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Contemporary Japanese Posters by Gian Carlo Calza
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This book brings together the best of Japanese graphic design in the posters that accompanied Japan from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics to the creation of the Issey Miyake logo, and from the Osaka Expo to the official poster for the Pan-Pacific Design Congress. Kenya Hara was born in the province of Okyama in ...Show more
Hokusai by Gian Carlo Calza
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This big and beautiful book presents a comprehensive survey of the work of one of Japan's greatest and most influential artists, together with a collection of essays that focus on a key aspects of the master's career. The book opens with an introductory essay by Gian Carlo Calza presenting an overview o ...Show more
Japan Style by Gian Carlo Calza
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
An authoritative and wide-ranging visual essay on the aesthetics of Japan, now in a beautiful paperback edition. Japan Style, written by one of the world's most respected scholars of Japanese art and culture, defines what 'Japan style' is. It explores specific achievements in Japanese art and architect ...Show more
Japan Style by Gian Carlo Calza
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This book describes and defines what 'Japan style' is. It explores specific achievements in Japanese art and architecture, but also offers an in-depth analysis of the whole of Japanese culture, its vision of the world and of humankind. 'Japan style' is something recognizable to everyone: a beautifully a ...Show more
Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories by Gian Carlo Calza
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated study of traditional Japanese erotic art. Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories examines the artistic developments of Japanese erotic art from the ukiyo-e period, dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. Known by the delicat ...Show more
Poem of the Pillow and Other Stories: By Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and Other Artists of the Floating World by Gian Carlo Calza
$69.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
Shunga, such as the famous Japanese erotic pillow books, also known euphemistically as 'spring images', were vibrant, curious and explicit documents of sexual life, designed to inform, thrill and entertain. This book presents a comprehensive modern study on Japanese erotic art, illustrating a large sele ...Show more
Ukiyo-e by Gian Carlo Calza
$160.00 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
In this impressive study Professor Calza examines images of the floating world (ukiyo-e) found in paintings, screens, illustrated books and, above all, the numerous woodblock prints that nineteenth-century French artists were to find so influential. Through six essays and six catalogue sections this boo ...Show more
Ukiyo-e by Gian Carlo Calza
$79.95 AUD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good
In this impressive study, Gian Carlo Calza examines images of the floating world (ukiyo-e) found in paintings, screens, illustrated books and, above all, the numerous woodblock prints that nineteenth-century French artists were to find so influential. Through six essays and six catalogue sections this b ...Show more
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