publishers of japanese woodblock prints
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Publishers of JapaneseWoodblock Prints:A Compendium
Andreas Marks
December 2010
ISBN 978 90 04 18531 9
Hardback (576 pp.)
List price EUR 139.- / US$ 195.-
Japanese woodblock prints, exemplied by such
iconographic images as Hokusais Great Wave,
Hiroshiges Heavy Rain on Ohashi bridge, or
Utamaros enticing beauties, constitute one of
the most important and inuential art forms in
art history.
Today, the names of these artists themselves
are celebrated throughout the world, and
yet very litt le is known about the publishers
of these artworks, despite the fact that they
played a crucial role in the production, visual
appearance and actual distribution of the workswithin the highly commercial world of Japanese
printmaking. It was the publisher who gauged
the markets, commissioned the artists and took
on the risks of production. Once a design was
completed by an artist, it was the publisher who
coordinated the production process, farming out
the work to the block carvers and printers, and
also managed the distribution of the prints in
the appropriate markets.
This volume champions the publisher the
enabler without whom the great artworkswhich inuenced painters like Monet,
Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and others,
would never have been produced.
Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints:
A Compendium focuses on the production process
of Japanese woodblock prints with an emphasis
on the role of the publisher. This publication
presents over 1,100 publishers, with comprehensive
lists of publications by a total of 572 artists and
facsimiles of over 2300 publisher seals, spanning
a time period from the 1650s to the 1990s.
The publisher entries include details on the
residence of a publisher, his clientele, the period
of his commercial activity as well as a list
of issued print series in chronological order.This listing oers insight into the status and
versatility of a publisher, as well as indicating
the publishers specialities, favoured artists a nd
the particular strategies pursued. With almost
600 pages of information on the publishers of
Japanese woodblock prints, this publication is
an essential reference work for scholars and
collectors of Japanese prints alike.
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Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium
Andreas Mark
December 2010
ISBN 978 90 04 18531 9
Hardback (576 pp.)
List price EUR 139.- / US$ 195.-
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