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2) Japanese art
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
"This book surveys the arts of Japan from the prehistoric period to the present, bringing together the results of the most recent research on the subject. Illustrated with examples from all the arts - painting, calligraphy, the decorative arts and architecture - and with a wide-ranging bibliography. Japanese Art addresses itself equally to those who come to the subject for the first time and to the student."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher
Yale University Press in association with Sun & Star 1996 and Dallas Museum of Art
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The history, culture, and aesthetics of the Momoyama period are explored by analyzing and reproducing masterpieces of artists in many media: paintings (including many superb screen paintings), sculpture, calligraphy, tea ceremony utensils, lacquerware, ceramics, metalwork, arms and armor, textiles, and Noh masks. A team of leading scholars and specialists in Japanese art contributes an introduction to each section with an essay that places the individual...
Author
Publisher
North Light Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Are you inspired by the little things, the bits others might overlook? A crack in the sidewalk? The trunk of a fallen tree? Shards of broken pottery? Do you want your artwork to speak to the abstract nature of color, and shape and texture, composition and mood? With Wabi-Sabi Art Workshop, you'll learn to use your appreciation for the simple things in life--the ordinary, the aged, the humble--as your inspiration for making expressive, intuitive...
10) Japan: rising
Publisher
Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Recounting the story of her life, Oei plunges us into the colorful world of nineteenth-century Edo, in which courtesans rub shoulders with poets, warriors consort with actors, and the arts flourish in an unprecedented moment of creative upheaval. Oei and Hokusai live among writers, novelists, tattoo artists, and prostitutes, evading the spies of the repressive shogunate as they work on Hokusai's countless paintings and prints. Wielding her brush,...
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Showcasing Japan's astonishingly varied culture of cute, this volume takes the reader on a dazzling and adorable visual journey through all things kawaii. Although some trace the phenomenon of kawaii as far back as Japan's Taisho era, it emerged most visibly in the 1970s when schoolgirls began writing in big, bubbly letters complete with tiny hearts and stars. From cute handwriting came manga, Hello Kitty, and Harajuku, and the kawaii aesthetic now...
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