Author: Julie Nelson Davis
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824889339
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Today we think of ukiyo-e—“the pictures of the floating world”—as masterpieces of Japanese art, highly prized throughout the world. Yet it is often said that ukiyo-e were little appreciated in their own time and were even used as packing material for ceramics. In Picturing the Floating World, Julie Nelson Davis debunks this myth and demonstrates that ukiyo-e was thoroughly appreciated as a field of artistic production, worthy of connoisseurship and canonization by its contemporaries. Putting these images back into their dynamic context, she shows how consumers, critics, and makers produced and sold, appraised and collected, and described and recorded ukiyo-e. She recovers this multilayered world of pictures in which some were made for a commercial market, backed by savvy entrepreneurs looking for new ways to make a profit, while others were produced for private coteries and high-ranking connoisseurs seeking to enrich their cultural capital. The book opens with an analysis of period documents to establish the terms of appraisal brought to ukiyo-e in late eighteenth-century Japan, mapping the evolution of the genre from a century earlier and the development of its typologies and the creation of a canon of makers—both of which have defined the field ever since. Organized around divisions of major technological and aesthetic developments, the book reveals how artistic practice and commercial enterprise were intertwined throughout ukiyo-e’s history, from its earliest imagery through the twentieth century. The depiction of particular subjects in and for the floating world of urban Edo and the process of negotiating this within the larger field of publishing are examined to further ground ukiyo-e as material culture, as commodities in a mercantile economy. Picturing the Floating World offers a new approach: a critical yet accessible analysis of the genre as it was developed in its social, cultural, and political milieu. The book introduces students, collectors, and enthusiasts to ukiyo-e as a genre under construction in its own time while contributing to our understanding of early modern visual production.
Author: Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter
Publisher: Assouline Books & Gifts
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Asian Art guides the reader through Asia's profusion of religions and languages, deciphering the most characteristic works of its three major civilizations, India, China and Japan. Marking the reopening this year of the redesigned Musée Guimet in Paris, and in response to the constantly increasing enthusiasm for the arts of Asia, Asian Art is both an instructive guide and a sumptuously illustrated art book.
Author: Masako Watanabe
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394409
Category : Emaki Jōruri (Scrolls)
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Presents 17 classic Japanese stories as told through 30 illustrated handscrolls ranging from the 13th to 19th centuries.
Author: William Green
Publisher: Brill Hotei
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The ultimate research tool for the study of Japanese prints, this publication represents eight years of research by the author William Green. It lists over 6000 publications dating from 1822 to 1993, concentrating on those in English. In addition, the inclusion of newspaper and periodical reviews of the most important books and catalogs enables the academic debate concerning Japanese prints to be followed. This book is divided along thematic lines into 15 chapters and also contains three indexes, making it an easy-to-use reference work for students, scholars and collectors alike.
Author: Donald Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: John T. Carpenter
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394719
Category : Art, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Exhibition of paintings, lacquerwork, ceramics, textiles, calligraphy, and other media all in the Rinpa style from 1600 to the present day.
Author: Nobuo Sakai
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color prints, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Author: Hajime Ouchi
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486318990
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Some of the most ingenious and attractive modern motifs. 746 designs.
Author: Penelope E. Mason
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780131176010
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Japanese art, like so many expressions of Japanese culture, is fascinatingly rich in its contrasts and paradoxes. Since the country opened its doors to the outside world in the mid-nineteenth century. Japanese art and culture have enjoyed an immense popularity in the West. When in 1993 renowned scholar Penelope Mason wrote the the first edition of History of Japanese Art, it was the first such volume in thirty yearsto chart a detailed overview of the subject. It remains the only comprehensive survey of its kind in English. This second edition ties together more closely the development of all the media within a well-articulated historical and social context. New to the Second Edition Extended coverage of Japanese art beyond 1945 New discoveries both in archeology and scholarship New material on calligraphy, ceramics, lacquerware, metalware, and textiles An extended glossary A comprehensively updated bibliography 94 new illustrations
Author: Gankow Sakai
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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