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Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories: By Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and Other Artists of the Floating World Paperback - 2016

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Author: Calza, Gian Carlo
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A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated study of traditional Japanese erotic art.

Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories examines the artistic developments of Japanese erotic art from the ukiyo-e period, dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. Known by the delicate euphemism of Shunga or 'spring images', these pictures were hugely popular and admired, and are today highly collectable works of art.

This book illustrates major Shunga works from important ukiyo-e masters such as Utamaro, Hokusai, Harunobu, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi and many others. World-renowned scholar Gian Carlo Calza defines these fascinating erotic works in their social, historical and artistic context, providing a broad overview of a subject that is extremely nuanced and intriguing. Beautifully illustrated with over 300 images, including woodblock prints, scrolls and paintings, this book is a perfect introduction to ukiyo-e erotic art.

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Title Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories: By Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and Other Artists of the Floating World
Author Gian Carlo Calza
Binding Paperback
Edition Paperback
Pages 464
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Phaidon Press
Publication date 2016
ISBN 9780714871578 / 0714871575
Weight 3.69 lbs (1.67 kg)
Dimensions 10.75 x 8 x 1.63 in (27.31 x 20.32 x 4.14 cm)
Category Art & Art Instruction

About the author

Gian Carlo Calza is a leading authority in Japanese art and aesthetics, author of many books and curator of many exhibitions in the field. He was a professor of Asian Art History at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and director of the International Hokusai Research Centre in Milan. He has promoted the Venice Conferences on Japanese Art and his books and catalogues on Japan have been published in various languages. Among the most important of them are: L'incanto sottile del dramma no (1975, 1983), Japanische Plakate Heute (1979), Hokusai Paintings (1994), Tanaka Ikko (Phaidon, 1997), Hokusai (Phaidon, 2003), Ukiyo-e (Phaidon, 2006), Hiroshige (2009); Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories (Phaidon, 2010), Akbar (2012).

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