An Enduring Vision: 17Th- To 20Th-Century Japanese Painting from the Gitter-Yelen Collection - Hardcover

Kobayashi, Tadashi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0894940872 ISBN 13: 9780894940873

Publisher: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2002

Synopsis

An Enduring Vision: 17th to 20th-Century Japanese Painting from the Gitter-Yelen Collection presents 138 exceptional art works by the great masters of the Edo period as well as the paintings of their students, friends, and associates, whose relationships the authors explore and discuss. In addition to those artists mentioned above, the selection includes paintings by Ike Taiga, Sengai, and Tawaraya Sotatsu, among others. The catalogue offers a rare opportunity to appreciate in depth the ways in which these gifted individuals developed as artists.

About this title

About the Author:

Tadashi Kobayashi is Professor of Art History, Gakushum University, Director of the Chiba Art Museum, and Editor in Chief of Kokka.

From Booklist:

This celebration of four centuries of Japanese art is astonishingly rich, vibrant, and detailed. Moving chronologically in a blend of sophisticated commentary and dazzling reproductions, its topics range from styles, schools, and trends to individual artists, including poet-artist Yosa Buson, Maruyama Okyo (founder of the realist school of Japanese painting), the three "eccentrics" of the eighteenth century, Hakuin and Zenga painting, ukiyo-e ("floating world") paintings, and more. This survey is unique because, unlike many, it moves beyond the Edo (1615-1868) period into the Meiji period, which saw a transformation in Japanese aesthetics with the establishment of new exhibition venues showing Western art. The idea of integrating outside elements with the Japanese spirit was viewed as fundamental to late nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernism, and resulted in the country's first oil paintings, the new classicism, paintings reflecting World War II and the postwar period, the work of avant-garde nanga painter Tomioka Tessai, and modern interpretations of Zen thought. Included is a chronology of historical periods, a detailed listing of exhibition works, and artists' seals. Lauren Roberts
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About this edition

• Publisher: New Orleans Museum of Art
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0894940872
• ISBN 13: 9780894940873
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320