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Title The artist as professional in Japan / edited by Melinda Takeuchi
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description xvi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents 1. Introduction / Melinda Takeuchi -- 2. Tori-busshi and the Production of Buddhist Icons in Asuka-Period Japan / Donald F. Mccallum -- 3. E'nichibo Jonin, the Saint's Companion / Karen L. Brock -- 4. Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: Tosa Mitsunobu (1434-ca. 1523) and the Afterlife of a Name / Melinda Takeuchi -- 5. A Tosa Potter in Edo / Louise Allison Cort -- 6. Artistic Identity and Ukiyo-e Prints: The Representation of Kitagawa Utamaro to the Edo Public / Julie Nelson Davis -- 7. Takamura Koun and Takamura Kotaro: On Being a Sculptor / Christine M. E. Guth -- 8. The Formation of a Japanese Architectural Profession / Jonathan M. Reynolds
Summary "Through individual case studies involving the professions of sculptor, painter, potter, printmaker, and architect, this book addresses the question about what it meant to be an artist in Japan from the seventh century to the twentieth." "Some of the essays in this volume reveal how the machine of political discourse worked to invent different views of the same artist over time. Others explore cases of later artists manipulating the names of earlier ones for professional or cultural gain, while still other essays reconstruct some of the forces brought to bear on artistic reception by the makers' contemporaries." "The book also addresses issues of canon formation: by what complex process are some artists and objects singled out to communicate rhetorical or aesthetic meaning while others lapse into the background."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index
Subject Artists -- Japan -- Economic conditions.
Artists -- Japan -- Social conditions.
Art, Japanese.
Artists -- Japan -- Social conditions -- History.
Artists -- Japan -- Economic conditions -- History.
Author Takeuchi, Melinda.
LC no. 2003024414
ISBN 080474355X