship and canonization by its contemporaries. Putting these images back into their dynamic context, she shows how consumers, critics, and makers produced and sold, appraised and collected, and described and recorded ukiyo-e. She recovers this multilayered world of pictures in which some were made for a commercial market, backed by savvy entrepreneurs looking for new ways to make a profit, while others were produced for private coteries and high-ranking connoisseurs seeking to enrich their cultural capital. The book opens with an analysis of period documents to establish the terms of appraisal brought to ukiyo-e in late eighteenth-century Japan, mapping the evolution of the genre from a century earlier and the development of its typologies and the creation of a canon of makers—both of which have defined the field ever since. Organized around divisions of major technological and aesthetic developments, the book reveals how artistic practice and commercial enterprise were intertwined throughout ukiyo-e’s history, from its earliest imagery through the twentieth century. The depiction of particular subjects in and for the floating world of urban Edo and the process of negotiating this within the larger field of publishing are examined to further ground ukiyo-e as material culture, as commodities in a mercantile economy. Picturing the Floating World offers a new approach: a critical yet accessible analysis of the genre as it was developed in its social, cultural, and political milieu. The book introduces students, collectors, and enthusiasts to ukiyo-e as a genre under construction in its own time while contributing to our understanding of early modern visual production.

Author : Stephen Longstreet,Ethel Longstreet
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462921324

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Geishas and the Floating World by Stephen Longstreet,Ethel Longstreet Pdf

Geishas and the Floating World returns readers to a lost world of sensuality and seduction, rich with hedonism, abandon, and sexual and personal politics. "Floating World" refers to Japan's traditional Geisha pleasure districts, but also to the artistic and literary worlds associated with them. At the heart of the "Floating World" and the system it supported was an extensive network of talented courtesans and entertainers, typified by the still fascinating, enigmatic Geisha. Stephen and Ethel Longstreet bring the reader on an in-depth tour of the original and most infamous red-light district in Japan--the Yoshiwara district of old Tokyo that underwent tremendous changes during the more than three centuries of its existence. Beyond the erotic allure the district held, the Yoshiwara also fostered a rich culture and a much studied and revered artistic and literary tradition. This account is adorned with examples of fine woodblock prints and quotations from often bawdy, and always colorful, original sources that offer a gripping portrait of life within the pleasure zone. Geishas and the Floating World balances scholarly insights with a master storyteller's flair for the exploits and intrigues of people operating outside the confines of polite society. Stephen Mansfield's new introduction bridges time, examining gender realities and the Yoshiwara through contemporary eyes, highlighting often overlooked subtleties and the harsh realities associated with this glittering world.

Author : Adam L. Kern
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : UVA:X030107462

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Manga from the Floating World by Adam L. Kern Pdf

Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyôshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction widely read in late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in which the genre was produced and consumed with three annotated translations of works by major author-artist Santô Kyôden (1761-1816) that closely reproduce the experience of encountering the originals, Adam Kern offers a sustained close reading of the vibrant popular imagination of the mid-Edo period. The kibyôshi, Kern argues, became an influential form of political satire that seemed poised to transform the uniquely Edoesque brand of urban commoner culture into something more, perhaps even a national culture, until the shogunal government intervened. Based on extensive research using primary sources in their original Edo editions, the volume is copiously illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections. It serves as an introduction not only to the kibyôshi but also to the genre's readers and critics, narratological conventions, modes of visuality, format, and relationship to the modern Japanese comicbook (manga) and to the popular literature and wit of Edo. Filled with graphic puns and caricatures, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the more experienced student of Japanese cultural history.

Author : Janice Katz,Mami Hatayama
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300236910

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Painting the Floating World by Janice Katz,Mami Hatayama Pdf

From the 17th through the 19th century, artists in Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo) captured the metropolitan amusements of the floating world (ukiyo in Japanese) through depictions of subjects such as the beautiful women of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters and performers of the kabuki theater. In contrast to ukiyo-e prints by artists such as Katsushika Hokusai, which were widely circulated, ukiyo-e paintings were specially commissioned, unique objects that displayed the maker’s technical skill and individual artistic sensibility. Featuring more than 150 works from the celebrated Weston Collection, the most comprehensive of its kind in private hands and published here for the first time in English, this lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched volume addresses the genre of ukiyo-e painting in all its complexity. Individual essays explore topics such as shunga (erotica), mitate-e (images that parody or transform a well-known story or legend), and poetic inscriptions, revealing the crucial role that ukiyo-e painting played in a sophisticated urban culture.

