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| - | '''''Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo-e: Sex, Blood & the Supernatural''''' is a 2009 book on [[ukiyo-e]] in the [[muzan-e]] and [[eroguronansensu]] style by [[Creation Books]]. | + | '''Irezumi''' is Japanese for [[tattoo]]. |
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| - | Includes [[Yoshitoshi]] and many other artists, all in full colour. | + | |
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| - | :" 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 the acclaimed and influential ''[[Eros in Hell]]''. Here are the original images of female ghosts which inspired huge movie hits like ''[[The Ring]]'' and ''[[The Grudge]]''; here are the gruesome [[samurai]] pictures, the demons, the panoramas of Hell, the mythical beasts and dragons, the blood-soaked scenes from kabuki theatre; here are the most explicit and exaggerated pornographic images of [[shunga]]; here are the legendary atrocity prints of Yoshitoshi; here are the amazing tattoo designs which were taken up by Japan's [[yakuza]] and now serve as inspiration for tattoo designers worldwide. And here is a compendium of some of the most innovative and dazzling works in the history of art. | + | |
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