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Aesthetics of the Floating World offers an in-depth account of three aesthetic concepts—mitate, yatsushi, and fūryū—which influenced the way early-modern Japanese popular culture absorbed and responded to this force of cultural tradition. Combining literary, historical, and visual evidence, the ...
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In Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan, Rosina Buckland offers an account of the career of the painter Taki Katei (1830–1901). Drawing on a large body of previously unpublished paintings, collaborative works and book illustrations by ...
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In Miyazawa Kenji and His Illustrators, Helen Kilpatrick examines re-visionings of the literature of one of Japan’s most celebrated authors, Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933). The deeply Buddhist Kenji's imaginative dōwa (children’s tales) are among the most frequently illustrated in Japan today. ...
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Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographic inventions in Magdalene imagery and the contextual factors that shaped her representation in visual art from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries.
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Hell-bent for Heaven in Tateyama mandara treats the history, religious practice, and visual culture that developed around the mountain Tateyama in Toyama prefecture.
Caroline Hirasawa traces the formation of institutions to worship kami and Buddhist divinities in the area, examines how two towns ...
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Jerusalem, in her central role for Judaism, Christianity and Islam, became the setting for – or even the protagonist of – oral, written and pictorial narratives. This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to entanglements between the city, as a continuously redefined space, and its narratives.
Oud Holland is the oldest surviving art-historical periodical in the world. It is entirely devoted to the visual arts in the Netherlands up to the mid-nineteenth century.
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Sinds 150 jaar wordt Surinaams erfgoed bewaard en getoond in musea. Die werden opgericht en geleid door mensen waarvan de achtergrond uiteenliep van planter tot onderwijzer en van wetenschapper tot politieagent. Pepijn Reeser beschrijft hoe en op basis van welke ideeën deze musea tot stand ...