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- catalog abstract "This volume is the first comprehensive study of the women of the pleasure quarters and entertainment districts of Japan of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. It examines the cultural and metaphorical meanings of courtesans and geisha and their appearance in art and Kabuki theater. These women were at the nexus of social relations, part of public culture, organized into institutions and transformed into emblems of femininity, personifications of the romantic ideal. The Women of the Pleasure Quarter reproduces paintings and woodblock prints by forty-six artists, virtually all the leading masters of the genre, including Miyagawa Choshun, Ando Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai, and Kitagawa Utamaro. These works, the most familiar forms of Japanese art to Westerners, are important both for their intrinsic aesthetic quality and for their value as documents of Japanese cultural history. Art and life were fundamentally intertwined in the floating world; it was a realm in which art not only influenced life but in which popular entertainment also transformed itself into art by inventing its own conventions and artistic forms. The Women of the Pleasure Quarter is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, and also seen at Equitable Gallery, New York, and Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. Every work in the exhibition, including several rare hand-colored photographs, is reproduced in full color and discussed in an individual commentary. Capsule biographies of each artist, a glossary, and a selected bibliography complete this enchanting survey of one of the most extraordinary bodies of work in art history.".
- catalog contributor b9204444.
- catalog contributor b9204445.
- catalog contributor b9204446.
- catalog contributor b9204447.
- catalog contributor b9204448.
- catalog contributor b9204449.
- catalog contributor b9204450.
- catalog coverage "Japan Social life and customs Pictorial works Exhibitions.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Foreword / James A. Welu -- Reflections on the floating world / Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton -- Courtesan and geisha: the real women of the pleasure quarter / Liza Crihfield Dalby -- The language of the pleasure quarter / Kazue Edamatsu Campbell -- The Keisei as a meeting point of different worlds: courtesan and the Kabuki Onnagata / Mark Oshima -- The artistic vision / Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton -- Appendix: a portrait of a new woman, in a cage / Kazue Edamatsu Campbell.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-192) and index.".
- catalog description "This volume is the first comprehensive study of the women of the pleasure quarters and entertainment districts of Japan of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. It examines the cultural and metaphorical meanings of courtesans and geisha and their appearance in art and Kabuki theater. These women were at the nexus of social relations, part of public culture, organized into institutions and transformed into emblems of femininity, personifications of the romantic ideal. The Women of the Pleasure Quarter reproduces paintings and woodblock prints by forty-six artists, virtually all the leading masters of the genre, including Miyagawa Choshun, Ando Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai, and Kitagawa Utamaro. These works, the most familiar forms of Japanese art to Westerners, are important both for their intrinsic aesthetic quality and for their value as documents of Japanese cultural history. Art and life were fundamentally intertwined in the floating world; it was a realm in which art not only influenced life but in which popular entertainment also transformed itself into art by inventing its own conventions and artistic forms. The Women of the Pleasure Quarter is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, and also seen at Equitable Gallery, New York, and Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. Every work in the exhibition, including several rare hand-colored photographs, is reproduced in full color and discussed in an individual commentary. Capsule biographies of each artist, a glossary, and a selected bibliography complete this enchanting survey of one of the most extraordinary bodies of work in art history.".
- catalog extent "195 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Women of the pleasure quarter.".
- catalog identifier "1555951155 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "1555951163 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Women of the pleasure quarter.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Hudson Hills Press ; [Lanham, MD] : Distributed by National Book Network,".
- catalog relation "Women of the pleasure quarter.".
- catalog spatial "Japan Social life and customs Pictorial works Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "760/.04424/095207473 20".
- catalog subject "Color prints, Japanese Edo period, 1600-1868 Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "Geishas in art Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "NE1321.8 .S984 1995".
- catalog subject "Ukiyoe Exhibitions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / James A. Welu -- Reflections on the floating world / Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton -- Courtesan and geisha: the real women of the pleasure quarter / Liza Crihfield Dalby -- The language of the pleasure quarter / Kazue Edamatsu Campbell -- The Keisei as a meeting point of different worlds: courtesan and the Kabuki Onnagata / Mark Oshima -- The artistic vision / Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton -- Appendix: a portrait of a new woman, in a cage / Kazue Edamatsu Campbell.".
- catalog title "The women of the pleasure quarter : Japanese paintings and prints of the floating world / Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton with contributions by Kazue Edamatsu Campbell, Liza Crihfield Dalby, Mark Oshima.".
- catalog type "Exhibition catalogs. fast".
- catalog type "Exhibition, pictorial works. fast".
- catalog type "text".