Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters of Eighteenth-Century Kyoto

by Matthew Philip McKelway, Yoko Woodson, Moriya Katsuhisa

Traditions Unbound focuses on the work of eight innovative painters who broke new ground in Japanese art. Released from the repressive constraints of the shogunate in Edo and inspired by a new merchant market, they created sometimes radical work that expressed the new freedom enjoyed in the thriving eighteenth-century arts scene of Kyoto. The artists are Watanabe Shiko, Yosa Buson, Matsumura Gekkei (Goshun), Ike Taiga, Maruyama Okyo, Nagasawa...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939117320
• ISBN13: 9780939117321
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 12.0"