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Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints
Helen MerrittNanako Yamada
其他書名
Reflections of Meiji Culture
出版University of Hawaii Press, 2000-07-01
主題Art / History / GeneralArt / Techniques / Painting
ISBN08248207389780824820732
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bsfunOb2HOIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture is a pioneer exploration of a previously neglected genre of late-Meiji art: the type of handmade multicolor book frontispieces known as kuchi-e. Early European collectors assumed that the Japanese woodblock tradition came to an end in Western-tainted prints. Although many crudely colored prints of subjects such as steam trains and men in derby hats did flood the Japanese market, the works introduced in this amply illustrated and readable volume make clear that there was another class of popular woodblock tradition unknown to foreigners that continued into the early twentieth century. In their examination of this late flowering of the woodblock print, the authors provide not only an introduction to a popular artistic tradition but also a new lens through which to view Japanese life at the end of the nineteenth century.