Kimono as Art Itchiku Kubota 久保田一竹

Kimono as Art The Landscape of Itchiku Kubota DALE CAROLYN GLUCKMAN Thames & Hudson San Diego museum of art 英語の本です 一竹辻ヶ花で有名な久保田一竹の作品集だと思います 海外の美術館の図録なのかもしれません 着物の写真がたくさんある綺麗な本です。 表紙の裏に金色でサイン?のようなものが入っていますがサインなのかそういう意匠なのかはわかりません。 そちら方面と親交のある者の蔵書だったので、もしかしたらサインかもしれません。 価値のわかる方に持っていていただきたいため出品しました。 This lavishly illustrated book showcases fifty-five masterworks by Japanese kimono artist Itchiku Kubota (1917-2003). Initially determined to unlock the secrets of dyed and painted Japanese textiles of the fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries, Kubota ultimately invented a unique method of decoration. His work combines stitch-resist and ink drawing with a complex layering of color to achieve hauntingly beautiful landscapes with richly textured surfaces and an impressionistic rendering of nature never before seen in the textile arts. Although Kubota produced kimono for Japanese celebrities, his primary endeavor was the creation of a series of monumental kimonos intended only for