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An Artist of the Floating World
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Kazuo Ishiguro
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-05 - Publisher: Vintage

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland
Painting the Floating World
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Janice Katz
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-08 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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From the 17th through the 19th century, artists in Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo) captured the metropolitan amusements of the floating world (ukiyo in Japanese) thro
Visions of Fuji
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Michael Kerrigan
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-01 - Publisher: Flame Tree Illustrated

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Mount Fuji has been a source of inspiration and awe since ancient times, and artists have been reproducing its likeness since at least the 14th century, as it b
The Floating World
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: C. Morgan Babst
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-17 - Publisher: Algonquin Books

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“Set in New Orleans, this important and powerful novel follows the Boisdoré family . . . in the months after Katrina. A profound, moving and authentically de
Artists of the Floating World
Language: en
Pages: 150
Authors: Rob Burton
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: University Press of America

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This work analyzes the fiction of four contemporary multicultural writers who render a 'floating world' in which cultures converge or collide in unexpected, exc