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Fine Art Wire Weaving: Weaving Techniques for Stunning Jewelry Designs by Sarah Thompson
Category: Art and Design
Wire jewelry has never been more popular--but you've never seen projects like this before! In Fine Art Wire Weaving, award-winning author Sarah Thompson shares her secrets to creating wire jewelry that's nothing short of spectacular. Using super-fine wires to create 20 delicate, sophisticated pieces, yo ...Show more
Genji: the Prince and the Parodies by Sarah E. Thompson
Category: Art and Design
How artists have interpreted the intrigues and love stories of The Tale of Genji, one of the world's oldest novelsLady Murasaki's Tale of Genji has delighted readers for more than 1,000 years and inspired writers to create numerous parodies. Artists have responded with a rich parallel tradition illustra ...Show more
Hokusai by Sarah E. Thompson; Joan Wright
Category: Art and Design
Over a century and a half after his death, Katsushika Hokusai is still one of Japan's most popular and influential artists. This handy volume presents the wide range of Hokusai's artistic production in terms of one of his most remarkable characteristics: his intellectual ingenuity. It attempts to answer ...Show more
Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence by Hokusai (Artist); Sarah E. Thompson (Text by)
Category: Art and Design
How artists from Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi to Whistler and Arthur Wesley Dow embraced and transformed Hokusai's dynamic style and innovationsThe great painter, book illustrator and print designer Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) has become the best known of all Japanese artists and one of the most famous an ...Show more
Hokusai's Landscapes - The Complete Series by Sarah E. Thompson
Category: Art and Design
The first book to focus exclusively on Hokusai's landscapes, by one of the world's leading ukiyo-e specialists The best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was active as a painter, book illustrator and print designer throughout his ninety-year lifespan. Yet his most famous works of all - t ...Show more
Hokusai's Lost Manga by Sarah E. Thompson
Category: Art and Design
A mysterious 1823 advertisement for illustrated books by renowned artist Katsushika Hokusai refers to an otherwise unknown work called Master Iitsu's Chicken-Rib Picture Book. According to the ad, the book was conceived in the same year that the final volume of Hokusai's famous Manga series was supposed ...Show more
Kuniyoshi X Kunisada by Sarah E. Thompson
Category: Art and Design
An exploration of the rivalry between Kuniyoshi and Kunisada, two of the most popular Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artists of the nineteenth century, based on masterworks from the peerless Japanese art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Rival ukiyo-e masters Kuniyoshi and Kunisada were t ...Show more
Pictures of the Floating World: An Introduction to Japanese Prints by SARAH E. THOMPSON
Category: Art and Design | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A new staple volume on Japanese art, in an eminently giftable format. In Edo Japan, woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e ("pictures of the Floating World") captured the entertainment culture of the urban elite and eventually many other subjects as well. These beautiful prints were the result of a meticulou ...Show more
Tattoos in Japanese Prints by Sarah E. Thompson
Category: Art and Design
Reproduces ukiyo-e prints from the incomparable collection of Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Many tattoo connoisseurs consider the Japanese tradition to be the finest in the world for its detail, complexity, and compositional skill. Its style and subject matter are drawn from the visua ...Show more
Woven in Wire - Dimensional Wire Weaving in Fine Art Jewelry by Sarah Thompson
Category: Craft
Weave - Sculpt - Transform Break through the boundaries of traditional wirework jewelry to discover the world of intricate possibilities in Woven in Wire. As you weave, sculpt, and transform wire, award winning jeweler and wirework instructor Sarah Thompson guides you through the steps of achieving spec ...Show more
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