Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Katz, Janice
2. Hatayama, Mami
3. Clark, Timothy, 1959-
4. Murata, Takako
5. Nagata, Helen
6. Nagata, Seiji
7. Preston, Jennifer
8. Sumpter, Sara
9. Uyeda, Tanya
10. Art Institute of Chicago, organizer, host institution.

Description

1. 350 pages : color illustrations; 34 cm

Summary

1. "From the 17th through the 19th century, artists in Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo) captured the metropolitan amusements of the floating world (ukiyo in Japanese) through depictions of subjects such as the beautiful women of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters and performers of the kabuki theater. In contrast to ukiyo-e prints by artists such as Katsushika Hokusai, which were widely circulated, ukiyo-e paintings were specially commissioned, unique objects that displayed the maker's technical skill and individual artistic sensibility. Featuring more than 150 works from the celebrated Weston Collection, the most comprehensive of its kind in private hands and published here for the first time in English, this lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched volume addresses the genre of ukiyo-e painting in all its complexity. Individual essays explore topics such as shunga (erotica), mitate-e (images that parody or transform a well-known story or legend), and poetic inscriptions, revealing the crucial role that ukiyo-e painting played in a sophisticated urban culture"--

Alternative title

1. Ukiyo-e masterpieces from the Weston collection

Subject

1. Genre painting, Japanese
2. Painting > Private collections
3. Illinois
4. Ukiyoe > Exhibitions
5. Genre painting, Japanese > Edo period
6. Genre painting, Japanese > Edo period, 1600-1868 > Exhibitions
7. HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
8. ART / Asian
9. Painting > Private collections > Illinois > Exhibitions
10. Weston, Roger L > Art collections > Exhibitions
11. HISTORY / Asia / Japan
12. Weston, Pamela (Pamela Phillips) > Art collections > Exhibitions
13. 1600-1868
14. Art > Private collections
15. ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections
16. Exhibition catalogs

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Foreword / James Rondeau -- Acknowledments / Janice Katz -- The beautiful world of Ukiyo-e / Roger L. Watson -- Gathering beauties from the past: Ukiyo-e paintings in the Weston Collection / Mami Hatayama -- Note to the reader -- Chronology -- Toward a revised history of Ukiyo-e / Nagata Seiji -- Ways of seeing beauty in Ukiyo-e / Mami Hatayama -- Beauty and identity in Katsukawa Shunchō's Standing Courtesan / Janice Katz -- The splendor of hairstyles, fashion, and cosmetics in Ukiyo-e paintings / Murata Takako -- Catalogue entries 1-25 -- Shunga: "spring pictures" / Timothy Clark -- Catalogue entries 26-50 -- A word on inscriptions: writing and image on Bijinga paintings / Helen M. Nagata -- Catalogue entries 51-68 -- "Transformational pictures": Mitate-e and Yatsushi-e / Timothy Clark -- Catalogue entries 69-103 -- Feminine beauty in Edo: Utagawa Toyokuni's One Hundred Looks of Various Women / Murata Takako -- Catalogue entries 104-146 -- To dress a beautiful woman: painting and mounting techniques in Ukiyo-e / Tanya Uyeda -- Catalogue entries 147-154.

Call number

1. JQG 19-145

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index.

Title

1. Painting the floating world : ukiyo-e masterpieces from the Weston collection / edited by Janice Katz and Mami Hatayama ; with contributions by Timothy Clark, Murata Takako, Helen M. Nagata, Nagata Seiji, Jennifer Preston, Sara Sumpter and Tanya Uyeda.

Publisher

1. Chicago, IL : Art Institute of Chicago, [2018]

Distributor

1. New Haven, CT : distributed by Yale University Press

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1600-1868

Added author

1. Katz, Janice, editor.
2. Hatayama, Mami, editor.
3. Clark, Timothy, 1959- writer of supplementary textual content.
4. Murata, Takako, writer of supplementary textual content.
5. Nagata, Helen, writer of supplementary textual content.
6. Nagata, Seiji, writer of supplementary textual content.
7. Preston, Jennifer, writer of supplementary textual content.
8. Sumpter, Sara, writer of supplementary textual content.
9. Uyeda, Tanya, writer of supplementary textual content.
10. Art Institute of Chicago, organizer, host institution.

LCCN

1. 2018038766

ISBN

1. 9780300236910 hardcover
2. 0300236913 hardcover

Research call number

1. JQG 19-145