Catalogues of Japanese Works of Art and Colour Prints
Title | Catalogues of Japanese Works of Art and Colour Prints PDF eBook |
Author | Sotheby & Co. (London, England) |
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Pages | 622 |
Release | 1974 |
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Catalogues of Sale
Title | Catalogues of Sale PDF eBook |
Author | Sotheby & Co. (London, England) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Art |
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Netsuke Masks
Title | Netsuke Masks PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Bushell |
Publisher | Weatherhill, Incorporated |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9780834803411 |
Netsuke are small toggles or buckles carved from wood or ivory. The Japanese in the seventeenth century used them to fasten pouches to their kimono belt, since kimonos had no pockets. This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on an exciting tour of one type of netsuke—those carved to look like the masks used by stage actors.
Japan and Britain after 1859
Title | Japan and Britain after 1859 PDF eBook |
Author | Olive Checkland |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2003-08-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1135786186 |
In the years following Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation from the world, Japan developed a new relationship with the West, and especially with Britain, where relations grew to be particularly close. The Japanese, embarrassed by their perceived comparative backwardness, looked to the West to learn modern industrial techniques, including the design and engineering skills which underpinned them. At the same time, taking great pride in their own culture, they exhibited and sold high quality products of traditional Japanese craftsmanship in the West, stimulating a thirst for, and appreciation of, Japanese arts and crafts. This book examines the two-way bridge-building cultural exchange which took place between Japan and Britain in the years after 1859 and into the early years of the twentieth century. Topics covered include architecture, industrial design, prints, painting and photographs, together with a consideration of Japanese government policy, the Japan-Britain Exhibition of 1910, and commercial spin-offs. In addition, there are case studies of key individuals who were particularly influential in fostering British-Japanese cultural bridges in this period.
Designing Nature
Title | Designing Nature PDF eBook |
Author | John T. Carpenter |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art, Japanese |
ISBN | 1588394719 |
Exhibition of paintings, lacquerwork, ceramics, textiles, calligraphy, and other media all in the Rinpa style from 1600 to the present day.
Picasso
Title | Picasso PDF eBook |
Author | Pablo Picasso |
Publisher | Silvana Editoriale |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9788836613571 |
Il catalogo riproduce interamente la Suite 347, di proprietà di Bancaja di Valencia. Tutte le incisioni, appunto 347, realizzate da Picasso tra marzo e ottobre del 1968, rappresentano il "diario di bordo" di un uomo che "senza curarsi delle proprie ansie o di quelle profonde inquietudini che spesso cercava, portandole a galla, di esorcizzare," si apriva "alla percezione del mondo esterno, quel mondo che a un uomo di quasi 87 anni appariva folle, grottesco. Aveva visto ben altro!" La Suite è composta da quattro grandi nuclei tematici: La Celestina, ovvero le stampe selezionate da Picasso per un'edizione della Celestina di Fernando de Rojas, pubblicata dall'atelier Crommelynck nel 1971; Picasso, la sua opera e il suo pubblico, una sorta di presentazione dei soggetti principali e di tutte le tecniche e gli stili utilizzati; Mitologia e circo, in cui affiorano la mitologia mediterranea e i tradizionali temi picassiani: il Don Chisciotte, i personaggi di Rembrandt, Raffaello, le mezzane ecc...; Il pittore e le modelle, incisioni che rimandano a temi della Suite Vollard e a quelli ripresi nella Suite 156 con Degas e Poussin nella parte di voyeur, i moschettieri e le donne rembrandtiane. Inoltre, il tema di Raffaello e la Fornarina, già trattato da Ingres, viene affrontato da Picasso con maggiore ironia e malizia. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali
Elephant Skull
Title | Elephant Skull PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Moore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Etching |
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