The Japanese Picture Book: A Selection from the Ravicz Collection - Hardcover

Hillier, Jack Ronald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810935031 ISBN 13: 9780810935037

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1991

Synopsis

Examines 124 books from the Ravicz Collection, and discusses not only their visual significance, but also the importance of the historical data included in the volumes

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Anthropologist Robert Ravicz has collected more than 800 Japanese woodblock-printed picture books, an art form little known in the West. Astonishingly varied in subject matter, these exquisite picture books virtually constitute an ethnographic record of Japanese life and culture, portraying childbirth, body language, dress, festivals, eroticism, eating, humor, travel, work, play and customs. Yet the primary appeal of this jewel of a book will be to the art lover. The hushed mystery of Ryotai Kanyosai's Three Hares in the Snow (1762), the wonderfully concise shorthand of Keisai Masayoshi's Elephants (1797), the uncanny fusion of Western and Japanese styles in Akamatsu Rinsaku's Kobe Wharf (1916) and the universal tragedy implicit in Takehisa Yumeji's abject Sorrowing Woman (1920) call to mind the finest Japanese painting. Hillier ( The Art of the Japanese Book ) explicates the 124 illustrations with a deft touch.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0810935031
• ISBN 13: 9780810935037
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136