9781883124328 : the-artists-touch-the-craftsmans-hand-graybill

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348 Pages

$45.00 USD

Format	Hardback
Published	November 9, 2011
ISBN-13	9781883124328
Language	English
Pages	348
Illustrations	390 color illus.
Height	12.00 Inches (US)
Width	10.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	5.65 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$45.00 USD, £36.00 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand

Name: The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand
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ISBN: 9781883124328

Edited by Maribeth Graybill

Portland Art Museum

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. Many are extremely rare and almost all appear here in an English-language publication for the first time. 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.

About the Author

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

Reviews

"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. . . . Illustrations are excellent. Highly recommended."—Choice, September 2012

Publisher	Portland Art Museum
BISAC Subject Headings	ART / Asian / General (134 Titles) ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Art (3 Titles) HISTORY / Asia / Japan (29 Titles)
BIC Subject Headings	Oriental art (124 Titles)

Format	Hardback
Published	November 9, 2011
ISBN-13	9781883124328
Language	English
Pages	348
Illustrations	390 color illus.
Height	12.00 Inches (US)
Width	10.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	5.65 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$45.00 USD, £36.00 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference