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Partners in Print - Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market (Hardcover)
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Partners in Print - Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market (Hardcover)
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This compelling account of collaboration in the genre of ukiyo-e
(pictures of the floating world) offers a new approach to
understanding the production and reception of print culture in
early modern Japan. It provides a corrective to the perception that
the ukiyo-e tradition was the product of the creative talents of
individual artists, revealing instead the many identities that made
and disseminated printed work. Julie Nelson Davis demonstrates by
way of examples from the later eighteenth century that this popular
genre was the result of an exchange among publishers, designers,
writers, carvers, printers, patrons, buyers, and readers. By
recasting these works as examples of a network of commercial and
artistic cooperation, she off ers a nuanced view of the complexity
of this tradition and expands our understanding of the dynamic
processes of production, reception, and intention in fl oating
world print culture. Four case studies give evidence of what
constituted modes of collaboration among artistic producers in the
period. In each case Davis explores a different configuration of
collaboration: that between a teacher and a student, two painters
and their publishers, a designer and a publisher, and a writer and
an illustrator. Each investigates a mode of partnership through a
single work: a specially commissioned print, a lavishly illustrated
album, a printed handscroll, and an inexpensive illustrated novel.
These case studies explore the diversity of printed things in the
period ranging from expensive works made for a select circle of
connoisseurs to those meant to be sold at a modest price to a large
audience. They take up familiar subjects from the floating world -
connoisseurship, beauty, sex, and humor - and explore multiple
dimensions of inquiry vital to that dynamic culture: the status of
art, the evaluation of beauty, the representation of sexuality, and
the tension between mind and body. Where earlier studies of
woodblock prints have tended to focus on the individual artist,
Partners in Print takes the subject a major step forward to a
richer picture of the creative process. Placing these works in
their period context not only revealsan aesthetic network
responsive to and shaped by the desires of consumers in a specific
place and time, but also contributes to a larger discussion about
the role of art and the place of the material text in the early
modern world.
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