The floating world : James A. Michener ; with commentary by Howard A. Link.
Author(s): Michener, James Albert
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- The floating world
- Author(s)
- Michener, James Albert
- Publisher
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1983.
- Collation
- xviii, 453 p. : ill.
23 cm. - ISBN
- 0824808738
- Dewey Class
- 769.952
- Contents
- Illustrations -- James A. Michener: Author, Connoisseur, Collector, and Museum Patron -- An Explanation -- 1. In the Village of Otsu -- 2. The Land and the People -- 3. The Sovereign Line -- 4. The City and the Stage -- 5. The Dramatic Vision -- 6. The Floating World -- 7. The Function of the Symbol -- 8. The Role of the Inventor -- 9. The Exquisite Vision -- 10. The Basic Principles of Ukiyo-e -- 11. Integrity and the Artist -- 12. The Inevitable Prison -- 13. The Complete Artist -- 14. Certain Facts Not Widely Known -- 15. How It Was Done -- 16. The Popular Symbol -- 17. Art's Mystery -- 18. Must an Artist Be Original? -- 19. The Life of the Artist -- 20. The Other Books -- 21. The Function of the Eye -- 22. Why an Art Dies -- 23. The Dispersal -- 24. Japanese Prints Today -- The Prints -- Chronological Chart -- Biographies -- The Floating World Thirty Years Later -- Bibliography -- Index and Glossary.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Color prints, Japanese.
- BRN
- 6127
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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769.952 MIC
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