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Author
Series
Studia classica et mediaevalia volume Band 6
Publisher
Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Italiano
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, drawing on new sources available for the first time, shows how the way we look at a writer and his canon has changed over the course of the last two decades, presenting a fresh and relevant biography seen through a post-millennial prism.
Author
Series
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
"Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the Western world's visual idea of Japan. In many ways images of hedonism, ukiyo-e scenes often represented the bright lights and attractions of Edo (modern-day Tokyo): beautiful women, actors...