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Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan, 2006, HC, NF, w/DJ.
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295986247
ISBN-13
9780295986241
eBay Product ID (ePID)
53571892
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ehon : the Artist and the Book in Japan
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Asian / General, Book, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Design, Art, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
64.3 Oz
Item Length
12.6 in
Item Width
9.1 in
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Trade
LCCN
2006-014593
Reviews
". . . Roger Keys eloquently implores his readers to better appreciate the aesthetics of the books themselves, as well as the artistic sensibility of their makers. THe remarkable collection about which he writes, containing three hundred manuscripts and fifteen hundred printed books, has lonng been know about by scholars, but this publication marks its first borad introduction to the general public, through a selection of seventy works."-- IIAS Newsletter #45 Autumn 2007
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
741.6/40952074747/1
Table Of Content
Foreword / Paul LeClerc, President Ehon : An IntroductionThe Distinctive Components of Japanese BooksNote to the ReaderJapanese Artists' Books, 770-2005Bibliographic Descriptions and ReferencesInventory of Japanese Printed Books in the Spencer CollectionBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex
Synopsis
Ehon - or "picture books"- are part of an incomparable 1,200-year-old Japanese tradition. Created by artists and craftsmen, most ehon also feature essays, poems, or other texts written in beautiful, distinctive calligraphy. They are by nature collaborations: visual artists, calligraphers, writers, and designers join forces with papermakers, binders, block cutters, and printers. The books they create are strikingly beautiful, highly charged microcosms of deep feeling, sharp intensity, and extraordinary intelligence. In the elegant, richly illustrated Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan , renowned scholar Roger S. Keyes traces the history and evolution of these remarkable books through seventy key works, including many great rarities and unique masterpieces, from the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, one of the foremost collections of Japanese illustrated books in the West. The earliest ehon were made as religious offerings or talismans, but their great flowering began in the early modern period (1600-1868) and has continued, with new media and new styles and subjects, to the present. Shiohi no tsuto (Gifts of the Ebb Tide, 1789; often called The Shell Book) by Kitagawa Utamaro, one of the supreme achievements of the ehon tradition, is reproduced in full. Michimori (ca. 1604), a luxuriously produced libretto for a No play is also featured, as are Saito- Shu-ho's cheerful Kishi empu (Mr. Ginger's Book of Love, 1803), Kamisaka Sekka's brilliant Momoyogusa (Flowers of a Hundred Worlds, 1910), and many more. Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan ends with ehon by some of the most innovative practitioners of the twentieth century. Among these are Chizu (The Map, 1965), Kawada Kikuji's profound photographic requiem for Hiroshima; Yoko Tawada's and Stephan Kohler's affecting Ein Gedicht fur ein Buch (A Poem for a Book, 1996); and Vija Celmins's and Eliot Weinberger's Hoshi (The Stars, 2005). The magnificent ehon tradition originated in Japan and developed there under very specific conditions, but it has long since burst its bounds, like any living tradition. Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan suggests that when artists meet readers in these contrived, protected, focused, sacred book "worlds," the possibilities for pleasure, insight, and inspiration are limitless. Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan was praised as "illuminating" in The New York Times ' review of the New York Public Library's exhibit. http: //travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/21/arts/design/21ehon.html, Ehon - or "picture books"- are part of an incomparable 1,200-year-old Japanese tradition. Created by artists and craftsmen, most ehon also feature essays, poems, or other texts written in beautiful, distinctive calligraphy. They are by nature collaborations: visual artists, calligraphers, writers, and designers join forces with papermakers, binders, block cutters, and printers. The books they create are strikingly beautiful, highly charged microcosms of deep feeling, sharp intensity, and extraordinary intelligence. In the elegant, richly illustrated Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan, renowned scholar Roger S. Keyes traces the history and evolution of these remarkable books through seventy key works, including many great rarities and unique masterpieces., Ehon - or "picture books"- are part of an incomparable 1,200-year-old Japanese tradition. Created by artists and craftsmen, most ehon also feature essays, poems, or other texts written in beautiful, distinctive calligraphy. They are by nature collaborations: visual artists, calligraphers, writers, and designers join forces with papermakers, binders, block cutters, and printers. The books they create are strikingly beautiful, highly charged microcosms of deep feeling, sharp intensity, and extraordinary intelligence. In the elegant, richly illustrated Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan , renowned scholar Roger S. Keyes traces the history and evolution of these remarkable books through seventy key works, including many great rarities and unique masterpieces, from the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, one of the foremost collections of Japanese illustrated books in the West. The earliest ehon were made as religious offerings or talismans, but their great flowering began in the early modern period (1600-1868) and has continued, with new media and new styles and subjects, to the present. Shiohi no tsuto (Gifts of the Ebb Tide, 1789; often called The Shell Book) by Kitagawa Utamaro, one of the supreme achievements of the ehon tradition, is reproduced in full. Michimori (ca. 1604), a luxuriously produced libretto for a No play is also featured, as are Saito- Shu-ho's cheerful Kishi empu (Mr. Ginger's Book of Love, 1803), Kamisaka Sekka's brilliant Momoyogusa (Flowers of a Hundred Worlds, 1910), and many more. Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan ends with ehon by some of the most innovative practitioners of the twentieth century. Among these are Chizu (The Map, 1965), Kawada Kikuji's profound photographic requiem for Hiroshima; Yoko Tawada's and Stephan Kohler's affecting Ein Gedicht für ein Buch (A Poem for a Book, 1996); and Vija Celmins's and Eliot Weinberger's Hoshi (The Stars, 2005). The magnificent ehon tradition originated in Japan and developed there under very specific conditions, but it has long since burst its bounds, like any living tradition. Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan suggests that when artists meet readers in these contrived, protected, focused, sacred book "worlds," the possibilities for pleasure, insight, and inspiration are limitless. Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan was praised as "illuminating" in The New York Times ' review of the New York Public Library's exhibit. http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/21/arts/design/21ehon.html
LC Classification Number
NC961.N49N495 2006
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- o***i (4618)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseAnother pleasant transaction with this outstanding seller. Super fast shipping. Careful wrapping and packaging in a box. Item arrived exactly as shown and described. Great value. Truly recommended.F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Illus. Fred Meyer, 1980, SIGNED, NF HC (#236193551166)
- j***o (20)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseShipping cost and timeline was very reasonable. Item condition as described, and packaged with care. Great value and will be sure to do business again.
- y***o (2047)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThis very knowledgeable seller was an absolute delight to trade with, my questions were fully answered and the order was processed and shipped internationally in very good time. Communication was excellent and friendy, and the deal agreed was highly competitive. The eBay experience at its very best!The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, Vol. 6, Good HC (#235948412921)