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Ehon : the artist and the book in Japan / Roger S. Keyes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: [New York] : Seattle : New York Public Library ; University of Washington Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 320 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0295986247
  • 9780295986241
Other title:
  • Artist and the book in Japan
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 741.6409520747471 22
LOC classification:
  • NC961.N49 N495 2006
Contents:
Ehon : an introduction -- The distinctive components of Japanese books.
Review: "Ehon - or "picture books," in Japanese - are part of an incomparable 1,230-year-old Japanese tradition. Created by artists and craftsmen, most ehon also feature essays, poems, or other texts written in beautiful, distinctive calligraphy. They are by nature collaborations: visual artists, calligraphers, writers, and designers join forces with papermakers, binders, block cutters, and printers. The books they create are strikingly beautiful, highly charged microcosms of deep feeling, sharp intensity, and extraordinary intelligence. In the elegant, richly illustrated Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan, renowned scholar Roger S. Keyes traces the history and evolution of these remarkable books through seventy key works, including many great rarities and unique masterpieces, from the Spencer Collection of The New York Public Library, one of the foremost collections of Japanese illustrated books in the West."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 741.6409520747471 KEY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A426566B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 741.6409520747471 KEY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A472620B

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan presented at The New York Public Library ... October 20, 2006-February 4, 2007"--P. [5].

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan presented at The New York Public Library...Oct. 20, 2006-Feb. 4, 2007."--Verso of t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-311) and index.

Ehon : an introduction -- The distinctive components of Japanese books.

"Ehon - or "picture books," in Japanese - are part of an incomparable 1,230-year-old Japanese tradition. Created by artists and craftsmen, most ehon also feature essays, poems, or other texts written in beautiful, distinctive calligraphy. They are by nature collaborations: visual artists, calligraphers, writers, and designers join forces with papermakers, binders, block cutters, and printers. The books they create are strikingly beautiful, highly charged microcosms of deep feeling, sharp intensity, and extraordinary intelligence. In the elegant, richly illustrated Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan, renowned scholar Roger S. Keyes traces the history and evolution of these remarkable books through seventy key works, including many great rarities and unique masterpieces, from the Spencer Collection of The New York Public Library, one of the foremost collections of Japanese illustrated books in the West."--BOOK JACKET.

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