Drama and desire : Japanese paintings from the floating world, 1690-1850 / edited by Anne Nishimura Morse ; with contributions by Asano Shūgō ... [et al.].
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition in Japan 'Edo no yūwaku Bosuton bijutsukan shozō nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ten' (The Allure of Edo: Ukiyo-e Painting from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), and in North America 'Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating world, 1690-1850', organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ..."--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-233) and index.
Contents:
Edo society and culture: Ukiyo-e's setting / Kobayashi Tadashi -- The flowering of low and high arts in Edo Japan / Howard Hibbett -- The origins of Ukiyo-e / Naitō Masato -- Courtesans, geisha, and male prostitutes / Asano Shūgō -- With an eye to style, 1690-1765: early Ukiyo-e -- An air of innocence, 1765-1780: Suzuki harunobu and his contemporaries -- Images of feminine allure,1780-1805: Torii Kiyonaga and Kitagwawa Utamaro -- Establishing a lineage, 1780-1850: the utagawa school -- "The man mad about painting," 1760-1849: Katsushika Hokusai -- Appendix: Mountings and painting techniques of Ukiyo-e hanging scrolls / Philip Meredith, Tanya Uyeda.
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