Utagawa Kuniyoshi Woodblock Prints Art Book Exhibition Catalog Ukiyo-e

by Kuniyoshi Utagawa, Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi: 150th Anniversary Exhibition Catalog - Rare Ukiyo-e Art Book Description About this Item A magnificent, museum-grade visual monument and an elite acquisition for Asian art historians, printmaking curators, international tattoo illustrators, and prestigious global collectors of authentic nineteenth-century Japanese Ukiyo-e history. This is the highly coveted, exceptionally scarce out-of-print official monograph "Utagawa Kuniyoshi: 150th Anniversary Memorial Exhibition Catalog" (没後150年 破天荒の浮世絵師 歌川国芳), meticulously edited by the world-famous Ota Memorial Museum of Art and published by NHK Promotions in 2011. Utagawa Kuniyoshi stands universally as an undisputed dynamic genius of late Edo-period woodblock printmaking. Internationally celebrated as the "Wild Painter of Ukiyo-e," Kuniyoshi revolutionized Japanese visual imagery through his legendary warrior prints (Musha-e), colossal skeleton monsters (Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Specter), playful anthropomorphic cats, comic triptychs, and dynamic aquatic battles. This colossal retrospective volume indexes his entire masterwork legacy across all major thematic categories. The physical presentation of this volume radiates absolute artistic energy. The front cover showcases a high-contrast visual plate depicting Miyamoto Musashi battling a giant monster carp, dramatically overlaid with striking yellow calligraphy typography. Inside, the oversized pages are printed with specialized ultra-high-density inks o

• Publisher: NHK Promotions
• Year: 2011
• Condition: Very Good

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