Early ukiyo-e master : Okumura Masanobu / Robert Vergez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vergez, Robert, 1924-

Contributor:

Okumura, Masanobu, 1686-1764.

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

奥村, 政信(1686-1764)

Series:

Great Japanese art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Okumura, Masanobu, 1686-1764.

Okumura, Masanobu.

Ukiyoe.

Local Subjects:

Okumura, Masanobu, 1686-1764.

Penn Provenance:

Venturi, Robert; Brown, Denise Scott

Physical Description:

48 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 37 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Kodansha International/USA, through Harper & Row, 1983.

Summary:

"The whole of the colorful and boisterous history of ukiyo-e - the art of Japanese woodblock prints that arose in the seventeenth century and declined in he nineteenth - can be virtually summarized in the works of two great artists, Okumura Masanobu and Katsushika Hokusai. Both artists lived to an advanced age and were profusely productive to the very end of their careers, and, more importantly, they were both geniuses at innovation, creating entirely original compositions and designs or adopting and transforming pictorial devices borrowed from Western art."--from Amazon.com

Contents:

Masanobu's Formative Years: the Genroku Epoch

Masanobu the Publisher: The Kyoho Era

Masanobu Unrivaled: the 1740s

Masanobu's Last Years: The Horeki Era

Print Sizes

Notes to the Illustration

Selected bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 48).

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

ISBN:

0870115871

9780870115875

0870115642

9780870115646

4770010877

9784770010872

OCLC:

9080981