Japanese Beauties

by Taschen (editor), Alex Gross

Geisha goddesses and more Representing the Japanese ideal of beauty, the woman featured in these colorful illustrations and photographs beam with reassuring smiles and glowing complexions. Though haircuts and clothing styles changed through the years, the women's faces have retained the same familiar features.

Genres: Art, Japan

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2004

About the author

'Taschen is an art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany. It began as Taschen Comics publishing Benedikt's extensive comic collection. Taschen has been a noteworthy force in making lesser-seen art available to mainstream bookstores, including some fetishistic imagery, queer art, historical erotica, pornography and adult magazines (including multiple books with Playboy magazine). Taschen has helped bring this art into broader public view, by publishing these potentially controversial volumes alongside its more mainstream books of comics reprints, art photography, painting, design, fashion, advertising history, film, and architecture.' - Wikipedia

Reviews

[7jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has various print advertisements from the first half of 20th Century Japan, featuring women, selling women's products but also everyday products. Beautiful women to sell things. The pictures are either black and white or color. Very interesting and entertaining, I certainly enjoyed looking at them :)

[Thiago Freitas · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not so beauty graphics compiled