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Japanese Kite Prints: Selections from the Skinner Collection

Japanese Kite Prints: Selections from the Skinner Collection

Stevenson, John

Hardcover

Asian ArtGeneral ArtPrintmaking

Publisher Price: $50.00

ISBN10: 0295984546
ISBN13: 9780295984544
Publisher: Drachen Foundation
Published: Aug 1 2004
Pages: 200
Weight: 3.97
Height: 0.91 Width: 10.22 Depth: 12.34
Language: English

Color woodblock prints vibrantly convey the popular urban culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Edo, now called Tokyo. In a book that brings together two of Edo's most colorful traditions, prints and kites, John Stevenson celebrates the charm and significance of the mass-produced but often elegant broadsheets known as ukiyo-e. The term means pictures of the floating world, a pun on a Buddhist concept of the fleeting world of desires that is, coincidentally but poetically, appropriate for a study of kites borne on the wind. Edo artists experimented with woodblock-printing techniques during the eighteenth century as kite-flying became increasingly popular. Each influenced the other: kite-makers copied woodblock-print designs to decorate their creations of bamboo, cloth, and paper, and printers used images of kites in their designs.

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