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Dangerous Beauties and Dutiful Wives: Popular Portraits of Women in Japan, 1905-1925

Dangerous Beauties and Dutiful Wives: Popular Portraits of Women in Japan, 1905-1925

Brown, Kendall

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Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art

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ISBN10: 0486476391
ISBN13: 9780486476391
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Mar 17 2011
Pages: 128
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.35 Width: 8.39 Depth: 10.91
Language: English
This captivating gallery offers rare glimpses of Japanese culture during the early years of the 20th century. Drawn from popular women's magazines of the Taishô period, its kuchi-e (frontispiece pictures) of bijin (beauties) represent a variety of artists, from the visual poetry of famous painters to more prosaic efforts by anonymous designers. Printed in the era's latest techniques of color lithography and offset printing, these kuchi-e bijin were created for mass production, yet they echo the form and appeal of woodblock prints from earlier generations. Their fashions are new enough to be exciting but sufficiently traditional to be reassuringly familiar. Embracing noble ideals and modern reality, the kuchi-e bijin suggest both the aspirations and the mundane truths of their audience, combining the sense of fine art and the sensibilities of popular illustration.

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