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From Beyond The Stars: Innovation And Inspiration In Meiji Japanese Art, 1868-1912, Charles Mason, Madeleine Zimmerman, Joe Earle, Tom Wagner

Kruizenga Art Museum Exhibition Catalogs

Design by Tom Wagner. Photography by the Kruizenga Art Museum, Tom Wagner, and Curatorial Assistance/WorldBridge Art, Inc. Produced by Storming the Castle Pictures (StCP) for the Kruizenga Art Museum as a catalogue for the exhibition, "From Beyond the Stars," August 29 - December 16, 2017.

Blue Yodo Waltz, Kyoko Matsunaga, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 scroll. "Rivers are the source of all development, and civilizations are made up of individuals. The original of this scroll was a collage on a QRS player piano roll of Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss) which I happened to find at an antique shop. When I lived in Osaka, I took pictures of ordinary local people while walking along the city's iconic Yodo river all the way to the bay as a collection of slice-of-life scenes of people in the limited area and time that I could experience at first hand, and laid them on the stream of the elegant …

Japan: The World Of My Dreams, Nicholas Felton, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Gaijin Da!, Michael Silva, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

This book was completed for Jan Baker's Papermaking artists' book class.

Forms In Japan, Yasuyo Iguchi, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Hana Shishū (花詩集) | Flower Poetry Collection, Kawarazaki Kōdō, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pattern, Ornament, and Decoration

Classical patterns for dyeing. Volumes : color illustrations ; 31 cm. Folding books, Acordion style binding.

CONTENTS: 1-3. Mon'yō no maki -- 4. Hamon no maki -- 5. Mizu no maki -- 6. Unka no maki -- 7. Shikishi no maki

Library has no. 5 only. Gift of the Estate of Sol P. Kaufman. Volume is an accordion style fold, illustrated endpapers on the front board. Each page spread contains 6 or more stenciled blocks of patterns designs. Volume number from applied strip on front cover, hand calligraphed in Japanese.

Abstract Pattern Portfolio, Mizuki Heitaro, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pattern, Ornament, and Decoration

1 sheet of text, 32 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 40 cm. In half-cloth portfolio. Eight plates are color stencilled, twenty-four are color printed (color lithography). The portfolio comprises 99 designs, four of which are full page. Color plate mounted on portfolio cover. Mizuki develops his patterns from a mathematical starting point, devising combinations of basic geometric shapes from equations. His work is influenced by the European Art Deco aesthetic, most notably drawing from M. P. Verneuil's portfolio, Kaleidoscope - Ornements Abstraits (Paris 1926). All text in Japanese.

Japanese Art, Sadakichi Hartmann, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Art History

288 pages, [22] leaves of plates : color frontispiece, illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index. Decorated cloth binding in green, light green and gold, signed "FR"? Gold leaf on top of text block. Gift of the Estate of William E. Brigham

Motifs Décoratifs Tirés Des Pochoirs Japonais, Thoédore Lambert, Charles Massin, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pochoir

[4] pages, 50 leaves of plates : chiefly illus. ; 43 x 32 cm.

Issued in tied portfolio. "Paris. L. Maretheux, imprimeur, 1, Rue Cassette."--Verso of page [4]. Date of imprint is from verso, page [4]. Louise Hetzer Memorial Fund.

Hokusai Manga (北斎漫画), Tenmangu Godenki Ryakuja, Vol. 2, Katsushika Hokusai, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Gorham Manufacturing Company Design Library

Original woodblock printed Hokusai Manga book. An abbreviated history, with illustrations, of the Tenmangu, a famous Shinto shrine in Kyoto. Navy blue covers stab-bound with thread missing/removed. [numbered label on cover:] 620 ; O-12.

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese printmaker, painter, 1760-1849) is noted for Edo period works of ukiyo-e ('pictures of the floating world') in painting and printmaking. He had a long career of over 70 years and is thought to have created over 30,000 drawings and illustrations for 500 books under multiple names typically associated with shifts in production and style. Since the late 19th century, his work has had …

Hokusai Manga (北斎漫画), Tenmangu Godenki Ryakuja, Vol. 1, Katsushika Hokusai, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Gorham Manufacturing Company Design Library

Original woodblock printed Hokusai Manga book. An abbreviated history, with illustrations, of the Tenmangu, a famous Shinto shrine in Kyoto. Navy blue covers stab-bound with yellow thread.

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese printmaker, painter, 1760-1849) is noted for Edo period works of ukiyo-e ('pictures of the floating world') in painting and printmaking. He had a long career of over 70 years and is thought to have created over 30,000 drawings and illustrations for 500 books under multiple names typically associated with shifts in production and style. Since the late 19th century, his work has had a significant impact on Western artists, including …