The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, Artist-Rebel of EDO

In The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, Miriam Wattles reveals many facets of a forgotten artist of the Edo period. Infamous for being exiled, in later generations he became a symbol for a subtly subversive potential for art.

About the author

Miriam Wattles, Ph.D. (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 2004), is Associate Professor of Japanese Visual Culture at UC Santa Barbara. She has published articles on Edo-period books, art, and historiography. Her present research is on the materiality and migration of books on toba-e, giga, and manga, 1720-1928.

Product details

• Authors: Miriam Wattles
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2013
• EAN: 9789004202856
• ISBN: 978-90-04-20285-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 199 mm x 256 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 1153 g
• Series: Japanese Visual Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history