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Paperback. Zustand: Gut. 95 p.: Ill. Die Broschur ist minimal berieben. Sonst aber ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ The brochure is minimally rubbed. Otherwise, however, a good and clean copy. - This is the first series of books to gather together the full panorama of ukiyo-e"pictures of the floating world" from its inception in early genre paintings to the versatile genius of such masters as Hiroshige. Each book examines a specific master, style or medium and has sixty-four pages of full-color reproductions, many available outside Japan for the first time. Masterworks of Ukiyo-e will provide collectors and scholars with excellent quick reference sources, and readers with no previous knowledge ofjapanese art with an unusually fine and specific introduction to its appreciationat a remarkably low price. The Decadents: Kunisada Kuniyoshi Eisen: The little-known ukiyo-e of the last years of the Edo period show a striking change in style when compared with earlier worKs.This new style (iki) consisted in an elaboration of detail, use of brighter colors, a distortion in the body form of the women of the hijin-ga, and a general trend toward realism and heaviness of atmosphere. Just before the Meiji Restoration, the culture of Edo was in a state of general decline and decadence. The Fokugawa shogunate tried desperately to reassert its authority through a series of restrictive measures, the Tempo Reforms, but to no avail. The ukiyo-e, which frequently portrayed beautiful courtesans and kabuki actors, also came under sharp attack, and feeble attempts were made to change bijin-ga into didactic works. But this, too, failed, and the bijin-ga soon became even more sumptuous and suggestive. The early idealized, graceful beauty was replaced by a contorted, sensual coquette, the last beauty of the ukiyo-e before its demise in the Meiji Restoration. Kunisada, Kuniyoshi and Eisen are all representatives of the iki of late Edo, and all the technical virtuosity and stylization of the age are apparent in their works. But the authors present each of these artists as individuals with personalized styles of their own, and delightful eccentricities. This volume offers a full selection of their works in sixty-five pages of color plates extending not only to bijin-ga, but to landscapes and animal and fish pictures as well. The text will also provide a new appreciation of the relationship between social conditions, production techniques, and the artistic taste of the little- known decadent period. Juzo Suzuki received his B.A. from the University of Tokyo in 1941, and is presently the director of the Social Sciences Department of the National Diet Library in Tokyo. He has published six previous books on Japanese prints including Sharaku for Kodansha International. Isaburo Oka graduated from the Literature Department of Tokyo University in 1941 in aesthetics and art history. He is currently chief of the Second Research Room, Art Department, Tokyo National Cultural Properties Research Institute. He has previously published works on Hirosliige and late ukiyo-e. John Bester graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and has been in Japan since 1953. teaching, writing, and translating. He was chief translator for the Japan Quarterly and has translated numerous art books and works of literature for Kodansha International. ISBN 9780870110986 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 414.