[PDF.33zh] Japanese Kite Prints: Selections from the Skinner Collection

Japanese Kite Prints: Selections from the Skinner Collection

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 | #2797790 in Books |  2004-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  12.25 x10.25 x.75l,3.97 | File type: PDF | 200 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A nice book but not exactly what the title suggests.|By T. Good|This is a beautiful book but wasn't exactly what I had thought it was going to be. I was expecting more of a collection of the actual designs that have appeared on kites (only a few are included) but it was mostly a collection of woodblock prints that have an image of a kite somewhere in the image. In some cases, t|From Publishers Weekly|In order to enter the Drachen Foundation's Skinner Collection, a Japanese woodblock print must contain a depiction of a kite, whether airborne or earthbound. These 96 selections from the Seattle-based collection by Stevenson, former acting

Color woodblock prints vibrantly convey the popular urban culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Edo, now called Tokyo. In a book that brings together two of Edo's most colorful traditions, prints and kites, John Stevenson celebrates the charm and significance of the mass-produced but often elegant broadsheets known as ukiyo-e. The term means "pictures of the floating world," a pun on a Buddhist concept of the fleeting world of desires that is, coincidental...

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