Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art

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BRILL, Feb 20, 2014 - Art - 374 pages
Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art offers a comparative art and socio-historical analysis of selected images of familial intimacy in Asia and Europe from the pre-modern era to the present day based on an examination of the value systems and expectations existing at the time in the regions in which the works were created.

A wide variety of images are discussed ranging from family portraits and depictions of the home in seventeenth-century Dutch genre paintings, ukiyoe prints and fusuma sliding wall panels of the Edo period, to familial images made after the Korean War of 1950-53, providing the reader with a rare insight into the evolution East and West of the cultural norms and customs impacting on the family and personal space.

 

Contents

1 An Introduction to Interpreting Images of Family Mother and Child and the Home
1
2 Faith Family and Politics in Lucas Cranach the Elders Holy Kinship Altarpiece
54
3 Domestic Bliss? Images of the Family and Home in SeventeenthCentury Dutch Genre Art
83
The Childrens Portrait in Netherlandish Art and Its Influence
108
Scene Selection in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
132
Images of Chinese Children at Play
185
Focusing on Edo Period Family Actions
218
Public Messages Concealed in Private Depictions
249
The Family as a Metaphor for Repose
287
Bibliography
313
Photo Credits and Sources
345
Index
347
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Nakamura Toshiharu, Ph.D. (2005), Kyoto University, is Professor of Art History at that university. He has published monographs and many articles on Dutch and Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century, including "Peter Paul Rubens: Between Art and Politics" (Sangensha, 2006).

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