Utamaro

by Edmond de Goncourt

If sensuality had a name, it would be without a doubt Utamaro. Delicately underlining the Garden of Pleasures that once constituted Edo, Utamaro, by the richness of his fabrics, the long necks of swans, the mysterious looks, evoke in a few lines the sensual pleasure of the Orient.

Genres: Art

255 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

French writer and literary and art critic Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt published books and founded the Académie Goncourt. His brother is Jules de Goncourt.

Reviews

[Ale]

An amazingly detailed analysis of Utamaro's works. The author's name, however, is misleading. I thought that it was going to be a direct translation of Edmond De Goncourt's book, but as I've gathered, De Goncourt's book is just one of the sources used to write this one.