The Floating World is the Katrina story that needed to be told—one with a piercing, unforgettable loveliness and a vivid, intimate understanding of this particular place and its tangled past.
The book introduces students, collectors, and enthusiasts to ukiyo-e as a genre under construction in its own time while contributing to our understanding of early modern visual production.
Ukiyo-e - 'pictures of the floating world' - produced by Japanese artists, publishers and craftsmen of the Edo period (1603-1868) constitute one of the most remarkable and spectacular achievements in...
Ukiyo-e are paintings and prints of 'the floating world' of Edo (Tokyo), which had transformed itself in just a century from a swampy village to a metropolis of about a...
“The Floating World is a dark story that has come at just the right time for what it shows to us about our susceptibility to natural disasters and other traumas . . . An impressive first literary step by Babst, herself a New Orleans ...
The floating world of Geisha, Kabuki actors, cherry blossoms and the majestic Mt. Fuji—with this coloring book for adults you are there, recreating woodblock prints of people, landscapes, flora and fauna.
The patient world behind the window waited for the day to invent another new reality upon its tendrilled streets. ... The early flight will draw her into its jet propelled jaws, before the day has broken the dawn. And like a bullet, ...
Poems from the Floating World: 1959-1963
Featuring more than 150 works from the celebrated Weston Collection, the most comprehensive of its kind in private hands and published here for the first time in English, this lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched volume ...
This essential guide is the first history of illustration written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators.