ISBN |
0295987863 (pbk.) |
9780295987866 (pbk.) |
Title |
Designed for pleasure : the world of Edo Japan in prints and paintings, 1680-1860 / edited by Julia Meech and Jane Oliver ; with essays by John T. Carpenter ... [et al.] |
Publisher |
New York : Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America in association with University of Washington Press, 2008 |
Physical desc. |
256 p. ; col. ill. ; 31 cm. |
Note |
Issued in connection with an exhibition held 27 February-4 May 2008, Asia Society and Museum, New York. |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
A mirror on the floating world / Donald Jenkins -- Hishikawa Moronobu: tracking down an elusive master / David Waterhouse -- The original source (accept no substitutes!): Okumura Masanobu / Sarah E. Thompson -- Suzuki Harunobu: the cult and culture of color / Allen Hockley -- Katsukawa Shunshō: Ukiyo-e paintings for the samurai elite / Timothy Clark -- Tsutaya Jūzaburō: master publisher / Julie Nelson Davis -- The literary network: private commissions for Hokusai and his circle / John T. Carpenter -- Designed for pleasure: Ukiyo-e as material culture / David Pollack. |
Corporate name |
Asia Society -- Exhibitions |
Subject |
Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions |
Ukiyoe -- Exhibitions |
Prints, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions |
Painting, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions |
Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions |
Added name(s) |
Meech, Julia ed. |
Oliver, Jane (Jane W.) ed. |
Carpenter, John T. |
Added name(s) - Corporate |
Asia Society |
Japanese Art Society of America |