Catalogues of Japanese Works of Art and Colour Prints

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)
Publisher
Pages 622
Release 1974
Genre
ISBN

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Catalogues of Sale

Catalogues of Sale
Title Catalogues of Sale PDF eBook
Author Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
Publisher
Pages 40
Release 1974
Genre Art
ISBN

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Netsuke Masks

Netsuke Masks
Title Netsuke Masks PDF eBook
Author Raymond Bushell
Publisher Weatherhill, Incorporated
Pages 206
Release 1995
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 9780834803411

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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

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

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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

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

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Exhibition of paintings, lacquerwork, ceramics, textiles, calligraphy, and other media all in the Rinpa style from 1600 to the present day.

Picasso

Picasso
Title Picasso PDF eBook
Author Pablo Picasso
Publisher Silvana Editoriale
Pages 335
Release 2009
Genre Art
ISBN 9788836613571

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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

Elephant Skull
Title Elephant Skull PDF eBook
Author Henry Moore
Publisher
Pages 84
Release 1970
Genre Etching
ISBN

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