Visions of Japan: Kawase Haui's Masterpieces
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (758 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9074822800 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 149 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Gary Comoglio said Kawase Hasui: an honored Japanese National Living Treasure. When I think about a master of quality in Japanese printmaking a few artists immediately come to mind: Hiroshi Yoshida, Paul Jacoulet, and Kawase Hasui. This little paperback book is jam packed full of color woodblock prints,page after page of an artists masterful works. If you are not fond of landscapes this is not for you, but if you enjoy Japanese printmaking, this book is an absolute mus. berusama1 said Kawase Hasui prints. I bought this book from Amazon.con after seeing posters of his prints (The Pagoda in Moonlight and the Benton Shrine over a lillies pond).I also saw his framed woodblock prints in Japantown in San Francisco. Very rich colors. Stunning, comparing to his posters and calendars. Only a few hundred $$$. Buy me one of those for Xmas, please.Check them out when you are in San Francisco.. "A Visionary View of Climate and Culture" according to Crazy Fox. As art books go, this one gets it just about perfect. 100 of Kawase Hasui's prints, arranged in chronological order and finely reproduced with great care in full color and as large as the book's format will allow (the format being large enough to show off the prints to advantage without being unwieldy to hold and peruse). The text at the beginning by Kendall Brown is informative and helpful
Kendall H. Fully illustrated, this publication includes annotated descriptions for each work, as well as two essays on Hasuis life and work by Dr. Following on the success of the catalogue raisonné Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints published by Hotei Publishing in 2003, Visions of Japan: Kawase Hasuis Masterpieces brings together in a single volume one hundred of the artists most celebrated prints. Brown.
Instructive too are two introductory essays by Kendall H. With annotations which are comments by Hasui on the particular print or informative remarks by Narazaki Munishige, editor of a book on the artist's prints, the captions are instructive. Brown. The first is on the Japanese cultural sources of Hasui's prints; the second focuses on Hasui's life and art. "One hundred woodblock prints of the 20th-century Japanese artist Hasui are cataloged in bright colors on large pages roughly 9" x 11." Captions for the hundred are grouped following the prints. The succinct text with the appealing pictures of numerous prints offers an ideal int
Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of Art at California State University, Long Beach, California, where he teaches the art of India, China and Japan. Kendall H. Following his research into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japanese painting and publications, his interests turned to the twentieth c