Beyond the Great Wave: The Japanese Landscape Print, 1727-1960The Japanese landscape print has had a tremendous influence on Western art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Japan and in the West it is often seen as the dominant form in Ukiyo-e, pictures from the floating world. And yet for all its importance, it is a genre whose history has never been written. Beyond The Great Wave is a survey or overview for all those interested in discovering the inner dynamics of one of art history's most remarkable achievements. However, it is also a quest narrative, in which landscapes and notions of Japan as a homeland are intertwined and interconnected. Although there has never been a book-length study of the Japanese landscape print in either Japanese or English, a great deal has been written about the two giants of the genre, Hokusai and Hiroshige. From what traditions did these two nineteenth-century artists emerge? Who were their predecessors? What influence, if any, did they have on other Ukiyo-e artists? Can their influence be seen in the shin-hanga and sôsaku-hanga artists of the twentieth century? This book addresses these issues, but it also looks at a number of other factors, such as the growth of tourism in nineteenth-century Japan, necessary for understanding this genre. |
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Contents
Chinese Abstraction Japanese Reality | 13 |
Ukiyoe Landscape Prints 17271830 | 39 |
Hokusai the Perfect Artist | 62 |
Hiroshige the Perfect | 83 |
Poetical Landscapes Meiji Illuminations | 110 |
Shinhanga | 129 |
Sosakuhanga | 165 |
Endnotes | 193 |
Glossary | 203 |
| 213 | |
Acknowledgements | 221 |
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| Title | Beyond the Great Wave: The Japanese Landscape Print, 1727-1960 Beyond the Great Wave: The Japanese Landscape Print, 1727-1960, James King Volume 2 of Natur, Wissenschaft und die Kunste/ Nature, Science et les Arts/ Nature, Science and the Arts Volume 2 of Natur, Wissenschaft und die Künste Volume 2 of Nature, Science and the Arts, Wissenschaft und die Künste / Nature Natur (Science et les Arts) |
| Author | James King |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Peter Lang, 2010 |
| ISBN | 3034303173, 9783034303170 |
| Length | 232 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / Asian / General |
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