Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western ArtImages 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 |
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