Shogun (Tm)s Painted Sculpture - Fear and Creativity in the Japanese States, 1760-1829

Informationen zum Autor Timon Screech is Senior Lecturer in the history of Japanese art at SOAS! University of London! and Senior Research Associate at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. He is the author of several books on Japanese history and culture! including Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan 1700-1820 (Reaktion! 1999). Klappentext The Shogun's Painted Culture analyzes Japanese culture prior to contact with Europe. Japan's ruling elite used an "iconography of absence" to portray themselves as! literally! unseeable. As European contact increased! Matsudaira Sadanobu! the Shogun's chief minister during this period! sought to codify Japanese culture before it was overwhelmed. Sadanobu was so successful! Screech argues! that he can be thought of as defining Japanese culture as we know it today. Zusammenfassung An analysis of a little-explored area of Japanese cultural history that reassesses the career of the chief minister Matsudaira Sadanobu! who played a key role in defining what we think of as Japanese culture.

Product details

• Authors: Timon Screech
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9781861890641
• ISBN: 978-1-86189-064-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Envisioning Asia; Envisioning Asia
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts