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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 63. Chapters: Tsuguharu Foujita, Utamaro, Hokusai, Faile, Toyohara Kunichika, Yoshitaka Amano, Hiroshige, Ei-Q, Shik Munakata, Schools of ukiyo-e artists, It Shinsui, Kubota Beisen, Hiroshi Yoshida, Hashiguchi Goy, Hodaka Yoshida, K shir Onchi, T shi Yoshida, Sadao Watanabe, Ayomi Yoshida, Shusaku Arakawa, Utagawa Yoshiiku, Katsukawa Shunsh, Hasui Kawase, Urakusai Nagahide, Yoshitoshi Mori, Fujio Yoshida, Chizuko Yoshida, Unichi Hiratsuka, Utagawa Yoshitsuya, Katsukawa Shunk I, Tadanori Yokoo, Utagawa Yoshitora, Katsukawa Shunsen, Katsukawa Shunch, Gat ken Shunshi, Yamamoto Sh un, Utagawa Yoshitaki, Torii Kiyomasu, Shunbaisai Hokuei, Ry k sai Jokei, Gigad Ashiyuki, Hiroshige II, Utagawa Kunimasa, K no Bairei, Eish sai Ch ki, Utagawa Kunimasu, Kikukawa Eizan, Kitao Shigemasa, Watanabe Shozaburo, Utagawa Hirokage, Shunk sai Hokush, Koryusai, Tadashige Ono, Hiroshige III, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Tajima, Hirosada II, Masuo Ikeda, Itow Takumi, Maki Haku, Kiyoshi Sait, Hiroshi Tomihari, Masao Maeda, Masamitsu Ota, Tadashi Nakayama, Harukawa Eizan, Naka Bokunen. Excerpt: FAILE (Pronounced "fail") is a Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration between Patrick McNeil (b. 1975, Edmonton, CA) and Patrick Miller (b. 1976, Minneapolis, MN). Since its inception in 1999, FAILE is known for their pioneering use of wheatpasting and stenciling in the increasingly established arena of street art, and for their explorations of duality through a fragmented style of appropriation and collage. During this time, FAILE adapted its signature mass culture-driven iconography to a wide array of media, from wooden boxes and window pallets to more traditional canvas, prints, sculptures, stencils, multimedia installation, and prayer wheels. While FAILE's work is constructed from found visual imagery, and blurs the line between "high" and "low" cultu...