Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print, Including an Illustrated Dictionary of Ukiyo-E

Lane, Richard

ISBN 10: 0399121935 / ISBN 13: 9780399121937

Published by Putnam, New York, 1978

About this Item

Wide 4to, 364 pp., 200 color and b/w plates, 735 figs. Jacket has two small tears at head of spine, otherwise Fine. In card slipcase.

Seller Inventory # 17965

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print, Including an Illustrated Dictionary of Ukiyo-E
• Publisher: Putnam, New York
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399121935
• ISBN 13: 9780399121937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

First edition. An excellent study of this popular area of Japanese Art. This book chronicles the development of Ukiyo-e, examines the lives and techniques of its masters, and describes the illustrated books, erotic albums and paintings that belong to this school of art. Includes sections on The Rise of Ukiyo-e, The Primitives and the First Century of Ukiyo-e, and The Golden Age of the Color Print. Also contains an illustrated dictionary encompassing biographical details of artists and subjects, glossary of terms, etc. Well illustrated, several in color. 364 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. thick 4to..