Images from the Floating World. The Japanese Print - Lane, Richard 2.10kg

Hardcover. English. Chartwell Books. 1978. 364pp.

Good condition in hardcover with dw.

Since its discovery by the Western World in the mid-nineteenth century, the Japanese woodblock print has awakened the interest of a growing number of collectors and connoisseurs. In bust portraits, genre and Kabuki scenes, landscapes and erotica, the artists of this hybrid school of painting and print design achieved a mastery previously unknown in these fields, forming a fitting conclusion to the long and glowing tradition of classical Japanese art. In addition, Ukiyo-e gives an incomparable record of Japanese life in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, before and after the opening of Japan to the West. Dr. Lane describes the illustrated books, erotic albums and paintings that fall within the school of Ukiyo-e. Numerous Japanese seals and signatures are reproduced in the margins, and important series such as the "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji" are illustrated in full to aid scholars, collectors and art lovers.