The Eye Of Atrocity: Superviolent Art by Yoshitoshi (Ukiyo-e Master Series)

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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, apprenticed to ukiyo-e master Kuniyoshi since his adolescence, used to be 20 years old when he first started to make sketches of severed heads and dismembered corpses. Soon he would begin to incorporate this imagery into his work, and his vivid and bloody battle scenes quickly caught the public eye. Most of Yoshitoshi’s mushs-e (“warrior pictures”) triptychs and series between 1861 and 1869 would come with his trademark scenes of carnage, in particular Eimei Nijuhasshuku (1866-68), a collaboration with fellow artist Ochiai Yoshiiku. This series used to be an unashamed exercise in atrocity which took the concept that of muzan-e (“cruelty prints”) to new extremes of violence and gore. In 1868, Yoshitoshi used to be a first-hand witness to the Battle of Ueno, a cataclysmic clash which further inspired him to create new images of evisceration and decapitation.

THE EYE OF ATROCITY collects and considers over 80 of essentially the most blood-drenched and disturbing artistic endeavors produced by Yoshitoshi all over his career, presented in large-format and full-colour right through.

NEW REVISED EXPANDED AND UPGRADED EDITION: Many new pictures, 8 extra pages, improved picture quality right through, high-gauge paper stock.

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