Title & Author:

The artist as professional in Japan / edited by Melinda Takeuchi.

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2004.

Description:

xvi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index.
Introduction / Melinda Takeuchi -- Tori-busshi and the production of Buddhist icons in Asuka-period Japan / Donald F. McCallum -- E'nichibō Jōnin, the saint's companion / Karen L. Brock -- Signed, sealed, and delivered: Tosa Mitsunobu (1434-ca. 1523) and the afterlife of a name / Melinda Takeuchi -- A Tosa potter in Edo / Louise Allison Cort -- Artistic identity and Ukiyo-e prints: the representation of Kitagawa Utamaro to the Edo public / Julie Nelson Davis -- Takamura Kōun and Takamura Kōtarō: on being a sculptor / Christine M.E. Guth -- The formation of a Japanese architectural profession / Jonathan M. Reynolds.

Summary:

"Through individual case studies involving the professions of sculptor, painter, potter, printmaker, and architect, this book addresses the question about what it meant to be an artist in Japan from the seventh century to the twentieth." "Some of the essays in this volume reveal how the machine of political discourse worked to invent different views of the same artist over time. Others explore cases of later artists manipulating the names of earlier ones for professional or cultural gain, while still other essays reconstruct some of the forces brought to bear on artistic reception by the makers' contemporaries."
"The book also addresses issues of canon formation: by what complex process are some artists and objects singled out to communicate rhetorical or aesthetic meaning while others lapse into the background."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

080474355X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780804743556 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art, Japanese.
Artists Japan Social conditions.
Artists Japan Economic conditions.
Art japonais.
Artistes Japon Conditions sociales.
Artistes Japon Conditions économiques.
20.10 art and society: general.
Artists Economic conditions.
Artists Social conditions.
Soziale Wirklichkeit
Beruf
Künstler
Kunstenaars.
Beroepen.
Professionalisering.
Condition économique.
Artiste.
Métier.
Japan.
Japon.
1600-1899

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Takeuchi, Melinda.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231399
Call No.: N7350 .A784 2004
Status: Available