In a green cloth hardcover with gilt titles to spine and front. With an unclipped colour pictorial dust jacket with black and red titles to spine and front. 136 pp. extensively illustrated in colour and black and white. The book is in near fine condition with just very minor sunning to the extremities of the cover. The binding is tight and the pages clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is also near fine. It is free of shelf-wear but the spine is lightly sunned.

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Title: The Japanese Picture Book: A Selection from the Ravicz Collection
Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0810935031
ISBN 13: 9780810935037
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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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

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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.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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