Beyond «The Great Wave»

The Japanese Landscape Print, 1727-1960

von James King

234 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Japanese landscape print has had a tremendous influence on Western art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Japan and in the West it is often seen as the dominant form in Ukiyo-e, pictures from the floating world. And yet for all its importance, it is a genre whose history has never been written. Beyond The Great Wave is a survey or overview for all those interested in discovering the inner dynamics of one of art history’s most remarkable achievements. However, it is also a quest narrative, in which landscapes and notions of Japan as a homeland are intertwined and interconnected. Although there has never been a book-length study of the Japanese landscape print in either Japanese or English, a great deal has been written about the two giants of the genre, Hokusai and Hiroshige. From what traditions did these two nineteenth-century artists emerge? Who were their predecessors? What influence, if any, did they have on other Ukiyo-e artists? Can their influence be seen in the shin-hanga and sôsaku-hanga artists of the twentieth century? This book addresses these issues, but it also looks at a number of other factors, such as the growth of tourism in nineteenth-century Japan, necessary for understanding this genre.

• Reihe: Natur, Wissenschaft und die Künste / Nature, Science and the Arts / Nature, Science et les Arts
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus
• ISBN: 9783034303170
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.04.2010
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers