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ASIAN ART

PUBLISHER
SKIRA

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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 368 pgs / 460 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2023 p. 40   

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ISBN 9788857249971 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CAD $65.00

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Turin, Italy
Società Promotrice Belle Arti, 02/23/23–06/25/23

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Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige

Geisha, Samurai and the Culture of Pleasure

Edited by Francesco Paolo Campione, Marco Fagioli, Moira Luraschi.

Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige

A thematic tour of the Edo period’s incredible innovations through the works of its woodblock virtuosos

The Edo period (1603–1868) was an exceptionally productive era in Japan from a historical and artistic standpoint; later its influence would extend beyond the archipelago, as far as the West, where it gave rise to a passion for Japanese aesthetics and culture. The term ukiyo-e, which translates as "pictures of a floating world," refers to the woodblock color prints that were first created in the Edo period, by combining the talents of painters like Utamaro, Hokusai and Hiroshige with the absolute mastery of block carvers and printers.
Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige: Geisha, Samurai and the Culture of Pleasure offers a chance to discover the world of Japanese ukiyo-e prints through over 300 works by some of the most important artists, and the themes that characterize them: from elegant and beautiful women to delicate flowers and birds, famous kabuki actors, valiant samurai and even erotic subjects with their insouciant celebration of love.


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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/26/2024

A gorgeous new book on the woodblock virtuosos of the Edo period

A gorgeous new book on the woodblock virtuosos of the Edo period

Ohara Koson’s 1926 polychrome woodblock print “Scops Owl in Flight under Cherry Blossom and Full Moon” is reproduced from Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige: Geisha, Samurai and the Culture of Pleasure, Skira’s scholarly yet beautifully-produced survey of 460 of the Edo period’s greatest woodblock prints—some elegant, some delicate and others brazenly erotic. Poetic landscapes, flowers and birds, Kabuki dramas, the female universe, the art of love, warriors and heroes all make appearances in prints that exemplify the concept of ukiyo-e, or the floating world, which seventeenth-century Japanese novelist Asai Riyoi described as “living only for the moment, savoring the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves, singing songs, drinking wine and diverting oneself in simply floating, unconcerned by the prospect of imminent poverty, buoyant and carefree like a gourd carried along with the current of the river…” continue to blog


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