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Women and men - strong, proud, tragic or beautiful - in the japanese print genre known as ukiyo-e are this book's subject. Moving beyond the aesthetics of works created in the heyday of japanese printmaking (1765-1865), it explores the often subtle iconography employed by the most famous artists of their time. This book allows one to enjoy the complicated layers of meaning in the prints and understand the intricate references to popular and classical culture. First are the "beauties" of their time, including the ladies form the city's many teahouses and from the Yoshiwara brothel district, Edo's celebrated and highly organised "pleasure quarter". These include subdued scenes of women seated on verandas by Suzuki Harunobu, as well as Kitagawa Utamaro's detailed portraits of high-ranking sex workers. Frail "streetwalkers", forced by circumstance into the lowest ranks of prostitution, are transformed into elegant ladies. Heroes and villains, male and female, in the work of artists such as Utagawa Kuniyoshi and Yashima Gakutei crowd the printed sheet, illustrating Japan's rich mythological and pseudo-historical past. The popular entertainments of kabuki and sumo are also explored. Famous actors - some depicted in spectacular "big head" (ōkubi-e) portraits, playing their most famous roles as heroic strongmen or delicate geisha - are drawn by the confident hands of Tōshūsai Sharaku, Utagawa Kunimasa, Utagawa Toyokuni and his successor Utagawa Kunisada. These colourful masterpieces demonstrate the economy of line and powerful expression of the woodblock medium. Each print is explored in the finest detail in order to explain the many riddles of ukiyo-e - that intriguing and captivating mode of visual expression that had such a profound influence on western art.

Exhibitions --- Color prints, Japanese --- Ukiyoe --- Estampe en couleurs --- Ukiyo-e.

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Graphic arts --- Broadsides --- Color prints --- Popular culture --- Wood-engraving, French --- Themes, motives. --- Folklore --- popular prints --- Epinal --- Illustrations --- Art populaire --- Imagerie

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prentkunst --- Graphic arts --- history [discipline] --- woodcuts [prints] --- geschiedenis --- houtsneden --- Japan --- Ukiyoe --- prints [visual works] --- Color prints, Japanese --- Ukiyoe - Japan

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In Printing Colour 1400–1700 , Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage offer the first handbook of early modern colour printmaking before 1700 (when most such histories begin), creating a new, interdisciplinary paradigm for the history of graphic art. It unveils a corpus of thousands of individual colour prints from across early modern Europe, proposing art historical, bibliographical, technical and scientific contexts for understanding them and their markets. The twenty-three contributions represent the state of research in this still-emerging field. From the first known attempts in the West until the invention of the approach we still use today (blue-red-yellow-black/‘key’, now CMYK), it demonstrates that colour prints were not rare outliers, but essential components of many early modern book, print and visual cultures.

Book history --- color prints [prints] --- Graphics industry --- color printing --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Color prints --- Art and society --- Estampe en couleurs --- Art et société --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- 76.017.4 --- 76 "14/16" --- 655.3.024 --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Kleur --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--15e-17e eeuw. Periode 1400-1699 --- Colour printing --- 76.017.4 Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Kleur --- Color prints, European --- Art et société --- Color prints, European. --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Social aspects

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Color prints, Japanese --- 761 <520> --- 76 <520> "19" --- -Japanese color prints --- 76 <520> "19" Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Japan--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Japan--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 761 <520> Hoogdruktechnieken in de grafische kunst--Japan --- Hoogdruktechnieken in de grafische kunst--Japan