Reflections of Meiji Culture
Edición de la obra Woodblock kuchi-e prints
| Autor | Helen Merritt, Nanako Yamada |
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| Editorial | University of Hawaii Press |
| Fecha de publicación | July 2000 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 284 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780824820732 |
| ISBN-10 | 0824820738 |
| OCLC | 41476767 |
| LCCN | 99032145 |
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"Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture is a pioneer exploration of a previously neglected genre of late Meiji art: the type of handmade multicolor book frontispieces known as kuchi-e. Early European collectors assumed that the Japanese woodblock tradition came to an end in Western-tainted prints. Although many crudely colored prints of subjects such as steam trains and men in derby hats did flood the Japanese market, the works introduced in this readable volume make clear that there was another class of popular woodblock tradition unknown to foreigners that continued into the early twentieth century. In their examination of this late flowering of the woodblock print, the authors provide not only an introduction to a popular artistic tradition but also a new lens through which to view Japanese life at the end of the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.