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DREAM
SPECTRES
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"One of the best art books of 2010. This incredible collection
of images smashes open the floodgates of extreme ukiyo-e for Western
audiences, presenting more than 250 colour reproductions, most of which
would be impossible to find otherwise. ... There are works here that
will have you collecting your eyeballs off the table... a great mindfuck
for any morbid art lover." UKIYO-E – “images from the floating world” – were the most popular art-form of 19th century Japan. Like modern-day manga, these prints could be mass-produced and were admired by people from all sectors of society; and as in manga, the art of ukiyo-e included significant sub-genres dealing in violence. erotica and horror. With unflinching images of weird sex, bloody carnage and grotesque, demonic ghosts, DREAM SPECTRES is a powerful collection of the extremes of ukiyo-e, featuring the work of such artists as Yoshitoshi, Ekin, Kunichika, Yoshiiku, Kunisada, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, Yoshitsuya, Hiroshige, and Chikanobu. DREAM SPECTRES features over 250 amazing full-colour
images, including the complete Eimei Nijuhasshuku (“28 Blood
Atrocities”) of Yoshitoshi and Yoshiiku, and ranging in content
from bondage and bestiality to decapitations, demons, dragons and designs
for classic irezumi (body tattoos). This is Japanese art not
only at its extremes of imagination, but often at its most highly accomplished
and innovative. No comparable collection has previously been published
in the English language. With text by Jack Hunter, author of Eros
In Hell. PUBLICATION:
APRIL 26 2010 |