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Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, the school of the Japanese colour-print artists

Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, the school of the Japanese colour-print artists

Amsden, Dora

Paperback

Chinese HistoryIndian & South Asian ArtPainting Instruction

ISBN10: 9389247446
ISBN13: 9789389247442
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 29 2019
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Step into Edo Japan's theatres, teahouses, and riversides, where beauty is made for the moment and captured forever in line and colour. Ink, paper, and passing life. In Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, Dora Amsden writes with the curiosity of a print-room visitor and the discernment of a seasoned eye, offering art history essays that map the rise of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and the craft of Japanese color printmaking. Moving from the early masters to the great names of 19th century Japan, she traces how floating world artists shaped popular taste, urban storytelling, and modern design, with thoughtful attention to Hokusai and Hiroshige. The result reads like a compact museum art catalog: clear, vivid, and rewarding to dip into, whether you are starting out, building a print collectors guide, or seeking an art students reference to style, technique, and subject. Amsden keeps the language approachable, turning technique into readable detail: pigments, blocks, registration, and the quiet drama of weather and water in print. It sits well beside an illustrated art reference, yet stands alone as a graceful introduction for anyone drawn to Edo period Japan and the collector's world of connoisseurship. Its historical value is twofold: a record of how the West first learned to see these prints, and a window onto the Japonisme art movement that followed. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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