Author : Sandy Kita
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015055445616

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Floating World of Ukiyo-E by Sandy Kita Pdf

Published to accompany an exhibition of the Library of Congress' collections of Ukiyo-e prints.

Author : Cynthia Kadohata
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Japanese Americans
ISBN : 0345367561

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The Floating World by Cynthia Kadohata Pdf

"Maks the debut of a luminious new voice in fiction." THE NEW YORK TIMES Olivia, the young narrator of this beautiful novel, and her Japanese-American family are constantly on the road, looking for a home in the 1950s. Then traveling becomes a kind of home, a place for her parents to work out their difficulties, in towns that barely linger in memory, hanging in the air among them as the part of a family history that reaches further back than they care to recall, but can't help remembering....

Author : John Reeve,British Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Color prints, Japanese
ISBN : UCSD:31822035615186

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Floating World by John Reeve,British Museum Pdf

Ukiyo-e are paintings and prints of 'the floating world' of Edo (Tokyo), which had transformed itself in just a century from a swampy village to a metropolis of about a million people. This book offers a glimpse of a vanished world that is fresh and visually rewarding to modern eyes.

Author : John H. Haig,Andrew N. Nelson
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 4805313978

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The Compact Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary by John H. Haig,Andrew N. Nelson Pdf

"This new compilation offers many advantages…As an example of a book design, little more could be asked of this volume."—Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies The Compact Nelson is an abridged edition of the revised New Nelson Dictionary, Dr. Andrew N. Nelson's award-winning classic work. An invaluable guide for learning Japanese, this kanji dictionary has the following features: 3,068 main character entries and more than 30,000 character compounds—all the Japanese characters and compounds needed for everyday use. The Universal Radical Index (URI) which permits the user to look up a character based not only on the main radical but any radical found in the character. This is the most thorough and reliable index for novice users. Cross-referencing with the Japan Industrial Standard (JIS) code and Morohashi's Dai Kanwa Jiten Definitions have been modernized to reflect current usage and translation. This revised editions is updated with additional characters, contemporary definitions, and an innovative radical index system. It sets new standards of excellence, easy–of–use, and reliability for Japanese language reference tools. This edition keeps pace with the evolution of the Japanese language and remains an indispensable tool for students and scholars of Japanese.

Author : Blaine Brownell
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568989962

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Matter in the Floating World by Blaine Brownell Pdf

It can be argued that Japan contains a higher number of internationally significant architects and designers relative to its geographic size than anywhere else in the world. Japanese designers regularly implement radical experiments in new materials and building systems that successfully address imminent energy and resource challenges. These technological achievements are combined with an acute awareness of the ephemerality of existence, creating a rich dialogue between the concrete and the abstract.

Author : John Warwicker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Graphic arts
ISBN : 3865210309

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The Floating World by John Warwicker Pdf

The Floating World: Ukiyo-e is the first monograph on Warwicker's work. Rather than simply collect old work from commercial commissions and personal projects, Warwicker has written and designed an extensive, original book which only occasionally references prior work.

Author : Jeannine Hall Gailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615956807

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She Returns to the Floating World by Jeannine Hall Gailey Pdf

SHE RETURNS TO THE FLOATING WORLD (Second Edition) is a book about transformation that examines two recurring motifs in Japanese folk tales and popular culture: "the woman who disappears" and the "older sister/savior." Many of the poems are persona poems spoken by characters from anime and manga, mythology, and fairy tales, like the story of the kitsune, or fox-woman, whose relationships are followed throughout the book. Gailey's abiding interest in female heroes and tales of transformation, love, and loss bristles to life with a cast of characters including wives who become foxes, sisters who become birds, and robots with souls. "I deeply admire the skill with which Jeannine Hall Gailey weaves myth and folklore into poems illuminating the realities of modern life. Gailey is, quite simply, one of my favorite American poets; and She Returns to the Floating World is her best collection yet." --Terri Windling, writer, editor, and artist ("The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" series, "The Armless Maiden," "The Endicott Studio")

Author : Don Domanski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0986621420

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Fetishes of the Floating World by Don Domanski Pdf

Author : Timothy Clark,Anne Nishimura Morse,Louise Erica Virgin,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Color prints, Japanese
ISBN : UCSD:31822022076566

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The Dawn of the Floating World, 1650-1765 by Timothy Clark,Anne Nishimura Morse,Louise Erica Virgin,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) Pdf