The Artist in EDO: Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 80

by Yukio Lippit

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 (ca. 1757-66) in 2012 prompted a reimagining of artists and art making in this context. These essays give attention to Jakuchū's spectacular series as well as to works...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300214677
• ISBN13: 9780300214673
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Ngw-Stud Hist Art
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.3" x 11.3"