The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand

^ Read * The Artists Touch, The Craftsmans Hand by Portland Art Museum ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Artists Touch, The Craftsmans Hand Many are extremely rare and almost all appear here in an English-language publication for the first time. The Artists Touch, the Craftsmans Hand presents a selection of the most historically important and visually compelling Japanese prints from a collection of more than 2,500 works spanning the late 17th century to the present day. Noteworthy areas of interest include early actor prints, dating back to the first decade of the 18th century; works by Suzuki Harunobu, the master associate

Author	:	Portland Art Museum
Rating	:	4.11 (628 Votes)
Asin	:	1883124328
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	348 Pages
Publish Date	:	2015-12-03
Language	:	English

DESCRIPTION:

. Kominz. Other contributors are John T. Maribeth Graybill is the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon. Carpenter, Donald Jenkins, Lynn Katsumoto, and Laurence R

A beautiful and high-quality book! I bought this as a gift for my partner, who is a big fan of Japanese prints, and he loves it. It's a selection of beautiful and unusual prints including many he hadn't seen before, and the reproductions are really high quality, something I'm always anxious about when . Fine Catalogue swimmer For the lover of Japanese Prints, this is an outstanding catalogue from Portland Oregon's Museum, written by the noted Marybeth Graybill. Highly recommended.. This catalog was an integral part of my graduate course This catalog was an integral part of my graduate course in museum studies and art history. It is well written and a very valuable source.

Highly recommended."Choice, September 2012 . Illustrations are excellent. "Three centuries of prints in 300 pages makes for an exquisite compilation."Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness, November 2012"This catalog offers a significant amount of new material. The catalog proper has full curatorial data plus intriguing comments on individual prints from the late 17th century to the early 21st

Many are extremely rare and almost all appear here in an English-language publication for the first time. The Artist's Touch, the Craftsman's Hand presents a selection of the most historically important and visually compelling Japanese prints from a collection of more than 2,500 works spanning the late 17th century to the present day. Noteworthy areas of interest include early actor prints, dating back to the first decade of the 18th century; works by Suzuki Harunobu, the master associated with the origins of full-color printing in 1765; the deluxe, privately printed surimono of the early 19th century; painterly landscapes of the early 20th century, including a series that documents the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923; and contemporary prints, ranging from Op Art and Abstract Expressionism to lyrical evocations of an imagined past.Essays include an overview of the illustrated works and articles on Harunobu, prints of kabuki actors and their fans, and the cultural meanings in still-life surimono.