Opis: Art, Japanese Woodblock Prints - Andreas Marks

From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of Japanese art. In all its sensuality, freedom, and effervescence, the woodblock print is single-handedly credited with the wave of japonaiserie that first enthralled France and, later, all of Europe—but often remains misunderstood as an “exotic” artifact that helped inspire Western creativity.

The fact is that the Japanese woodblock print is a phenomenon of which there exists no Western equivalent. Some of the most disruptive ideas in modern art—including, as Karl Marx put it, that “all that is solid melts into air”—were invented in Japan in the 1700s and expressed like never before in the designs of such masters as Hokusai, Utamaro, and Hiroshige in the early 19th century.

This book lifts the veil on a much-loved but little-understood

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Szczegóły: Art, Japanese Woodblock Prints - Andreas Marks

Nazwa: Art, Japanese Woodblock Prints
Autor: Andreas Marks
Wydawnictwo: Taschen
Kod paskowy: 9783754400661
Ilość stron: 630
Format: 350 x 265 x 70
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 4.45 kg

Recenzje: Art, Japanese Woodblock Prints - Andreas Marks