The Artist in Edo Studies in the History of Art, vol. 80 Yukio Lippit, Louise Allison Cort, Tamamushi Satoko, Emura Tomoko, Kono Motoaki, Timon Screech, Kishi Fumikazi, Julie Nelson Davis, Sato Yasuhiro, Matthew McKelway, Chelsea Foxwell, T. J. Clark

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Series:: Studies in the History of Art Series
Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 28 Aug 2018
ISBN:: 9780300214673
Imprint:: NGW-Stud Hist Art
Dimensions:: 304 pages: 279 x 229mm
Illustrations:: 204 color + 40 b-w illus.
Sales territories:: World

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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 Itō Jakuchū'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 Jakuchū’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.

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.