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The artist in Edo

Lippit, Yukio, 1970- editor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.), National Gallery of Art (U.S.), publisher, Yale University Press, distributor

Overview

During the early modern period in Japan, peace and prosperity allowed elite and popular arts and culture to flourish in Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. The historic first showing outside Japan of Itهo Jakuchهu's thirty-scroll series titled Colorful Realm of Living Beings (c. 1757-1766) in 2012 prompted a reimagining of artists and art making in this context. These essays call attention to Jakuchهu's spectacular series as well as to works by a range of contemporary artists. Selected contributions address issues of professional roles, including copying and imitation, display and memorialization, and makers' identities. Some explore the new form of painting, ukiyo-e, in the context of the urban society that provided its subject matter and audiences; others discuss the spectrum of amateur and professional Edo pottery and interrelationships between painting and other media. Together, they reveal the fluidity and dynamism of artists' identities during a time of great significance in the country's history.--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: National Gallery of Art,Distributed by Yale University Press
• Subject: Art, Japanese Edo period, 1600-1868 Congresses. / Art and society Japan History Congresses. / Ukiyoe Congresses. / Japan Social life and customs 1600-1868 Congresses.
• ISBN: 9780300214673, 0300214677

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N7353.5.A785 2018	1	BOOK	ARTS