Hiroshige One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Hardcover Book (red / hardcover)

Hiroshige One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Hardcover Book (red / hardcover)
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Hiroshige One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Hardcover Book (red / hardcover)

Cheap Cerbe Jordan Outlet x Pokemon Hiroshige's views of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), one of the masterpieces of the ukiyo-e woodblock tradition scenes often represented the Japonisme that inspired Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Art Nouveau artists, from Cheap Cerbe Jordan Outlet x Pokemon to James McNeill Whistler.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was Cheap Cerbe Jordan Outlet x One Piece ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning “pictures of the floating world,” ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the Western world’s visual idea of Japan. In many ways images of hedonism, ukiyo-e beautiful women, actors and wrestlers, city life, and spectacular landscapes bright lights and attractions of Edo (modern-day Tokyo): beautiful women, actors and wrestlers, city life, and spectacular landscapes.

Though he captured a variety of subjects, Hiroshige was most famous for landscapes, with a final masterpiece series known as “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” (1856–1858), scenes often represented the bustling shopping streets to splendid cherry orchards.

This reprint is made from one of the finest complete original sets of woodblock prints belonging to the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo. It pairs each of the 120 illustrations with a description, allowing readers to immerse themselves in these beautiful, vibrant vistas that became paradigms of Japonisme and inspired Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Art Nouveau Recently added items.

The authors

Before taking her doctorate in Far Eastern art history at the University of Heidelberg, Melanie Trede worked at the Gakushuin University in Tokyo. She was assistant professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University from 1999 to 2004, since which time she has been Professor of Far Eastern art history at the University of Heidelberg.

Lorenz Bichler studied Sinology, Japanese studies, and Modern History in Zurich and Beijing. After scholarships at the Waseda and Tokai universities in Japan, he was appointed assistant professor of politics at New York University in 1999. He has held non-established teaching posts at various universities, and given online instruction at the New School of Social Research. He has been a freelance sinologist working in Heidelberg since 2004.

Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Melanie Trede, Lorenz Bichler
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