Utamaro

Author : Julie Nelson Davis
Publisher : Julie Nelson Davis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015073871298

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Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty by Julie Nelson Davis Pdf

One of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") in late-eighteenth-century Japan, Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?–1806) was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women. In images showing courtesans, geisha, housewives, and others, Utamaro made the practice of distinguishing social types into a connoisseurial art. In 1804, at the height of his success, Utamaro, along with several colleagues, was manacled and put under house arrest for fifty days for making prints of the military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi enjoying the pleasures of the "floating world." The event put into stark relief the challenge that popular representation posed to political authority and, according to some sources, may have precipitated Utamaro’s sudden decline. In this book Julie Nelson Davis makes a close study of selected print sets, and by drawing on a wide range of period sources reinterprets Utamaro in the context of his times. Reconstructing the place of the ukiyo-e artist within the world of the commercial print market, she demonstrates how Utamaro’s images participated in the economies of entertainment and desire in the city of Edo (modern-day Tokyo). Offering a new approach to issues of the status of the artist and the construction of identity, gender, sexuality, and celebrity in the Edo period, Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty is a significant contribution to the field and a key work for readers interested in Japanese art and culture.

Author : Edmond de Goncourt
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780429281

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Utamaro by Edmond de Goncourt Pdf

If sensuality had a name, it would be without doubt Utamaro. Delicately underlining the Garden of Pleasures that once constituted Edo, Utamaro, by the richness of his fabrics, the swan-like necks of the women, the mysterious looks, evokes in a few lines the sensual pleasure of the Orient. If some scenes discreetly betray lovers’ games, a great number of his shungas recall that love in Japan is first and foremost erotic.

Author : Melinda Takeuchi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 080474355X

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The Artist as Professional in Japan by Melinda Takeuchi Pdf

"The book also addresses issues of canon formation: by what complex process are some artists and objects singled out to communicate rhetorical or aesthetic meaning while others lapse into the background."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : 小林忠
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 4770027303

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Utamaro by 小林忠 Pdf

This volume presents the work of Utamaro, the master ukiyo-e portraitist of women. It includes colour reproductions from Ten Studies of Female Physiognomy' and 'Great Love Themes of Classical Poetry'. Who was the man behind the pseudonym 'Utamaro'? We know that he was one of the greatest artists of eighteenth-century Japan, and that he was a master portraitist of women in the woodblock-print tradition known as ukiyo-e. But as for the man himself, we know almost nothing. The little there is-gleaned from contemporary books, miscellaneous writings, temple registers-is'

Author : Utamaro Kitagawa
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780870993688

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画本虫撰 by Utamaro Kitagawa Pdf

Author : Elvehjem Museum of Art
Publisher : Chazen Museum of Art
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 0932900240

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The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints by Elvehjem Museum of Art Pdf

The Van Vleck collection of Japanese woodblock prints is one of the Elvehjem Museum of Art's (now the Chazen Museum of Art) most important collections of more than 3700 prints collected by Van Vleck between 1910 and 1943, including the prints that Frank Lloyd Wright collected in Japan in the 1920s. This copiously illustrated catalog is the culmination of several years of intensive study and documentation, and is the first step in making this impressive collection accessible to museum visitors and scholars. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Author : Angela Dalle Vacche
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0292715838

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Cinema and Painting by Angela Dalle Vacche Pdf

The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning of their films. In this discerning new approach to cinema studies, Angela Dalle Vacche discusses how the use of pictorial sources in film enables eight filmmakers to comment on the interplay between the arts, on the dialectic of word and image, on the relationship between artistic creativity and sexual difference, and on the tension between tradition and modernity. Specifically, Dalle Vacche explores Jean-Luc Godard's iconophobia (Pierrot Le Fou) and Andrei Tarkovsky's iconophilia (Andrei Rubleov), Kenji Mizoguchi's split allegiances between East and West (Five Women around Utamaro), Michelangelo Antonioni's melodramatic sensibility (Red Desert), Eric Rohmer's project to convey interiority through images (The Marquise of O), F. W. Murnau's debt to Romantic landscape painting (Nosferatu), Vincente Minnelli's affinities with American Abstract Expressionism (An American in Paris), and Alain Cavalier's use of still life and the close-up to explore the realms of mysticism and femininity (Thérèse). While addressing issues of influence and intentionality, Dalle Vacche concludes that intertextuality is central to an appreciation of the dialogical nature of the filmic medium, which, in appropriating or rejecting art history, defines itself in relation to national traditions and broadly shared visual cultures.

Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1984-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0824808738

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The Floating World, rev. ed. by James A. Michener Pdf

The Floating World by novelist James A. Michener is a classic work on the Japanese print of the Edo period (1615-1868). Mr. Michener shows how the Japanese printmakers, cut off from revivifying contacts with the art of the rest of the world and hampered by their own governmental restrictions, were able to keep their art vital for two centuries through their vigor and determination. For this new edition, Howard A. Link updates the scholarship and expands on many theoretical aspects introduced in Michener's study.

Author : Gina Collia-Suzuki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Ukiyoe
ISBN : 0955979609

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Utamaro Revealed by Gina Collia-Suzuki Pdf

Kitagawa Utamaro is one of the most well-known figures in the history of Japanese art, renowned for his portraits of beautiful women. He is recognised as having been the leading light of the Ukiyo-e School during its golden age, and his influence upon the work of Western artists has been beyond measure. He produced in the region of 2,000 woodblock prints, approximately one third of which take their subjects from the licensed pleasure quarter of Edo, with the remainder being made up of images of popular beauties, pairs of famous lovers, historical and mythical figures, domestic scenes, and the physiognomic studies for which he is best-known. With 90 reproductions of the artist s prints, designs grouped and discussed according to subject, and with illustrations of publishers marks, artist s signatures, and the names of figures commonly inscribed upon his works, this reference guide provides the most comprehensive resource for identifying the subjects portrayed in Utamaro s prints to date."

Author : Rijksmuseum (Netherlands). Rijksprentenkabinet,Charlotte van Rappard-Boon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Color prints
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032584182

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The Age of Utamaro by Rijksmuseum (Netherlands). Rijksprentenkabinet,Charlotte van Rappard-Boon Pdf

Author : Gina Collia-Suzuki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0955979633

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The Complete Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro by Gina Collia-Suzuki Pdf

In Reading Duncan Reading, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety of influence writers experience as they grapple with the burden of being original, but for Duncan this was another matter altogether. Indeed, according to Stephen Collis, "No other poet has so openly expressed his admiration for and gratitude toward his predecessors." Part one emphasizes Duncan's acts of reading, tracing a variety of his derivations--including Sarah Ehlers's demonstration of how Milton shaped Duncan's early poetic aspirations, Siobhán Scarry's unveiling of the many sources (including translation and correspondence) drawn into a single Duncan poem, and Clément Oudart's exploration of Duncan's use of "foreign words" to fashion "a language to which no one is native." In part two, the volume turns to examinations of poets who can be seen to in some way derive from Duncan--and so in turn reveals another angle of Duncan's derivative poetics. J. P. Craig traces Nathaniel MacKey's use of Duncan's "would-be shaman," Catherine Martin sees Duncan's influence in Susan Howe's "development of a poetics where the twin concepts of trespass and 'permission' hold comparable sway," and Ross Hair explores poet Ronald Johnson's "reading to steal." These and other essays collected here trace paths of poetic affiliation and affinity and hold them up as provocative possibilities in Duncan's own inexhaustible work.

Author : Julie Nelson Davis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824854409

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Partners in Print by Julie Nelson Davis Pdf

This compelling account of collaboration in the genre of ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) offers a new approach to understanding the production and reception of print culture in early modern Japan. It provides a corrective to the perception that the ukiyo-e tradition was the product of the creative talents of individual artists, revealing instead the many identities that made and disseminated printed work. Julie Nelson Davis demonstrates by way of examples from the later eighteenth century that this popular genre was the result of an exchange among publishers, designers, writers, carvers, printers, patrons, buyers, and readers. By recasting these works as examples of a network of commercial and artistic cooperation, she offers a nuanced view of the complexity of this tradition and expands our understanding of the dynamic processes of production, reception, and intention in floating world print culture. Four case studies give evidence of what constituted modes of collaboration among artistic producers in the period. In each case Davis explores a different configuration of collaboration: that between a teacher and a student, two painters and their publishers, a designer and a publisher, and a writer and an illustrator. Each investigates a mode of partnership through a single work: a specially commissioned print, a lavishly illustrated album, a printed handscroll, and an inexpensive illustrated novel. These case studies explore the diversity of printed things in the period ranging from expensive works made for a select circle of connoisseurs to those meant to be sold at a modest price to a large audience. They take up familiar subjects from the floating world—connoisseurship, beauty, sex, and humor—and explore multiple dimensions of inquiry vital to that dynamic culture: the status of art, the evaluation of beauty, the representation of sexuality, and the tension between mind and body. Where earlier studies of woodblock prints have tended to focus on the individual artist, Partners in Print takes the subject a major step forward to a richer picture of the creative process. Placing these works in their period context not only reveals an aesthetic network responsive to and shaped by the desires of consumers in a specific place and time, but also contributes to a larger discussion about the role of art and the place of the material text in the early modern world.

Author : Nancy Mowll Mathews
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300164882

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Mary Cassatt by Nancy Mowll Mathews Pdf

One of the few women Impressionists, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) had a life of paradoxes: American born, she lived and worked in France; a classically trained artist, she preferred the company of radicals; never married, she painted exquisite and beloved portraits of mothers and children. This book provides new insight into the personal life and artistic endeavors of this extraordinary woman. "Brilliant, lively life of long lived American Impressionist."--Kirkus Reviews "Rich in historical and archeological detail, thoroughgoing in its resurrection of the contexts and conditions of Cassatt's life as an artist."--Carol Armstrong, New York Times Book Review "Mathews informatively and entertainingly documents Cassatt's tumultuous relations with various members of both the American and Parisian avant-garde. . . . An impressive biography."--Siri Huntoon, New York Newsday "A superb piece of scholarship."--Ruth Johnstone Wales, Christian Science Monitor "In this admirable biography, art historian Mathews . . . presents a compelling portrait of this contradictory woman."--Publishers Weekly "Authoritative, unsentimental, clear as a bell, this is a model of the new biography by and about talented women."--Kennedy Fraser "This will probably be the definitive biography for our generation."--John Wilmerding, Princeton University

Author : Arthur Davison Ficke
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547042044

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Chats on Japanese Prints by Arthur Davison Ficke Pdf

Arthur Davison Ficke is a poet who, in his brilliant poem writing, conveys his messages through the work of art. "Chats on Japanese Prints" is a book that appreciates some of the awesome Japanese prints and artworks of the past century. This book is centered on poem and artistry.

Author : David Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134277858

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Chushingura and the Floating World by David Bell Pdf

Kanadehon Chushingura has been one of the most popular bunraku and kabuki plays. This fascinating study explores the full spectrum of ukiyo-e (floating world) representations of the Chushingura story. Essential reading for all students of Japanese theatre, the history of Japanese art and the social history of Japan.