| Title:
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THE ACTOR'S IMAGE
PRINT MAKERS OF THE KATSUKAMA SCHOOL |
| By: |
Timothy Clark, Donald Jenkins, Osamu Ueda |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£110.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691036276 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691036274 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 May, 1994 |
| Pages: |
504 |
| Description: |
Surveying the woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e, produced in 18th-and 19th-century Tokyo, this catalogue offers 880 illustrations from the Art Institute of Chicago's Buckingham Collection, along with interpretive essays placing these prints in their historical and cultural context. |
| Synopsis: |
The "floating world"--the closely related pleasure and entertainment districts of Tokyo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--embodied and idealized fashion, chic, and urbanity for its habitu |
| Illustrations: |
880 illus. Including 136 in color |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |