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Picturing the Floating World - Ukiyo-e in Context (Paperback)
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Picturing the Floating World - Ukiyo-e in Context (Paperback)
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Today we think of ukiyo-e-"the pictures of the floating world"-as
masterpieces of Japanese art, highly prized throughout the world.
Yet it is often said that ukiyo-e were little appreciated in their
own time and were even used as packing material for ceramics. In
Picturing the Floating World Julie Nelson Davis debunks this myth
and demonstrates that ukiyo-e was thoroughly appreciated as a field
of artistic production, worthy of connoisseurship and canonization
by its contemporaries. Putting these images back into their dynamic
context, she shows how consumers, critics, and makers produced and
sold, appraised and collected, described and recorded ukiyo-e. She
recovers this multilayered world of pictures in which some were
made for a commercial market, backed by savvy entrepreneurs looking
for new ways to make a profit, while others were produced for
private coteries and high-ranking connoisseurs seeking to enrich
their cultural capital. The book opens with an analysis of period
documents to establish the terms of appraisal brought to ukiyo-e in
late eighteenth-century Japan, mapping the evolution of the genre
from a century earlier and the development of its typologies and
the creation of a canon of makers-both of which have defined the
field ever since. Organized around divisions of major technological
and aesthetic developments, the book reveals how artistic practice
and commercial enterprise were intertwined throughout ukiyo-e's
history, from its earliest imagery through the twentieth century.
The depiction of particular subjects in and for the floating world
of urban Edo and the process of negotiating this within the larger
field of publishing are examined to further ground ukiyo-e as
material culture, as commodities in a mercantile economy. Picturing
the Floating World offers a new approach: a critical yet accessible
analysis of the genre as it was developed in its social, cultural,
and political milieu. The book introduces students, collectors, and
enthusiasts to ukiyo-e as a genre under construction in its own
time while contributing to our understanding of early modern visual
production.
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