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Floating world
Ukiyo-e painting offers a fascinating glimpse of the culture of the floating world, a world of actors and courtesans and elegant pastimes which flourished in Edo, the vibrant capital of Japan. During the Edo period (1600-1868) numerous artists recorded every aspect of this colorful scene in scroll paintings. The collection of the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, assembled by Kikumatsu Imanishi, provides a representative overview of Ukiyo-e painting: it contains paintings by such important masters as Nishikawa Sukenobu, Hosoda Eishi, Katsushika Hokusai, and Kawanabe Kyosai, and a series of works by artists of the Utagawa school.
Kakiemon, Finest Porcelain Art from Japan
"The book provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese and European sources and collections, giving a fresh perspective on Kakiemon to anyone interested in studying pieces in collections worldwide. The book contains over 300 colour images, many from the extensive collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and offers a wealth of detail to illustrate stylistic points. 'Kakiemon porcelain. A handbook' presents all the practical tools necessary for the attribution and dating of Kakiemon porcelain. The Kakiemon style and characteristics are exhaustively analyzed against the background of trade and reception developments.0A must for Kakiemon collectors, professionals and enthusiasts alike, and for anyone interested in Japanese ceramics." --P.[4] of cover.
Asian Art
This collection book presents 119 highlights from the Asian arts in the Rijksmuseum. Treasures from India, Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan and China are introduced in essays by expert curators. With a particular focus on export art, this beautiful book, superbly designed by Irma Boom, offers a magnificent overview of this exceptionally rich Asian art collection.
Master Potter of Meiji Japan
This is the first book in a European language to make a comprehensive study of the life and works of the astonishingly versatile and accomplished Meiji potter, Makuzu Kozan (1842 - 1916), who was acclaimed as one of the greatest ceramic artists of the Meiji period.The Meiji period, after the opening of Japan to the West in the mid-nineteenth century, was a time of momentous change for Japanese society and Kozan's Makuzu workshop makes an ideal case study to examine the effects of these changes on the Japanese ceramic industry. This book tells the story ofKozan's Makuzu wares from their origins in a traditional workshop in Kyoto to their maturity in a prolific factory in the newly-opened port...
A Narrow Bridge
A Japanese lacquerwork board inscribed with the name of each Dutch trading post opperhoofd and the number of ships from the Netherlands arriving in Japan each year; a Japanese gold coin stamped with the Dutch lion emblem; Japanese porcelain with a decoration based on a Dutch original design; and ribbons from the wreath laid by the emperor of Japan at the National Monument on Amsterdams Dam Square in honour of the victims of the Second World War: these are just a few of the objects in the Rijksmuseum collection connected with the shared history of Japan and the Netherlands. For almost 250 years the Netherlands was the sole Western nation permitted by Japan to conduct trade there. In the twent...
To My Dear Pieternelletje
To my dear Pieternelletje contains the correspondence between Pieternella van Hoorn in Amsterdam and her grandfather Willem van Outhoorn, former VOC governor-general, in Batavia, during the period 1710-1720. Numerous letters combined with contemporaneous documents offer a vivid and clear picture of VOC-history.
Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia
Drawing on recent discoveries, this study reconstructs the material culture of the Christian Öngüt in Inner Mongolia. As much of this material no longer survives in the field, it provides an insight into the rise and disappearance of a Christian culture in Asia.
1650-1850
With issue twenty-four of 1650–1850, this annual enters its second quarter-century with a new publisher, a new look, a new editorial board, and a new commitment to intellectual and artistic exploration. As the diversely inventive essays in this first issue from the Bucknell University Press demonstrate, the energy and open-mindedness that made 1650–1850 a success continue to intensify. This first Bucknell issue includes a special feature that explores the use of sacred space in what was once incautiously called “the age of reason.” A suite of book reviews renews the 1650–1850 legacy of full-length and unbridled evaluation of the best in contemporary Enlightenment scholarship. These...
Making Worlds
Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period. This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and performance, art history, and anthropology. The volume advances questions about the history of globalization by focusing on how the expansion of global transit offered possibilities for interactions that included the testing of local identities through inventive experimentation with new and various forms of culture. Case studies show how the imposition of European economic, religious, political, and military models on other parts of the world unleashed unprecedented forces of invention as institutionalized powers came up against the creativity of peoples, cultural practices, materials, and techniques of making. In doing so, Making Worlds offers an important rethinking of how early globalization inconsistently generated ongoing dynamics of making, unmaking, and remaking worlds.
