Beyond the Great Wave: The Japanese Landscape Print, 1727-1960The 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. |
Contents
Chinese Abstraction Japanese Reality | 13 |
Ukiyoe Landscape Prints 17271830 | 39 |
Hokusai the Perfect Artist | 62 |
The Final Series | 77 |
Hiroshige the Perfect | 83 |
Poetical Landscapes Meiji Illuminations | 110 |
Shinhanga | 126 |
Japonisme | 136 |
Aesthetics versus Commerce | 152 |
Hiroshi Yoshida | 158 |
Sôsakuhanga | 165 |
Endnotes | 193 |
Glossary | 203 |
213 | |
Acknowledgements | 221 |
Common terms and phrases
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