Ukiyoe kara shashin e : shikaku no bunmei kaika = From ukiyo-e to photography : cultural awakening in Japan's visual field / hencho Tōkyōto Edo Tōkyō Hakubutsukan, Okatsuka Akiko, Wagatsuma Naomi.
浮世絵から写真へ : 視覚の文明開化 = From ukiyo-e to photography : cultural awakening in Japan's visual field 編著東京都江戶東京博物館, 岡塚章子, 我妻直美.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Okatsuka, Akiko.

Wagatsuma, Naomi.

Edo Tōkyō Hakubutsukan.

Okatsuka, Akiko

Wagatsuma, Naomi

江戶東京博物館.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Photography.

History.

Japan.

Art, Japanese--19th century.

Art, Japanese.

Art, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868.

Art, Japanese--Edo period.

Art, Japanese--Meiji period, 1868-1912.

Art, Japanese--Meiji period.

Art, Modern--19th century.

Art, Modern.

Photography--Japan--19th century.

Photography--Japan--History--19th century.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

197 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

From ukiyo-e to photography : cultural awakening in Japan's visual field

Place of Publication:

Kyōto : Seigensha, 2015.

京都 : 青幻舎, 2015.

Language Note:

Japanese and English.

Contents:

Prologue

Part 1. Two worlds apart: Traditional visual arts in Japan and photographs from abroad

Scenes of Edo and human figures

the advent of the photograph

Part 2. The encounter between picture and photograph

Photographs in painting

Capturing famous places

Capturing the human figure

One hundred beauties

The world of collected antiquities

Part 3. Mud pictures, glass pictures and 'oil photography': Oddities of the period

The idolization of Western painting

The invention of 'oil photography'

Patented 'oil photography'

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes chronology (pages 183-185) and index of images.

Catalog of an exhibition held 10 October to 6 December 2015 at Edo-Tokyo Museum.

ISBN:

9784861525131

4861525136

OCLC:

926666027