Copying the master and stealing his secrets : talent and training in Japanese painting / edited by Brenda G. Jordan and Victoria Weston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jordan, Brenda G.

Weston, Victoria Louise.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kanō School.

Painting, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1858.

Painting, Japanese.

Painting--Study and teaching--Japan--History.

Painting.

Painting--Study and teaching.

History.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xxii, 248 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2003]

Summary:

Copying the Master examines the transmission of painting traditions in Japan from one generation to the next. The contributors emphasize the relationship between inborn abilities and those skills taught in the course of learning how to paint. They focus their discussion on a group of painting masters loosely associated with the prestigious Kano painting atelier, Japan's de facto painting academy throughout the Tokugawa period (1615-1868) and into the early modern era. By delving into why, how, and what these painters transmitted to students through their teaching, readers gain insight into artistic or aesthetic sensibilities active in Japanese painting and a fuller appreciation of extant paintings within their cultural and historical contexts.

Contents:

An afterword posing as a foreword: some comparative and miscellaneous thoughts on talent and training / J. Thomas Rimer

Talent, training and power: the Kano painting workshop in the seventeenth century / Karen M. Gerhart

Copying from beginning to end? Student life in the Kano school / Brenda G. Jordan

In the studio of painting study: transmission practices of Tani Bunchō / Frank Chance

Kawanabe Kyōsai's theory and pedagogy: the preeminence of Shasei / Brenda G. Jordan

Okuhara Seiko: a case of Funpon training in late Edo literati painting / Martha J. McClintock and Victoria Weston

Institutionalizing talent and the Kano legacy at the Tokyo school of fine arts, 1889-1893 / Victoria Weston

Epilogue: from technique to art / Brenda G. Jordan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.

ISBN:

0824826086

OCLC:

49679640