The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, Artist-Rebel of EDO

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-20285-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 199 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 1153 g

Reihe: Japanese Visual Culture

Miriam Wattles recounts the making of Hanabusa Itcho (1652-1724), painter, haikai-poet, singer-songwriter, and artist subversive, in The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itcho: Artist-Rebel of Edo.

Translating literary motifs visually to encapsulate the tensions of his time, many of Itcho’s original works became models emulated by ukiyo-e and other artists. A wide array of sources reveals a lifetime of multiple personas and positions that are the source of his multifarious artistic reincarnations.

While, on the one hand, his legend as seditious exile appears in the fictional cross-media worlds of theater, novels, and prints, on the other hand, factual accounts of his complicated artistic life reveal an important figure within the first artists’ biographies of early modern Japan.

Zielgruppe

All interested in painting, ukiyo-e, and haikai poetry during the Edo period, and anyone interested the early-modern articulation of authorship and genre in Japan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wattles, Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst

Über Autor(innen)

Wattles, Miriam
Miriam Wattles, Ph.D. (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 2004), is Associate Professor of Japanese Visual Culture at UC Santa Barbara. She has published articles on Edo-period books, art, and historiography. Her present research is on the materiality and migration of books on toba-e, giga, and manga, 1720–1928.

Miriam Wattles, Ph.D. (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 2004), is Associate Professor of Japanese Visual Culture at UC Santa Barbara. She has published articles on Edo-period books, art, and historiography. Her present research is on the materiality and migration of books on toba-e, giga, and manga, 1720–1928.