DEMON OF PAINTING: ART OF KWANABE KYOSAI.

CLARK, Timothy.

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London 1993, British Museum. Gray pictorial wrs, "AS NEW" copy, 192p., 122 color, 163 b. w. photos, 1 folding, index, bibliography, appendix, 22 x 27.5 cm., a very solid, sharp & bright UNUSED EXAMPLE. * RARE FIRST & ONLY SMALL EDITION * *** *** *** . . A VERY RARE MONOGRAPH ILLUSTRATING . . . THE UNIQUE & IMAGINATIVE . . . PAINTINGS OF KAWANABE KYOSAI [GYOSAI] . . * KAWANABE Kyosai [1831-1889]: He was a Japanese artist, in the words of British Museum Kyosai scholar & art historian Timothy Clarke: "An individualist and an independent, perhaps the last virtuoso in traditional Japanese painting." . *** There are very few monographs in English strictly devoted to the unique, fascinating paintings and woodblock prints & books [E-hon] by Kyosai. . This is a well-illustrated monograph, with informative introduction. A catalog with 112 well-described items, with additional descriptive text about each item. . Clark is a well-known authority on Kyosai. His knowledge of the artist and his genre are unsurpassed. The work is enhanced with a good number of color plates, including foldout color plates. . An essential resource for collectors, students and museums. . Kyosai was a prolific and somewhat 'crazy' [Kyo] artist, creating unique and often bizarre and gruesome graphic works. His medium was painting and woodblock color prints. . He remains one of Japan's most marvelous, imaginative and most creative artists of the times. . *** Color photos are posted to our website . *** CONDITION: This is bound in the original publisher's stiff color pictorial wrappers. About as good as it can get, LIKE NEW, UNUSED example. Long out of print, printed in a small British Museum edition. . *** REFERENCE: . See Wikipedia article. . *.

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