Chavouet Florent
Chavouet Florent - Tokyo On Foot Travels In The City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods - Paperback
Chavouet Florent - Tokyo On Foot Travels In The City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods - Paperback
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Description: This prize - winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm funny visually rich and always entertaining graphic memoir. Florent Chavouet a young graphic artist spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. Each day he would set forth with a pouch full of color pencils and a sketchpad and visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. It isn't the Tokyo of packaged tours and glossy guidebooks but a grittier vibrant place full of ordinary people going about their daily lives and the scenes and activities that unfold on the streets of a bustling metropolis. Here you find businessmen and businesswomen hipsters students grandmothers shopkeepers police officers and other urban types and tribes in all manner of dress and hairstyles. A temple nestles among skyscrapers; the corner grocery anchors a diverse assortment of dwellings cafes and shops often tangled in electric lines. The artist mixes styles and tags his pictures with wry comments and observations. Realistically rendered advertisements or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes like a housewife walking her pet pig a Godzilla statue in a local park and an urban fishing pond that charges 400 yen per half hour. This very personal guide to Tokyo is organized by neighborhood with hand - drawn maps that provide an overview of each neighborhood but what defines them is what caught the artist's eye and attracted his formidable drawing talent. Florent Chavouet begins his introduction by observing that " Tokyo is said to be the most beautiful of ugly cities." With wit a playful sense of humor and the multicolor pencils of his kit he sets aside the question of urban ugliness or beauty and captures the Japanese essence of a great city in this genuinely vital portrait.
Title: Tokyo On Foot Travels In The City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods
Author(s): Chavouet Florent
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Barcode: 9784805311370
Pages: 208 Pages, Full-Color Illus Throughout
Publication Date: 6/10/2011
Category: Travel Writing
Description: This prize - winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm funny visually rich and always entertaining graphic memoir. Florent Chavouet a young graphic artist spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. Each day he would set forth with a pouch full of color pencils and a sketchpad and visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. It isn't the Tokyo of packaged tours and glossy guidebooks but a grittier vibrant place full of ordinary people going about their daily lives and the scenes and activities that unfold on the streets of a bustling metropolis. Here you find businessmen and businesswomen hipsters students grandmothers shopkeepers police officers and other urban types and tribes in all manner of dress and hairstyles. A temple nestles among skyscrapers; the corner grocery anchors a diverse assortment of dwellings cafes and shops often tangled in electric lines. The artist mixes styles and tags his pictures with wry comments and observations. Realistically rendered advertisements or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes like a housewife walking her pet pig a Godzilla statue in a local park and an urban fishing pond that charges 400 yen per half hour. This very personal guide to Tokyo is organized by neighborhood with hand - drawn maps that provide an overview of each neighborhood but what defines them is what caught the artist's eye and attracted his formidable drawing talent. Florent Chavouet begins his introduction by observing that " Tokyo is said to be the most beautiful of ugly cities." With wit a playful sense of humor and the multicolor pencils of his kit he sets aside the question of urban ugliness or beauty and captures the Japanese essence of a great city in this genuinely vital portrait.
Title: Tokyo On Foot Travels In The City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods
Author(s): Chavouet Florent
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Barcode: 9784805311370
Pages: 208 Pages, Full-Color Illus Throughout
Publication Date: 6/10/2011
Category: Travel Writing
