Format:
1 Online-Ressource (280 p)
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2 tables, 70 illustrations, 1 map
Edition:
Original Printing
ISBN:
9781503619821
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor’s Note -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Tori-busshi and the Production of Buddhist Icons in Asuka-Period Japan -- 3 E’nichibō Jōnin, the Saint’s Companion -- 4 Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: Tosa Mitsunobu (1434–ca. 1523) and the Afterlife of a Name -- 5 A Tosa Potter in Edo -- 6 Artistic Identity and Ukiyo-e Prints: The Representation of Kitagawa Utamaro to the Edo Public -- 7 Takamura Kōun and Takamura Kōtarō: On Being a Sculptor -- 8 The Formation of a Japanese Architectural Profession -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Frequently Cited -- Index
Content:
Through individual case studies involving the professions of sculptor, painter, potter, printmaker, and architect, this book addresses the question about what it meant to be an artist in Japan from the seventh century to the twentieth. How did artists go about their business? What degree of control did they exercise over their metier? How were they viewed by society? How was the image of the artist fashioned in various periods? Throughout much of Japan’s past, artists’ thoughts about their activities have remained unrecorded. Some of the essays in this volume reveal how the machine of political discourse worked to invent different views of the same artist over time. Others explore cases of later artists manipulating the names of earlier ones for professional or cultural gain, while still other essays reconstruct some of the forces brought to bear on artistic reception by the makers' contemporaries. The activities of artists whose stories are told here required the collaboration of numerous skilled colleagues, often deployed in the hierarchical structure of the hereditary workshop; they had to fight hard to gain social and economic recognition. 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? Contributors include Karen L. Brock, Louise Allison Cort, Julie Nelson Davis, Christine M. E. Guth, Donald F. McCallum, Jonathan M. Reynolds, and Melinda Takeuchi
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804743556
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The artist as professional in Japan Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press, 2004 ISBN 080474355X
Language:
English
Keywords:
Japan
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Beruf
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Künstler
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Geschichte 600-2000
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Japan
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Künstler
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Soziale Wirklichkeit
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Geschichte 600-2000
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9781503619821
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