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Author:

Brooks, Kit (Writer on Japanese art), author.

Title:

Staging the supernatural : ghosts and the theater in Japanese prints / Kit Brooks and Frank Feltens.

Publisher:

Distributed by Smithsonian Books

Copyright Date:

℗♭2023

Description:

166 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 23 cm

Subject:

Prints, Japanese--20th century--Exhibitions.
Art, Japanese--20th century--Exhibitions.
Serigraphy--Japan.
Supernatural in art.
Estampe japonaise--20e siecle--Expositions.
Art japonais--20e siecle--Expositions.
Serigraphie--Japon.
Surnaturel dans l'art.

Other Authors:

Feltens, Frank, author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-153)

Contents:

Foreword and acknowledgments / Kit Brooks and Frank Feltens -- Introduction--my ghosts: a collector's tale / Pearl Moskowitz -- Note to reader -- Kabuki / Kit Brooks -- Pictorializing the paranormal in Kabuki ghost plays -- Entries -- Noh / Frank Feltens -- The Noh theater through the eyes of Tsukioka Kogyo -- Entries -- Appendix -- The process of making a woodblock print.

Summary:

Staging the Supernatural presents striking, eerie nineteenth-century woodblock prints from Japan that feature ghosts, demons, and other supernatural entities. The book digs into the country's rich folkloric traditions and how they were brought to life on stage, with insightful essays that explore the depiction of spirits through the centuries, the relationship between printed images and cultural imagination, and how kabuki and Noh theater performances reflect Japan's deep connection to and shifting notions of the supernatural.

ISBN:

9781588347206
1588347206

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1369511850

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)