Takehisa Yumeji
Title | Takehisa Yumeji PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Hotei Pub |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2015-04 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9789004279827 |
Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) is one of the most famous artists of Japan, where six museums are dedicated to his work as a painter, printmaker and illustrator. This publication is the first publication outside Japan dedicated solely to Takehisa Yumeji's life and prolific oeuvre.
Yumeji Modern
Title | Yumeji Modern PDF eBook |
Author | Nozomi Naoi |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2020-04-30 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 029574684X |
The hugely popular Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884–1934) is an emblematic figure of Japan’s rapidly changing cultural milieu in the early twentieth century. His graphic works include leftist and antiwar illustrations in socialist bulletins, wrenching portrayals of Tokyo after the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, and fashionable images of beautiful women—referred to as “Yumeji-style beauties”—in books and magazines that targeted a new demographic of young female consumers. Yumeji also played a key role in the reinvention of the woodblock medium. As his art and designs proliferated in Japan’s mass media, Yumeji became a recognizable brand. In the first full-length English-language study of Yumeji’s work, Nozomi Naoi examines the artist’s role in shaping modern Japanese identity. Addressing his output from the start of his career in 1905 to the 1920s, when his productivity peaked, Yumeji Modern introduces for the first time in English translation a substantial body of Yumeji’s texts, including diary entries, poetry, essays, and commentary, alongside his illustrations. Naoi situates Yumeji’s graphic art within the emerging media landscape from 1900s through the 1910s, when novel forms of reprographic communication helped create new spaces of visual culture and image circulation. Yumeji’s legacy and his present-day following speak to the broader, ongoing implications of his work with respect to commercial art, visual culture, and print media.
Takehisa Yumeji
Title | Takehisa Yumeji PDF eBook |
Author | Yumeji Takehisa |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1972 |
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Parallel Modernism
Title | Parallel Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Chinghsin Wu |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2019-11-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520299825 |
This significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a “parallel modernism” that was visually similar to Euroamerican modernism, but developed according to its own internal logic. Using the art and thought of prominent Japanese modern artist Koga Harue (1895–1933) as a lens to understand this process, Chinghsin Wu explores how watercolor, cubism, expressionism, and surrealism emerged and developed in Japan in ways that paralleled similar trends in the west, but also rejected and diverged from them. In this first English-language book on Koga Harue, Wu provides close readings of virtually all of the artist’s major works and provides unprecedented access to the critical writing about modernism in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s through primary source documentation, including translations of period art criticism, artist statements, letters, and journals.
Ten Nights' Dreams and Our Cat's Grave
Title | Ten Nights' Dreams and Our Cat's Grave PDF eBook |
Author | Sōseki Natsume |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1934 |
Genre | Dreams |
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Takehisa Yumeji
Title | Takehisa Yumeji PDF eBook |
Author | Yumeji Takehisa |
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Pages | |
Release | 1985 |
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An Artistic Exile
Title | An Artistic Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Geremie Barmé |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2002-12-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520208322 |
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