Utamaro Revealed

Author : Gina Collia-Suzuki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Ukiyoe
ISBN : 0955979609

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Utamaro Revealed by Gina Collia-Suzuki Pdf

Kitagawa Utamaro is one of the most well-known figures in the history of Japanese art, renowned for his portraits of beautiful women. He is recognised as having been the leading light of the Ukiyo-e School during its golden age, and his influence upon the work of Western artists has been beyond measure. He produced in the region of 2,000 woodblock prints, approximately one third of which take their subjects from the licensed pleasure quarter of Edo, with the remainder being made up of images of popular beauties, pairs of famous lovers, historical and mythical figures, domestic scenes, and the physiognomic studies for which he is best-known. With 90 reproductions of the artist s prints, designs grouped and discussed according to subject, and with illustrations of publishers marks, artist s signatures, and the names of figures commonly inscribed upon his works, this reference guide provides the most comprehensive resource for identifying the subjects portrayed in Utamaro s prints to date."

Author : John Gibbs,Douglas Pye
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137585738

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The Long Take by John Gibbs,Douglas Pye Pdf

This is the first book in English exclusively devoted to the long take, one of the key elements of film style. Increasingly visible in contemporary international media, the long take currently attracts a good deal of attention in criticism and commentary. There are also significant strands of film theory in which duration has become a recurrent concern. In keeping with the approach of Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television, this collection is devoted to the detailed critical analysis of specific long takes, explored in terms of how they function within their contexts, how they shape the visual field, the meanings they generate and the effects they create. The Long Take: Critical Approaches brings together essays by established and emerging scholars (all but one essay commissioned for this volume) in an exciting collection that analyses works from a range of filmmaking traditions, from the 1930s to the present day, selected to represent varied long take practices and to explore associated debates.

Author : Julie Nelson Davis
Publisher : Julie Nelson Davis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015073871298

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Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty by Julie Nelson Davis Pdf

One of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") in late-eighteenth-century Japan, Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?–1806) was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women. In images showing courtesans, geisha, housewives, and others, Utamaro made the practice of distinguishing social types into a connoisseurial art. In 1804, at the height of his success, Utamaro, along with several colleagues, was manacled and put under house arrest for fifty days for making prints of the military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi enjoying the pleasures of the "floating world." The event put into stark relief the challenge that popular representation posed to political authority and, according to some sources, may have precipitated Utamaro’s sudden decline. In this book Julie Nelson Davis makes a close study of selected print sets, and by drawing on a wide range of period sources reinterprets Utamaro in the context of his times. Reconstructing the place of the ukiyo-e artist within the world of the commercial print market, she demonstrates how Utamaro’s images participated in the economies of entertainment and desire in the city of Edo (modern-day Tokyo). Offering a new approach to issues of the status of the artist and the construction of identity, gender, sexuality, and celebrity in the Edo period, Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty is a significant contribution to the field and a key work for readers interested in Japanese art and culture.

Author : Gina Collia-Suzuki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0955979633

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The Complete Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro by Gina Collia-Suzuki Pdf

In Reading Duncan Reading, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety of influence writers experience as they grapple with the burden of being original, but for Duncan this was another matter altogether. Indeed, according to Stephen Collis, "No other poet has so openly expressed his admiration for and gratitude toward his predecessors." Part one emphasizes Duncan's acts of reading, tracing a variety of his derivations--including Sarah Ehlers's demonstration of how Milton shaped Duncan's early poetic aspirations, Siobhán Scarry's unveiling of the many sources (including translation and correspondence) drawn into a single Duncan poem, and Clément Oudart's exploration of Duncan's use of "foreign words" to fashion "a language to which no one is native." In part two, the volume turns to examinations of poets who can be seen to in some way derive from Duncan--and so in turn reveals another angle of Duncan's derivative poetics. J. P. Craig traces Nathaniel MacKey's use of Duncan's "would-be shaman," Catherine Martin sees Duncan's influence in Susan Howe's "development of a poetics where the twin concepts of trespass and 'permission' hold comparable sway," and Ross Hair explores poet Ronald Johnson's "reading to steal." These and other essays collected here trace paths of poetic affiliation and affinity and hold them up as provocative possibilities in Duncan's own inexhaustible work.

Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0824808738

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The Floating World, rev. ed. by James A. Michener Pdf

The Floating World by novelist James A. Michener is a classic work on the Japanese print of the Edo period (1615-1868). Mr. Michener shows how the Japanese printmakers, cut off from revivifying contacts with the art of the rest of the world and hampered by their own governmental restrictions, were able to keep their art vital for two centuries through their vigor and determination. For this new edition, Howard A. Link updates the scholarship and expands on many theoretical aspects introduced in Michener's study.

