International Symposium on Chinese Ceramics : Seattle Art Museum, Volunteer Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., July 24 through July 28, 1977 in conjunction with the museum's exhibition, "Chinese ceramics from Japanese collections, T'ang through Ming dynasties"
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International Symposium on Chinese Ceramics : Seattle Art Museum, Volunteer Park, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., July 24 through July 28, 1977 in conjunction with the museum's exhibition, "Chinese ceramics from Japanese collections, T'ang through Ming dynasties"
Seattle Art Museum, c1981
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中国陶资
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  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
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  Gifu
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  Aichi
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
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  Shimane
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  Hiroshima
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"The symposium was organized by the Seattle Art Museum and was supported by the Agency for Cultural Affirs (Bunka-cho), Tokyo, the Japan Foundation, Tokyo, and by grants from the Nationala endowment for the Arts in Washington D.C. ..."
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Description
Both the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges to the status quo from the rising middle class. In Edo (present-day Tokyo), townspeople pursued hedonistic lifestyles as a way of defying the state-sanctioned social hierarchy that positioned them at the bottom. Their new pastimes supplied subject matter for ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world). Many such pictures arrived in France in the 1860s, a time when French art and society were undergoing substantial changes. Fin-de-siecle Paris, like Edo before it, saw the rise of antiestablishment attitudes and a Bohemian subculture. As artists searched for fresh and more expressive forms, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) and his contemporaries were drawn to novel Japanese prints.
While ukiyo-e's formal influences on Toulouse-Lautrec and his peers have been well studied, the shared subversive hedonism that underlies these artworks has been less examined. Through a wide selection of Japanese prints and Toulouse-Lautrec works, this book offers a critical look at the renegade spirit inhabiting the graphic arts in both Edo and Paris, highlighting the social impulses behind a burgeoning art production.
Exhibition dates: Seattle Asian Art Museum, July 21-December 3, 2023
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