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Japanese Colour-Prints and Their Designers
Frederick William Gookin
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Originally delivered as a lecture before the Japan Society of New York in 1911, Japanese Colour-Prints and Their Designers is a foundational Western study of ukiyo-e woodblock printing and the master artists who defined the form. Written by art historian and curator Frederick William Gookin, the work provides a clear, scholarly yet accessible overview of the development, techniques, and aesthetic principles behind Japanese color prints from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
Gookin traces the evolution of ukiyo-e from early black-outline prints through hand-colored works and into the full flowering of multicolor printing perfected by artists such as Harunobu, Kiyonaga, Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige. Along the way, he explains the technical processes of woodblock carving and printing, the role of publishers and printers, the social context of the “floating world,” and the reasons these works were long undervalued in Japan while gaining profound influence in Europe and America.
Illustrated with numerous examples of celebrated prints, this volume remains an essential primary source for collectors, art historians, students of Japanese art, and readers interested in the global history of printmaking. It captures an early twentieth-century moment when Western appreciation of Japanese aesthetics was rapidly reshaping modern art discourse.
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