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11%OFFMelinda Takeuchi - Taiga's True Views - 9780804720885 - V9780804720885
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Taiga's True Views

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Description for Taiga's True Views Paperback. This lavishly illustrated book on one of Japan's preeminent painters focuses on the relationship between topography and the language of visual symbols a painter manipulates, or must invent, to suggest specific places. Num Pages: 232 pages, 64 half-tones 33 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 289 x 222 x 12. Weight in Grams: 810.

In its broadest sense this book is about the relationship between topography and the language of visual symbols a painter manipulates, or must invent, to suggest specific places. How do artists communicate identifiable localities in paintings? What meanings are encoded in topographical paintings? What do such pictures tell us about artist, audience, and society? What do these paintings reveal about deeply felt cultural attitudes about place?

This book is also about a central moment in Japanese painting. The middle decades of the eighteenth centruy were a time of enormous creative energy and burgeoning intellectual curiousity. A growing stress on the ... Read more

His career is emblematic of the changes in the intellectual order. He began as a humble artisan, producing on demand utilitarian items such as fans, decorated lanterns, seals, underdrawings for woodblocks, and designs for fabrics. At his death, he was one of the most celebrated painters in Japan. Drawn to the study of Chinese culture at an early age, Taiga set out to transform himself into a cultivated man along the lines of the Chines literatus, or wen-jen. In the process, he discovered the mélange of Ming and Ch'ing painting styles transimtted to Japan under the rubric of Chinese scholars' painting. In addition, Taiga devoted himself to the literary pursuits – arts in the Chinese context – of calligraphy, poetry, tea ceremony, herbalism, dance, and antiquarianism. In emulation of the Chinese ideal of seeking knowledge through observation and study of nature, Taiga embarked on many journeys throughout Japan. These trips proved auspicious, for they gave rise to networks of pantronage, helped diffuse the new literati style (called Nanga or Bunjinga) throughout Japan, and yielded the subject matter that was to become the centerpiece of Taiga's art – actual scenery.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804720885
SKU
V9780804720885
Shipping Time
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Reviews for Taiga's True Views
"Takeuchi brilliantly captures the spirit of an entire age, artistically and intellectually. In addition, her information and observations are rendered in beautifully crafted prose."—Monumenta Nipponica "In explaining Taiga's uniqueness and historic importance, Takeuchi makes sharp and vital connections between observable aspects of Taiga's painting style and the meaning they had against the contemporary background of Japanese beliefs and society. Her ... Read more

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