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Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) was one of the influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e, pictures of the floating world', in late eighteenth-century Japan, and was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women. This title presents a study of selected print sets, and reinterprets Utamaro in the context of his times.

Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty

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    A Hardback by Julie Nelson Davis

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      Publisher: Reaktion Books
      Publication Date: 9/1/2007
      ISBN13: 9781861893598, 978-1861893598
      ISBN10: 1861893590

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      Book Synopsis
      Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) was one of the influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e, pictures of the floating world', in late eighteenth-century Japan, and was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women. This title presents a study of selected print sets, and reinterprets Utamaro in the context of his times.

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