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Aesthetic strategies of the floating world : mitate, yatsushi, and fūryū in early modern Japanese popular culture / by Alfred Haft.
Fine Arts Library N7353.6.U35 H34 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haft, Alfred.
- Series:
- Japanese visual culture ; v. 9.
- Japanese visual culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ukiyoe--Political aspects--Edo period, 1600-1868.
- Ukiyoe.
- Erotic art--Japan--Edo period, 1600-1868.
- Erotic art.
- Prints, Japanese.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Japan--Social life and customs--Edo period, 1600-1868--Pictorial works.
- Japan.
- Manners and customs.
- Popular culture--Japan--History--18th century.
- Popular culture--Japan--History--19th century.
- Prints, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 216 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, 2013.
- Summary:
- The East Asian classical tradition, with its repertoire of ancient narratives and established pictorial themes, was a major force driving cultural development in Japan during the early modern or Edo period (1615-1868). This book offers an in-depth account of three aesthetic concepts - mitate, yatsushi, and fūryū - which influenced the way early-modern popular culture absorbed and responded to this force of cultural tradition. Combining literary, historical, and visual evidence, the book examines particularly how the three concepts guided artistic choices in the context of Floating World prints (ukiyo-e), and how the concepts have shaped the direction of ukiyo-e studies since the Meiji period (1868-1912).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004209879
- 9004209875
- OCLC:
- 824565273
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