Kuniyoshi /
"Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861) was one of the last great masters of the ukiyoe style and is considered the most versatile Japanese print artist of the nineteenth century... This dazzling volume by Matthi Forrer, one of the leading experts on ukiyoe, traces Kuniyoshi's entire career, lookin...
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Munich :
Prestel,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Utagawa Kuniyoshi: his early career. Kuniyoshi in contemporary sources ; The background to the print culture in the city of Edo ; A critical review of the contemporary sources ; Illustrating popular novels ; Other artists who influenced Kuniyoshi
- Kuniyoshi's actor prints. Kuniyoshi's early career actor prints ; The theatrical calendar ; Kuniyoshi's early actor prints ; Success in the 1830s and the shinie genre ; Kuniyoshi's designs for surimono prints of actors ; Kuniyoshi's actor portraits in the format of series of prints ; Kuniyoshi and the Tenpō Reforms ; Actor prints in the years after the Tenpō Reforms ; A return to traditional actor prints
- Kuniyoshi's warrior prints. The Suikoden series of Chinese warriors ; Other prints of warriors, also in series ; Coming to grips with the Tenpō Reforms ; The forty-seven loyal retainers ; Other series of warriers in later years ; The triptych compositions
- Kuniyoshi's landscape prints and Western influence. The city of Edo ; Kuniyoshi's landscape prints and views of Edo ; Other landscape prints ; Landscape settings for faraway regions ; Japanese figures modelled after Johan Nieuhof
- Kuniyoshi's artistic development. Early careers and first successes ; Illustrations of popular novels ; Erotic works ; Paintings by Kuniyoshi ; Other prints in the 1830s ; Trying to survive under the Tenpō Reforms ; Paintings from the 1840s and a return to landscapes ; Fashionable women in triptych compositions and serial productions ; Fan prints ; Prints on the game of ken ; Portraits of the forty-seven ronīn ; Other topics from history ; Paintings of the 1850s and Kuniyoshi's final years
- Kuniyoshi's role and legacy.