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The Actor's Image: Printmakers of the Katsukawa School

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The Actor's Image: Printmakers of the Katsukawa School - Clark, Timothy Thornburn, and Jenkins, Donald, and Ueda, Osamu
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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???s, 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 ...

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The Actor's Image: Printmakers of the Katsukawa School 1994, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691036274

Hardcover