The Lippit, Yukio 1970- editor. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.) National Gallery of Art (U.S.) publisher. Yale University Press distributor. text bibliography conference publication Conference papers and proceedings. dcu Washington New Haven London National Gallery of Art Distributed by Yale University Press ©2018 2018 2012 monographic eng

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viii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm During the early modern period in Japan, peace and prosperity allowed elite and popular arts and culture to flourish in Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. The historic first showing outside Japan of Itō Jakuchū's thirty-scroll series titled Colorful Realm of Living Beings (c. 1757-1766) in 2012 prompted a reimagining of artists and art making in this context. These essays call attention to Jakuchū's spectacular series as well as to works by a range of contemporary artists. Selected contributions address issues of professional roles, including copying and imitation, display and memorialization, and makers' identities. Some explore the new form of painting, ukiyo-e, in the context of the urban society that provided its subject matter and audiences; others discuss the spectrum of amateur and professional Edo pottery and interrelationships between painting and other media. Together, they reveal the fluidity and dynamism of artists' identities during a time of great significance in the country's history.--Provided by publisher. edited by Yukio Lippit. "This volume was produced by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the Publishing Office, National Gallery of Art, Washington"--Colophon. "Proceedings of the symposium "The Artist in Edo," organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and sponsored by the Anne van Biema Endowment Fund, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the Japan Foundation, and the Starr Foundation. The symposium was held April 13-14, 2012, in Washington"--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references and index. AAL a-ja--- Art, Japanese Edo period, 1600-1868 Congresses Art and society Japan History Congresses Ukiyoe Congresses Japan Social life and customs 1600-1868 Congresses N7353.5 .A785 2018 759.952 SI 8.2:ED 6 SI 8.2:ED 6 9780300214673 0300214677 2017055984 Ayesha Abed Library DGPO/DLC 260606 20260606152120.0 45826 eng