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Release Year
2021
Book Title
Picturing the Floating World: Ukiyo-e in Context
ISBN
9780824889210
Subject Area
Art
Publication Name
Picturing the Floating World : Ukiyo-E in Context
Item Length
8.2 in
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Subject
Asian / Japanese, Prints, History / General
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.5 in
Author
Julie Nelson Davis
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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Today we think of ukiyo-e--"the pictures of the floating world"--as masterpieces of Japanese art, highly prized throughout the world. Yet it is often said that ukiyo-e were little appreciated in their own time and were even used as packing material for ceramics. In Picturing the Floating World, Julie Nelson Davis debunks this myth and demonstrates that ukiyo-e was thoroughly appreciated as a field of artistic production, worthy of connoisseurship and canonization by its contemporaries. Putting these images back into their dynamic context, she shows how consumers, critics, and makers produced and sold, appraised and collected, and described and recorded ukiyo-e. She recovers this multilayered world of pictures in which some were made for a commercial market, backed by savvy entrepreneurs looking for new ways to make a profit, while others were produced for private coteries and high-ranking connoisseurs seeking to enrich their cultural capital. The book opens with an analysis of period documents to establish the terms of appraisal brought to ukiyo-e in late eighteenth-century Japan, mapping the evolution of the genre from a century earlier and the development of its typologies and the creation of a canon of makers--both of which have defined the field ever since. Organized around divisions of major technological and aesthetic developments, the book reveals how artistic practice and commercial enterprise were intertwined throughout ukiyo-e's history, from its earliest imagery through the twentieth century. The depiction of particular subjects in and for the floating world of urban Edo and the process of negotiating this within the larger field of publishing are examined to further ground ukiyo-e as material culture, as commodities in a mercantile economy. Picturing the Floating World offers a new approach: a critical yet accessible analysis of the genre as it was developed in its social, cultural, and political milieu. The book introduces students, collectors, and enthusiasts to ukiyo-e as a genre under construction in its own time while contributing to our understanding of early modern visual production.

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Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
ISBN-10
0824889215
ISBN-13
9780824889210
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26050083723

Product Key Features

Author
Julie Nelson Davis
Publication Name
Picturing the Floating World : Ukiyo-E in Context
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Asian / Japanese, Prints, History / General
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

LCCN
2020-048218
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Ne1321.8.D38 2021
Reviews
Picturing the Floating World is at once accessible, critical, and informative. It builds both on the latest scholarship in the field and on period writings and in so doing offers a fresh, authoritative take on the subject. There are many general books on ukiyo-e, but the coverage, organization, length, and choice of illustrations make this an excellent historical introduction for students and print enthusiasts alike., In recent years, much scholarship has focused on understanding the mechanics of ukiyo-e production and sales, and Julie Davis skillfully incorporates these 'discoveries' in her work to provide fuller contexts for the prints and print studios. Her book also includes the latest conclusions of Japanese, European, and American scholars and a useful bibliography, making it a valuable textbook for students and resource for anyone interested in Japanese prints., In demonstrating the importance of the ukiyo-e, Davis takes into consideration the significance of printed books and paintings and their roles in the "floating world." Most works Davis discusses were made during the Tokugawa period (1603-1868). Another major focus is the city of Edo, which experienced an explosive rise as a mercantile hub and soon became the epicenter for printmaking. The book closes with an epilogue, "Evoking the Floating World," that carries the print genre into the Meiji restoration of 1868. Including scholarly notes and a valuable bibliography, this book will delight anyone interested in Japanese culture. Essential.
Copyright Date
2021
Dewey Decimal
709.52
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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