The Actor's Image: Print Makers of the Katsukawa School

by Timothy T. Clark

The floating world--the closely related pleasure and entertainment districts of Tokyo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--embodied and idealized fashion, chic, and urbanity for its habituees, and inspired a profusion of woodblock prints depicting renowned courtesans and adored matinee idols. Considered ephemera in their time, these prints are treasured works of art today. In this volume of floating world prints (ukiyo-e), the authors present...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865590974
• ISBN13: 9780865590977
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago
• Length: 503 Pages