Ehon
Subtitle: The Artist And the Book in Japan
Publisher: New York Public Library
Published: October 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780295986241
Subjects: Asian studies; Asian; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Asia - General; Design - Book; Exhibitions; Illustrated books; Japan; New York; New York (State); Picture books
Description: "Ehon - or "picture books," in Japanese - are part of an incomparable 1,230-year-old Japanese tradition. Created by artists and craftsmen, most ehon also feature essays, poems, or other texts written in beautiful, distinctive calligraphy. They are by nature collaborations: visual artists, calligraphers, writers, and designers join forces with papermakers, binders, block cutters, and printers. The books they create are strikingly beautiful, highly charged microcosms of deep feeling, sharp intensity, and extraordinary intelligence. In the elegant, richly illustrated Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan, renowned scholar Roger S. Keyes traces the history and evolution of these remarkable books through seventy key works, including many great rarities and unique masterpieces, from the Spencer Collection of The New York Public Library, one of the foremost collections of Japanese illustrated books in the West."--Jacket.