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Samurai, stars of the stage and beautiful women : Kunisada und Kuniyoshi : masters of the color woodblock print
by edited by Gunda Luyken and Beat Wismer ; with contributions by Claudia Delank, Bernd Jesse, Gunda Luyken, Bianca Raitz, Stephan von der Schulenburg, Christian Voit
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 377573239X
- ISBN 13
- 9783775732390
- Seller
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About This Item
Contents: Amusement and morality -- Theater -- The golden age of the Utagawa school -- Literature -- Japan grotesque -- Everyday life -- The Samurai code of honor as exemplified in the forty-seven rōnin -- Heroes -- Japanese woodblock prints as the source of contemporary popular culture -- Beautiful women -- Utagawa Kuniyoshi as draftsman -- Drawings -- Inventory. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held in Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, September 10, 2011-January 15, 2012; and in Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen, June 23, 2012-September 9, 2012. First edition, first printing. Orange boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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- Bookseller
- Springhead Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016034
- Title
- Samurai, stars of the stage and beautiful women : Kunisada und Kuniyoshi : masters of the color woodblock print
- Author
- edited by Gunda Luyken and Beat Wismer ; with contributions by Claudia Delank, Bernd Jesse, Gunda Luyken, Bianca Raitz, Stephan von der Schulenburg, Christian Voit
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 377573239X
- ISBN 13
- 9783775732390
- Publisher
- Hatje Cantz Verlag
- Place of Publication
- Ostfildern
- Date Published
- 2012
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