Author: HILLIER, J.
Title: Japanese Art in the Shijo Style: The Uninhibited Brush
Description: Hugh M.Moss (Publishing) Limited, London. 1974, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0902717065). Hardcover. Book, English text.; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket in slipcase - as issued).; 25 x 31.5 cm; 3.3 Kg; 378 pages with black and white and colour illustrations throughout; Signs of wear on the exterior and minor signs of wear on the interior. The title on the exterior spine is faded. Very good condition overall.; LIMITED EDITON OF 1000 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 453.; "It seemed best to concentrate on the period from the inception of the style in the 1790 until is full flowering in the 1830s, and to deal only briefly with subsequent events and issues in an Epilogue. This book does not therefore purport to be an exhaustive account of the Shijo movement, but it encompasses the intricate and complex process that led up to the 'ultimate' in Shijo during what may be thought of as the 'vital years'. Coupled with this exposition of paintings that are the summation of inspiration, verve, and skill is another: that of the wood-block prints in album, book or separate sheet form which brought the art of Shijo within the range of a wide and discriminating middle-class public and exist now as an art-form in their own right. The picture-books are slightly better known in the West than the original paintings and have been collected by a discerning few ever since Japan cease to be incommunicado, but here they are for the first time dealt with not simply as masterpieces of wood-block printing, but also as the means of illustrating still further the work of artists whose principal output was more often than not in painting." excerpt from the foreword. Good/No Jacket.

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