Painting the floating world : ukiyo-e masterpieces from the Weston collection / edited by Janice Katz and Mami Hatayama ; with contributions by Timothy Clark, Murata Takako, Helen M. Nagata, Nagata Seiji, Jennifer Preston, Sara Sumpter and Tanya Uyeda.

"From the 17th through the 19th century, artists in Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo) captured the metropolitan amusements of the floating world (ukiyo in Japanese) through depictions of subjects such as the beautiful women of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters and performers of the kabuki theater. In contrast...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Art Institute of Chicago (Organizer, Host institution)
Other Authors: Katz, Janice (Editor)
Hatayama, Mami (Editor)
Clark, Timothy, 1959- (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Murata, Takako (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Nagata, Helen (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Nagata, Seiji (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Preston, Jennifer (Contributor to Painting the floating world) (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Sumpter, Sara (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Uyeda, Tanya (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL : Art Institute of Chicago, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Weston, Roger L. > Art collections > Exhibitions.
Weston, Pamela > (Pamela Phillips) > Art collections > Exhibitions.
Weston, Roger L., > 1948-
Bauhaus Dessau > 1986-1994. > Bereich Architektur und Sammlungen.
Ukiyoe > Exhibitions.
Genre painting, Japanese > Edo period, 1600-1868 > Exhibitions.
Painting > Private collections > Illinois > Exhibitions.
ART / Asian.
ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections.
HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.
HISTORY / Asia / Japan.
Art > Private collections.
Genre painting, Japanese.
Genre painting, Japanese > Edo period.
Painting > Private collections.
Ukiyoe.
Illinois.
Ukiyo-e.
1600-1868
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:350 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm
Variant Title:
Ukiyo-e masterpieces from the Weston collection
Format: Book

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