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"The Japanese artist Katsukawa Shunsho gave his name to an entire school of artists who during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries designed a vast number of fine woodblock prints featuring the world of the Kabuki theater, especially its popular actors. In these prints strong and distinctive characterizations are coupled with complex and refined color-printing techniques, demonstrating not only the cultural importance of Kabuki theater but also the high quality of Japanese print making at this time." "The Katsukawa school prints presented in this comprehensive volume are drawn largely from The Art Institute of Chicago's Buckingham Collection, named for the prominent collector Clarence E. Buckingham and his sister Kate. This is the third in a series of comprehensive catalogues of this remarkable collection, one of the finest of its kind in the United States. The first, The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints, Vol. I, The Primitives (1955), was written by Helen Gunsaulus. The second volume, subtitled Harunobu, Koryusai, Shigemasa, Their Followers and Contemporaries (1965), was written by Margaret Gentles. The Actor's Image, presented in a new format, is based on near

Author

Clark, Timothy, 1959-

Publisher

Art Institute of Chicago in association with Princeton University Press, c1994.

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691036274

Subjects

Art, Memoir, Biography

Updated

2026-03-24