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Title:
One thousand years of manga / Brigitte Koyama-Richard ; [translated from the French by David Radzinowicz].
ISBN:
9782080300294
Personal Author:
Edition:
English-language edition.
Publication Information:
Paris : Flammarion, [2007]
[New York] : distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications
©2007
Physical Description:
247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
General Note:
"Simultaneously published in French as Mille ans de manga"--T.p. verso.
Contents:
The origins of manga -- The magic of the scroll: from the earliest caricatures to the onset of the comic strip -- The birth of the Japanese print: the golden age of caricature -- The dawn of a new type of caricature: Japan opens up to the West -- The rise of the comic strip to the second world war -- Tezuka Osamu: the "god" of modern manga -- Manga today -- Selected portraits of manga artists -- From the manga to anime: the work of Studio Ghibli -- Reciprocal influences -- Glossary -- Timeline -- Our ancestors the mangaka -- Chronology -- Recent statistics from Japan -- Selected bibliography.
Summary:
Traces the history of Japanese art from the seventh century through the present, offering insight into its long-time role in Japanese culture and the social factors that are shaping its development in the modern world.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn181069637
Availability:
South St. Paul - Kaposia~1
