The Artist in Edo
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Studies in the History of Art, vol. 80
Edited by Yukio Lippit; With contributions by Louise Allison Cort, Tamamushi Satoko, Emura Tomoko, Kono Motoaki, Timon Screech, Kishi Fumikazi, Julie Nelson Davis, Sato Yasuhiro, Matthew P. McKelway, Chelsea Foxwell, and Timothy Clark
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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 Ito Jakuchu's thirty-scroll series titled Colorful Realm of Living Beings (ca. 1757–66) in 2012 prompted a reimagining of artists and art making in this context. These essays give attention to Jakuchu’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.
Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts/Distributed by Yale University Press
Yukio Lippit is professor of history of art and architecture and Johnson-Kulukundis Family Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
"This wide-ranging yet comprehensive study of the Edo period is an invaluable addition to the literature on the arts and culture of Japan."—S. C. Scott, Choice
Selected for Choice's 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles List
ISBN: 9780300214673
Publication Date: July 17, 2018
Publishing Partner: Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts/Distributed by Yale University Press
Publication Date: July 17, 2018
Publishing Partner: Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts/Distributed by Yale University Press
304 pages, 9 x 11
204 color + 40 b/w illus.
204 color + 40 b/w illus.
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