This volume reproduces 139 Japanese woodblock colour prints by 43 famous masters of ukiyo-e, the popular art of the 17th to the 19th century. The originals are in the Riccar Art Museum in Tokyo, the world`s largest and most celebrated collection of such prints. On account of their rarity and value, 87 of them have been designated Japanese National Treasures or Major National Cultural Heritage Items. The introductory essay, "Ukiyo-e - Origins and History", by the Curator of the Riccar Art Museum, Mitsunobu Sato, familiarizes the reader with the history of this art form. This is followed by the chapter "Cherry - Wood - Blossom", in which Thomas Zacharias, Professor at the Munich Academy of Art examines the technique, content and style of...

ISBN: 978-3-8228-3509-8
Издательство: TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2010

In this book, I examine Finding Family Stories, a cross-cultural, cross-institutional collaborative art project between various museums in the Los Angeles area from 1995 to 2003. As ethnic-specific institutions, the Japanese American National Museum and the Korean American Museum collaborated during the first year of the project, exhibiting artworks by Korean Americans and Japanese Americans at both venues concurrently. Through this cultural exchange, Korean Americans and Japanese Americans, as well as other ethnic communities, could learn the similarities and differences between the two cultures within the context of the multicultural society of Los Angeles. This book emphasizes the need for more multicultural and cross-cultural...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-3774-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Guimet Museum (French: Musee national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet or Musee Guimet) is a museum of Asian art located at 6, place d'Iena in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. It has one of the largest collections of Asian art outside Asia. The museum which was first located at Lyon in 1879 and was handed over to the state and transferred to Paris in 1885, was founded by Emile Etienne Guimet, an industrialist. Devoted to travel, Guimet was in 1876 commissioned by the minister of public instruction to study the religions of the Far East, and the museum contains many of the fruits of this expedition,...

ISBN: 978-6-1329-0002-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Hapa Project is a multiracial identity art project created by American artist Kip Fulbeck. The project embodies a range of mediums, including a published book, traveling photographic exhibition, satellite community presentations, and online communities. The Hapa Project publicly premiered in 2006 at the Japanese American National Museum with a 5-month solo exhibition entitled "kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa." The work has also exhibited at Space180 Gallery (San Francisco), Mandeville Gallery (New York), The Field Museum, University of North Carolina, Oakland University, Northern Arizona University, Santa Clara University, and Woodward Academy, among others. Sixteen images from the...

ISBN: 978-6-1341-5110-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Manggha (full name: manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, until 2007: manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology) is a branch of the National Museum in Krakow. In 1920, Feliks Jasie?ski—critic, writer and collector of art, whose penname was "Manngha"—donated his collection of artworks connected with Japan to the National Museum in Krakow. After his death, the collection was not exhibited, one reason being the lack of space to arrange the 6500 items. The lone exception was an exhibition in Cloth Hall of Krakow in 1944, organised by the Germans, who occupied Poland at the time. A young Andrzej Wajda saw the exhibition and became fascinated by Japanese art. Данное...

ISBN: 978-6-1325-9792-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tokyo Army College (also known as the Tokyo Army Educational Center) was established by the Eighth U.S. Army during its occupation of Japan and became a center of educational and cultural activities for members of the occupational forces and Japanese citizens alike. From 1947 to 1948, the Tokyo Army College was led by Captain Charles T. McDowell, whose staff included Chisaburo Yamada, the well known Japanese art expert, author, and future director of the National Museum of Western Art, and Faubion Bowers, who also served as General Douglas MacArthur's personal interpreter and aide-de-camp during the occupation and later became a respected authority on oriental art and culture. Bowers is...

ISBN: 978-6-1319-8859-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011