Sachgebiete

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264 S.; zahlr. Illustr. (auch farbig); 28 cm. Originalleinen mit farb. illustr. Schutzumschlag.

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Gutes Ex.; Umschlag stw. berieben; innen wenige Bleistift-Anstreichungen. - Englisch. - Mit illustrierten Vorsätzen. - Exquisitely illustrated with 160 black and white reproductions and 24 pages in full color. ... In Japanese Prints and Western Painters Frank Whitford provides for the first time in one volume a full historical account of Japanese prints together with an analysis of their impact on western artists, espec-ially those in nineteenth-century France. Western art owes an enormous debt to the influence of Japanese prints, for it was at this time that the great influx of plentiful and inexpensive prints from the Orient planted the stylistic precedents for Post-impressionism in the minds of Europe's finest painters. Beginning with an analysis of the evolution of printmaking in Japan, Mr. Whitford offers fascinating accounts of the chief exponents of the art-Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro and others-and their woodblock color prints depicting the Japanese landscape, the exotic world of the brothels, the Kabuki theater, sumo wrestlers and scenes from Japanese mythology. ? (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Preface --- Part One: Japan --- The Coming of the Black Ships --- The Mysteries of the East --- The Floating World --- The Technique of Woodblock Printing --- A Short History of the Woodblock Prints --- Part Two: Europe --- European Knowledge of Japan --- The Japanese Aesthetic --- Manet --- Whistler --- Degas --- Monet and the Impressionists --- Gauguin --- Van Gogh --- Seurat and Signac --- Toulouse-Lautrec --- The Nabis, Mary Cassatt and the Print Revival --- Fin de Siecle: England, Germany and Austria --- Conclusion --- Brief Chronology --- Select Glossary of Japanese Words --- Notes to the Text --- Appendix: Important Collections of Japanese Prints outside Japan --- Select Bibliography --- Index. ISBN 002627180X