Yoshitoshi Tsukioka Art Book Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints 1977 Ikko Tanaka

by Art, Tanaka, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

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Yoshitoshi Tsukioka: 1977 Retrospective - Rare Ikko Tanaka Design Ukiyo-e Art Book Description About this Item A magnificent, museum-grade visual literature monument and an elite acquisition for Asian art historians, printmaking curators, Japanese tattoo archivists, and prestigious international collectors of definitive late Edo and Meiji ukiyo-e masterworks. This is the highly coveted, exceptionally scarce out-of-print official retrospective monograph "The Complete Yoshitoshi: The Last Ukiyo-e Master, The First Gekiga Artist" (月岡芳年の全貌展 : 最後の浮世絵師 最初の劇画家), curated by Shinichi Segi and published in Japan in 1977 by The Seibu Museum of Art. Crucially, the sophisticated cover and typography design of this landmark volume were executed by legendary Japanese graphic design master Ikko Tanaka (田中一光), making this catalog an extraordinary crossover between blue-chip ukiyo-e print history and master Japanese graphic design. Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1839–1892), also known as Taiso Yoshitoshi, stands universally as the undisputed genius who closed the historic chapter of traditional woodblock printmaking while laying the psychological foundations for modern manga and gekiga. A prized student of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi chronicled the violent transformations of the Meiji Restoration through intense psychological realism, iconic bloody prints (muzan-e), heroic samurai epics, eerie ghost/yokai compositions, and his contemplative crowning masterpiece One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki H

• Publisher: The Yomiuri Shimbun / Japan Association of Art Museums
• Year: 1977
• Condition: Very Good

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