Genji’s World in Japanese Woodblock Prints
Andreas Marks, with contributions by Bruce A. Coats, Michael Emmerich, Susanne Formanek, Sepp Linhart, and Rhiannon Paget
Biographical note
Andreas Marks is Director and Chief Curator at the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. He received his Ph.D. in Japanese art history from Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a M.A. in East Asian art history and Chinese studies from Bonn University, Germany. As a specialist in Japanese art, he is the author of Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks, 1680–1900 (2010), Publishers of Japanese Prints: A Compendium (Hotei Publishing, 2011), Fukami: Purity of Form (2011), and Kamisaka Sekka: Rinpa Traditionalist, Modern Designer (2012). His book Tōkaidō Print Series: Kunisada’s Puzzles is forthcoming from Hotei Publishing.
Readership
Scholars, curators, art dealers and collectors of Japanese art, in particular Japanese prints. This study is also of interest to scholars of Japanese literature (Tale of Genji and A Rustic Genji) and scholars of publishing history in Japan.
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