Japanese Woodblock Prints
$29.74
- Hardcover
96 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2024
Summary
From Édouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of Japanese art. In all its sensuality, freedom, and effervescence, the woodblock print is single-handedly credited with the wave of Japonisme that first enthralled France and, later, all of Europe—but often remains misunderstood as an “exotic” …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783836585545 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3836585545 |
| Author: | Andreas Marks |
| Publisher: | Taschen GmbH |
| Imprint: | Taschen GmbH |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 617g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 210mm x 260mm |
| Series: | Basic Art |
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Critics Review
I envy the Japanese for the enormous clarity that pervades their work… they draw a figure with a few well-chosen lines as if it were as effortless as buttoning up one’s waistcoat. * Vincent van Gogh *
Andreas Marks
Andreas Marks studied East Asian art history at the University of Bonn and obtained his PhD in Japanology from Leiden University with a thesis on 19th-century actor prints. From 2008 to 2013 he was director and chief curator of the Clark Center for Japanese Art in Hanford, California, and since 2013 has been the Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art and director of the Clark Center for Japanese Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. In 2024, he was awarded the commendation of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his contributions to the promotion of Japanese culture.
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