Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty(English, Hardcover, Davis Julie Nelson)

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Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty(English, Hardcover, Davis Julie Nelson) is written by Davis Julie Nelson and published by Reaktion Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1861893590 (ISBN 10) and 9781861893598 (ISBN 13).

Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) was one of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e, 'pictures of the floating world', in late eighteenth-century Japan, and was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women. In this book, Julie Nelson Davis reinterprets Utamaro in the context of his times, drawing on a wide range of period sources, and making a close study of selected print sets. Reconstructing the place of the ukiyo-e artist within the commercial print market, she demonstrates how Utamaro's images participated in a larger spectacle of beauty in the city of Edo (present-day Tokyo).This book is significant contribution to the field, and will be a key work for readers interested in Japanese arts and cultures.