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Title: The Actor's Image: Print Makers of the Kaksukawa School

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Language:        English

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Weight:        5.7 Pounds
Height:         11.5 Inches
Width:          10 Inches
Thickness:    2.3 Inches



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The "floating world"--the closely related pleasure and entertainment districts of Tokyo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--embodied and idealized fashion, chic, and urbanity for its habitu‚es, and inspired a profusion of woodblock prints depicting renowned courtesans and adored matinee idols. Considered ephemera in their time, these prints are treasured works of art today. In this volume of "floating world prints" (ukiyo-e), the authors present a selection of Kabuki actor portraits and theater scenes from The Art Institute of Chicago's world-renowned Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints. Together with interpretive essays that place the prints in their historical and cultural context, the authors offer a catalog of 880 prints, 136 of them in color, containing the most complete and up- to-date information available about each print. Donald Jenkins's essay explains printmaking and explores the lives and milieu of the Katsukawa school print makers. Timothy Clark, in his essay, vividly depicts the world of Kabuki theater and describes a particular production of a popular play, from the vantage points of various participants. Osamu Ueda has provided dates and identification for the subjects of many of the prints in the collection, as well as biographies of the leading Kabuki actors and brief lives of the printmakers of the Katsukawa school.



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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The Actor's Image: Print Makers of the Kaksukawa School and it was written by Timothy Clark, Osamu Ueda. This edition of The Actor's Image: Print Makers of the Kaksukawa School is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is May 1994 and it has a suggested retail price of $167. There are pages in the book and it was published by Princeton Univ Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 0691036276 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780691036274. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.