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Designed for pleasure : the world of Edo Japan in prints and paintings, 1680-1860 / edited by Julia Meech and Jane Oliver ; with essays by John T. Carpenter ... [and others].
Fine Arts Library N7353.6.U35 D47 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868--Exhibitions.
- Art, Japanese.
- Ukiyoe--Exhibitions.
- Ukiyoe.
- Manners and customs.
- Japan--Social life and customs--1600-1868--Exhibitions.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America ; Seattle : In association with University of Washington Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- A Mirror on the Floating World / Donald Jenkins
- Hishikawa Moronobu: tracking down an elusive master / David Waterhouse
- The original source (accept no substitutes!): Okumura Masanobu / Sarah E. Thompson
- Suzuki Harunobu: the cult and culture of color / Allen Hockley
- Katsukawa Shunshō: Ukiyo-e paintings for the samurai elite / Timothy Clark
- Tsutaya Jūzaburō: master publisher / Julie Nelson Davis
- The literary network: private commissions for Hokusai and his circle / John T. Carpenter
- Designed for pleasure: Ukiyo-e as material culture / David Pollack.
- Notes:
- Issued in connection with an exhibition held Feb. 27-May 4, 2008, Asia Society and Museum, New York, New York.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295987866
- 0295987863
- OCLC:
- 173502780
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