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Who can forget the quaint accounts of small coteries of European avant-garde artists who, in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, appropriated formal elements of Japanese ukiyo-e prints and African masks in their painting and sculpture.
G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture G. Roger Denson 2011
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And those figurative ukiyo-e prints literally "of the floating world" of geisha, courtesans, prostitutes, and queer samaurai and kabuki actors beloved by the impressionists and their ilk as often as not chronicled the last gasp of indigenous pan-sexuality that moralistic Western states demanded the Japanese purge themselves of in order to benefit from their much-needed trade.
G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture G. Roger Denson 2011
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Certainly, in ukiyo-e portraiture, artists convey identity and character primarily through dress and symbols.
How Japan Saw Us Lee Lawrence 2010
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Gajin Fujita blends a rich diversity of cultural influences that range from traditional Japanese ukiyo-e to contemporary manga; from American pop culture to East L.A. street-life iconography and graffiti.
Bill Bush: Made in L.A.: This Artweek.LA (October 10-16, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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Cartoonist Steve Bialik has gone and mixed Japanese ukiyo-e style art with the best thing that ever happened inside of George Lucas 'brain, to bring us Samurai Wars.
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At one extreme is Hiroshige II, adopted son of the more famous ukiyo-e artist by the same name.
How Japan Saw Us Lee Lawrence 2010
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The 118 ukiyo-e prints were reproduced from a series of original wood-block prints in the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo, one of the few complete series consisting entirely of impressions from the first run.
Jane Chafin: Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: A Luscious -- and Affordable -- Must-Have Art Book Jane Chafin 2011
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The 118 ukiyo-e prints were reproduced from a series of original wood-block prints in the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo, one of the few complete series consisting entirely of impressions from the first run.
Jane Chafin: Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: A Luscious -- and Affordable -- Must-Have Art Book Jane Chafin 2011
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So while artists in 1860s Paris were discovering the beauty of Japanese "floating world" — or ukiyo-e — woodblock prints, many Japanese artists were heading to Yokohama, scouring European publications and creating their own genre of exotica: the Yokohama-e.
How Japan Saw Us Lee Lawrence 2010
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Cartoonist Steve Bialik has gone and mixed Japanese ukiyo-e style art with the best thing that ever happened inside of George Lucas 'brain, to bring us Samurai Wars.
April 2010 2010
darqueau commented on the word ukiyo-e
"pictures of the floating world"
July 7, 2008