Designed for pleasure : the world of Edo Japan in prints and paintings, 1680-1860
著者
書誌事項
Designed for pleasure : the world of Edo Japan in prints and paintings, 1680-1860
Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America in association with University of Washington Press, c2008
1st ed
- : pbk
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注記
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Feb. 27-May 4, 2008, Asia Society and Museum, New York, New York
Includes bibliographical references and index
収録内容
- A Mirror on the Floating World / Donald Jenkins
- Hishikawa Moronobu: tracking down an elusive master / David Waterhouse
- The original source (accept no substitutes!): Okumura Masanobu / Sarah E. Thompson
- Suzuki Harunobu: the cult and culture of color / Allen Hockley
- Katsukawa Shunshö: Ukiyo-e paintings for the samurai elite / Timothy Clark
- Tsutaya Jüzaburö: master publisher / Julie Nelson Davis
- The literary network: private commissions for Hokusai and his circle / John T. Carpenter
- Designed for pleasure: Ukiyo-e as material culture / David Pollack
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Designed for Pleasure brings together paintings, prints, and illustrated books featuring images known as ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world. The carefully selected images present the principals of that realm - the actor, the artist, the courtesan, the poet, the publisher, the patron - and they also reveal the confluences and contradictions in a time of enormous social, cultural, and economic change in Japan.This book examines the floating world of popular culture centered in Edo [modern Tokyo] during the period between 1680 and 1860, when Japan transformed itself from an agrarian to a booming commercial economy. By 1710, Edo was the largest city in the world, with a population of over a million. We know so much about this time in part because of the vast body of imagery created and treasured by succeeding generations. The artists and writers held a looking glass up to their heady world and, in the process, to themselves. Fads and fashions proliferated, and this highly literate, consumer-driven society insisted on being up to date. Innovative color printing techniques fed the demand for ever-new information.Print publishers, mindful of a business opportunity, also responded to the clamor for representations of the public's cherished heroes.
Their stables of artists not only produced mass-market prints and books, but used their connections in the literary salons of the day to secure commissions from the wealthy and elite for luxury paintings and printed works.Building on the existing body of ukiyo-e scholarship, a team of renowned experts presents a new perspective and an expanded view of the visual culture of Edo Japan and the way in which art became more accessible to a new class beyond the ruling elite. The volume authors showcase individuals - adding to the already substantial scholarship on Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Utamaro - including the father of ukiyo-e, Hishikawa Moronobu; the artist and publisher Okumura Masanobu; the color innovator Suzuki Harunobu; the master publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo; and the brilliant painter Katsukawa Shunsho. Rather than focus on one artist, one school, or one artistic medium, Designed for Pleasure presents the best of ukiyo-e, in their three primary manifestations: paintings, prints, and illustrated books.
目次
Lenders to the ExhibitionPreface from Asia Society / Vishakha DesaiForeword from Asia Society / Melissa ChiuForeword from Japanese Art Society of America / Allison TolmanNotes to the Reader A Mirror on the Floating World / Donald Jenkins Hishikawa Moronobu: Tracking Down an Elusive Master / David Waterhouse The Original Source (Accept No Substitutes!): Okumura Masanobu / Sarah E. Thompson Suzuki Harunobu: The Cult and Culture of Color / Allen Hockley Katsukawa Shunsho: Ukyo-e Paintings for the Samurai Elite / Timothy Clark Tsutaya Juzaburo: Master Publishers / Julie Nelson Davis The Literary Network: Private Commissions for Hokusai and His Circle / John T. Carpenter Designed for Pleasure: Ukiyo-e as Material Culture / David Pollack Works in the ExhibitionJapanese ChecklistIndexPhotography Credits
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