Utamaro and the spectacle of beauty : the ukiyo-e artist in late eighteenth-century Japan /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Julie Nelson, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
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Online Access: Table of contents only
ISBN:9780824831998 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0824831993 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Utamaro, Ukiyo-e and the city of prints
  • Constructing the artist known as Utamaro
  • Pictures of beauties and other social physiognomies
  • Behind the brocade and other Yoshiwara illusions
  • Utamaro and the feminine spectacle
  • Making history into the pageant of the floating world.