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One thousand years of manga / Brigitte Koyama-Richard ; [translated from the French by David Radzinowicz].
Fine Arts Library PN6790.J3 K6913 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koyama-Richard, Brigitte.
- Standardized Title:
- Mille ans de manga. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Comic books, strips, etc--Japan--History and criticism.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Art, Japanese.
- Graphic novels.
- Japan.
- Japan--Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.
- Graphic novels--Japan--History and criticism.
- Art, Japanese--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Physical Description:
- 247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- English-language edition.
- Other Title:
- Manga
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Flammarion ; [New York] : distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, [2007]
- Summary:
- Traces the history of Japanese art from the seventh century through the present, offering insight into its long-time role in Japanese culture and the social factors that are shaping its development in the modern world.
- Contents:
- The origins of manga
- The magic of the scroll: from the earliest caricatures to the onset of the comic strip
- The birth of the Japanese print: the golden age of caricature
- The dawn of a new type of caricature: Japan opens up to the West
- The rise of the comic strip to the second world war
- Tezuka Osamu: the "god" of modern manga
- Manga today
- Selected portraits of manga artists
- From the manga to anime: the work of Studio Ghibli
- Reciprocal influences
- Glossary
- Timeline
- Our ancestors the mangaka
- Chronology
- Recent statistics from Japan
- Selected bibliography.
- Notes:
- "Simultaneously published in French as Mille ans de manga"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-247).
- ISBN:
- 2080300296
- 9782080300294
- OCLC:
- 181069637
- Publisher Number:
- 99954231053
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