Super Potato Design is the first full-length book to present the work and conceptual ideas of the internationally renowned Japanese design firm Super Potato, founded by Takashi Sugimoto.
Super Potato's compelling designs for the interiors of restaurants, shops and hotels, as well as Takashi Sugimoto's designs for tea ceremony spaces and utensils, are richly complex compositions of materials which create simple, strong spaces.
Using traditional Japanese building materials such as bamboo, wood, and stone, but creating original yet timeless spaces, Super Potato's designs avoid specific stylistic characterizations and short-lived fashion. By finding contemporary expression for essential concepts present in traditional Japan and combining materials in unexpected ways to create exciting spaces, Super Potato's work has had a significant impact on interior design in Japan and throughout Asia.
Super Potato Design is generously illustrated with 320 full-color photographs by the respected Japanese photographer Yoshio Shiratori, who has recorded Super Potato's projects since the firm's conception in 1973. Architect and Japan scholar Mira Locher introduces the ideas and influences of Takashi Sugimoto, the founder and principal designer of Super Potato, and provides a thorough explanation of each project. Architectural drawings further describe the projects. A forward by Tadao Anso, interviews between Takashi Sugimoto and architect Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama, and also graphic designer Kenya Hara, explore the ideas relevant to Japanese designers today. A list of the Complete Works of Super Potato rounds off the book.
A landmark book presenting the early "deluxe" versions of Hiroshige's Edo prints for the first time!
Utagawa Hiroshige's unique landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), first published in the 1850s, is among the best-known collections of Japanese prints and was revolutionary in its day. Individual prints from this collection are regarded as among the finest works in all of Japanese art.
In this series, Hiroshige captures 118 locations in and around Edo, today's Tokyo, during all four seasons and often from hitherto unknown and unique perspectives. These views were first printed in exquisite luxury versions, incorporating innovative woodblock printing features like color gradation. No complete set of the early versions exists today and this is the first book to present a complete set of the deluxe early printings, sourced from 32 different museums and private collections.
Author Andreas Marks consulted 4,700 prints in order to compile this definitive guide to Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. Marks presents the various printed versions along with reference images showing how and where Hiroshige sourced his ideas for each view-from previous books and illustrations. The result is a definitive guide to understanding the complexity of Hiroshige's great work as well as the dynamics of the Japanese print market during this period.
Marks' introduction discusses the genesis of the series in the context of Japanese landscape art as well as Hiroshige's personal biography. The book then presents all 118 prints together with their source materials and a map showing the locations of each view, followed by a detailed appendix discussing the great color variations found in subsequent printings of the series.
L'art et la vie de Fukuda Kodojin est la première publication en anglais à proposer un examen approfondi de la vie, de la peinture et de la poésie de Fukuda Kodojin (1865-1944). Artiste aux multiples facettes, reconnu pour sa poésie, sa peinture et sa calligraphie, il fait partie des rares artistes qui ont perpétué la tradition de la peinture des lettrés japonais (nanga) jusqu'au XXe siècle. Cette publication richement illustrée reproduits des oeuvres conservées dans des musées et de collections privées du monde entier et est le résultat de quinze années de recherches approfondies sur près de huit cents oeuvres de poésie inscrite, de paysages de lettrés, de peintures au pinceau et de calligraphie. Ce regard contemplatif sur le monde de Kodojin accompagne une exposition organisée au Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Superb Yokai images from the world's leading museums and private collections!
Japan's vast pantheon of supernatural creatures includes demons (yokai), monsters, ogres (oni), ghosts (yurei) and magicians--mythical beings from folklore and popular culture which continue to thrill readers of traditional stories and manga today.
This richly illustrated book by Andreas Marks, the leading authority on Japanese woodblock prints, presents authentic illustrations and descriptions of 100 different creatures, including:
Bakeneko: Monster cats in human form who lick lamp oil and prey on humans born in the year of the Rat Han'nya: Female demons with sharp and pointed horns, metallic eyes and a smirking smile Hihi: Large ape-like monsters who live in the mountains and have superhuman strength, enabling them to kidnap and kill humans Mikoshi-nyudo: Yokai with an enormously extended necks who appear only at night And many more!
The striking visual examples in this book are drawn from the rich canon of early Japanese prints, books, and paintings--sourced from leading museums, libraries and private collections worldwide. They show the "original" forms and appearances of the creatures which form the basis for all subsequent depictions.
Also included are two long handscrolls from the Minneapolis Institute of Art (A Collection of Monsters and Night Parade of One Hundred Demons) which are reproduced here for the very first time.
Prints and Paintings sourced from the following list of museums, libraries and private collections:
Art Institute of Chicago.
Christie's, London & New York.
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
Kyoto University, Main Library.
Library of Congress.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Minneapolis Institute of Art.
National Museum of Japanese History.
Princeton University Library.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Smithsonian Libraries
Tous les aspects de l'estampe japonaise sont étudiés dans cet ouvrage magnifiquement illustré. En plus des techniques et des artistes, on découvre des aspects peu connus de cet art : son succès commercial, les stratégies des éditeurs de l'époque et sa diffusion dans le Japon ancien.
This book contains many famous woodblock prints by masters such as Utagawa Hiroshige, Kitagawa Utamaro, and Utagawa Kunisada that currently hang in prestigious galleries and museums worldwide.