Author : Edmond de Goncourt
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780429281

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Utamaro by Edmond de Goncourt Pdf

If sensuality had a name, it would be without doubt Utamaro. Delicately underlining the Garden of Pleasures that once constituted Edo, Utamaro, by the richness of his fabrics, the swan-like necks of the women, the mysterious looks, evokes in a few lines the sensual pleasure of the Orient. If some scenes discreetly betray lovers’ games, a great number of his shungas recall that love in Japan is first and foremost erotic.

Author : Ernest Fenollosa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : ART
ISBN : HARVARD:FL2BZE

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The Masters of Ukioye by Ernest Fenollosa Pdf

This art catalog was written for an exhibition of Japanese paintings and prints at The Fine Art Buildings in New York City, 1896.

Author : Melinda Takeuchi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 080474355X

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The Artist as Professional in Japan by Melinda Takeuchi Pdf

"The book also addresses issues of canon formation: by what complex process are some artists and objects singled out to communicate rhetorical or aesthetic meaning while others lapse into the background."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Utamaro Kitagawa
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780870993688

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画本虫撰 by Utamaro Kitagawa Pdf

Author : Takeshi Moriyama
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004243798

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Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society by Takeshi Moriyama Pdf

Suzuki Bokushi (1770-1842) was an elite villager in Echigo, a snowy province of Japan. Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society presents a vivid picture of the life and world of this rural commoner, focusing on his interaction with the changing social and cultural environment of the late Tokugawa period (1603-1868). Bokushi's life and texts challenge notions of the rigidity of social boundaries between the urban and the rural, between social statuses, and between cultural and intellectual communities. However, his activities were still restrained by the external environment because of geographical remoteness, infrastractural limitations, political restrictions, cultural norms and the complexities of human relationships. His life exemplifies both the potentiality and the restraint of his historical moment for a well-placed member of the rural elite.

Author : William H. Bridges, IV,Nina Cornyetz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498505482

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Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production by William H. Bridges, IV,Nina Cornyetz Pdf

This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders.

Author : Ruth Hsu,Cynthia G. Franklin,Suzanne Kosanke
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824823648

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Re-Placing America by Ruth Hsu,Cynthia G. Franklin,Suzanne Kosanke Pdf

This collection of essays and poems examines various recent literary texts and cultural arenas in North America and the Asia and Pacific regions for what they reveal of the ongoing struggles of indigenous people and people of colour for justice and autonomy.

Author : Robert Treat Paine,Alexander Coburn Soper
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300053339

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The Art and Architecture of Japan by Robert Treat Paine,Alexander Coburn Soper Pdf

Once slighted as mere copying from China, the arts of Japan are now seen as a unique alternation of advances and withdrawals. At times the islanders produced Chinese-style works of great beauty, unmatched on the continent. When they chose to be independent, their art differs at every level. Sculpture, and even more painting, are concrete, sensuous, and emotional, speaking directly to all.

Author : Sadao Kikuchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Color prints, Japanese
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030832492

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Ukiyo-e Prints by Sadao Kikuchi Pdf

Author : 小林忠
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Color prints
ISBN : UOM:39015029113936

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Utamaro by 小林忠 Pdf

"Who was the man behind the pseudonym "Utamaro"? We know that he was one of the greatest artists of eighteenth-century Japan, and that he was a master portraitist of women in the woodblock-print tradition known as ukiyo-e. But as for the man himself, we know almost nothing. The little there is - gleaned from contemporary books, miscellaneous writings, temple registers - is brought together in this book to present as clear a picture of Utamaro's life as modern researchers are capable of. Utamaro is placed in his cultural setting - the pleasure-loving urban culture of eighteenth-century Tokyo, the shogun's capital and the de facto center of Japan." "Utamaro's world was that of teahouse girls and courtesans whose fame and popularity can only be compared, in modern terms, to those of a movie actress whose name is on every man's lips. His was a world of popular literature and art, of publishers competing for the work of the most talked-about writers and artists. This world, however, was under the constant scrutiny of the authorities, and near the end of his career, Utamaro fell afoul of the government's proscription of certain subject matter, and he was sentenced to three days in prison and fifty days in hand chains." "But Utamaro's life is only one theme of this book. The other is the development of his art, the perfection of his depictions of women that enabled him to capture subtle moods and differences of character. The prints of women produced by the ukiyo-e artists preceding Utamaro showed expressionless beauties of little individuality. It was against this that Utamaro rebelled, creating such prints as that of the kashi, one of the lowest ranking of courtesans - in fact, a mere prostitute. Recognizing within himself the power to see and depict the individual behind the outward appearance, Utamaro added to some of his prints the notation "Studies in Physiognomic Judgment of Character by Utamaro." Modern opinion tends to agree with Utamaro's assessment of himself, and his reputation as an artist of the inner woman has firmly established him in the top ranks of the ukiyo-e world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved