Utamaro and the spectacle of beauty
Subtitle: the ukiyo-e artist in late eighteenth-century Japan
By: Julie Nelson Davis.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780824831998
Subjects: Kitagawa, Utamaro, -- 1753?-1806 -- Criticism and interpretation; Ukiyoe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction Utamaro, Ukiyo-e and the city of prints; title: Constructing the artist known as Utamaro; title: Pictures of beauties and other social physiognomies; title: Behind the brocade and other Yoshiwara illusions; title: Utamaro and the feminine spectacle; title: Making history into the pageant of the floating world.