Woodblock Japan
20th Century Books
Paper
20th Century Modern Prints
Metal
1860s Edo Figurative Prints
Paper, Ink
Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Early 19th Century Figurative Prints
Woodcut
Antique 1810s Japanese Prints
Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Prints
Woodcut
Mid-19th Century Portrait Prints
Woodcut
Antique 19th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Late 19th Century Portrait Prints
Woodcut
Antique 1880s Japanese Prints
Paper
Early 20th Century Showa Prints
Paper
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Antique 19th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Lithograph
Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Antique 19th Century Meiji Prints
Paper
Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
20th Century Prints
Paper
19th Century Figurative Prints
Woodcut
Antique 19th Century Japanese Prints
Glass, Wood, Paint
Antique 19th Century Prints
Paper
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Prints and Multiples
Ink
Early 20th Century Prints
Paper
1820s Realist Figurative Prints
Printer s Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
1850s Edo Figurative Prints
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
19th Century Portrait Prints
Woodcut
Antique 19th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Antique 19th Century Chinese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Bronze
1820s Edo Figurative Prints
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
1860s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
1980s Modern Landscape Prints
Gold Leaf
19th Century Portrait Prints
Woodcut
Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Mid-20th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Prints
Paper
20th Century Prints
Paper
1890s Art Deco Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Woodcut
1940s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1920s Figurative Prints
Paper, Fiberboard, Woodcut
1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Paper
1920s Edo Figurative Prints
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
Antique 19th Century Chinese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Bronze
Mid-19th Century Figurative Prints
Woodcut
1930s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Antique 19th Century Prints
Paper
Mid-19th Century Portrait Prints
Woodcut
Early 20th Century Edo Figurative Prints
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
1850s Realist Figurative Prints
Printer s Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
1860s Edo Figurative Prints
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
Late 19th Century Figurative Prints
1890s French School Figurative Prints
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
1850s Edo Figurative Prints
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
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Bring Authentic Japanese Woodblock Prints into Your Home
For concision, power and delight, it’s hard to beat authentic Japanese woodblock prints, the products of an artistic tradition that is aging very well indeed.
The genre, unique to Japan, grew out of 17th-century developments in printing and book publishing. The form became known as “picture of the floating world,” an evocative name that captures the dreaminess of many of the scenes (which were often erotic). In an overview of the years from 1680 to 1938 in Taschen’s Japanese Woodblock Prints, author Andreas Marks presents the reader with a brief history of the development of woodblocks, describing for example how extra colors were added, and then devotes most of the following chapters to significant individual artists over the centuries. Four of the most common subjects are delineated: beauties, actors, landscapes and bird-and-flower compositions. Famous for book illustrations as well as paintings, Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai captured the grand power of nature by depicting Mount Fuji, Japan’s tallest peak, as a tiny triangle seemingly being swallowed by an enormous wave in his The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Some of the great creators of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), are still well known, their works frequently shown in museums today. European artists like Van Gogh and Manet were indelibly influenced by them, for reasons that are plain.
But Marks’s stated aim is to spread his attention around and not “single out the handful of ‘stars’ commonly found in books and exhibitions.” Some of the later talents covered in his compendium — like the relatively unfamiliar Yamamura Koka (also known as Toyonari), whose beguiling 1920s works convey suggestions of the Jazz Age — the heady, optimistic era between the end of World War I and the crash of 1929 — may be the biggest revelations.
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