Details

Subject(s)

• Art, Japanese—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Narrative art—Japan—Exhibitions [Browse]

Editor

• Trinh, Khanh [Browse]

Author

• Trinh, Khanh [Browse]
• Leggeri-Bauer, Estelle [Browse]
• Trede, Melanie [Browse]

Writer of supplementary textual content

• Balmes, Sebastian [Browse]

Host institution

• Museum Rietberg [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Exhibition catalogs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• exhibition catalogs [Browse]

Summary note

The use of pictures to communicate a story has a long tradition in Japanese culture that dates back more than a thousand years. Such narrative illustrations draw on Buddhist texts, classic literature, poetry, and theatrical scenes to create rich visual imagery realized in a wide range of media and formats. Quotations from and allusions to heroic epics and romances were disseminated through exquisite paintings, woodblock prints, and in pieces of applied arts such as lacquerware or ceramics, thus becoming anchored in the collective consciousness. As story-telling art found expression in a variety of materialities, it became an integral part of daily life. A fascinating narrative space evolved that combined artistic excellence and aesthetic pleasure. Love, Fight, Feast features some one hundred paintings, woodblock prints, illustrated woodblock-printed books, as well as lacquer and metal objects, porcelain, and textiles from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, alongside scholarly essays on a range of aspects of Japanese narrative art. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the renowned Museum Rietberg in Zurich, the book oƯffers a unique survey of the multifaceted, colorful, and imaginative world of Japanese narrative art across eight centuries.

Notes

In conjunction with an exhibition held at Museum Rietberg Zürich, September 10 - December 5, 2021.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-356) and index.

Contents

• Foreword
• Sponsor's statement
• Acknowledgments
• Lenders to the exhibition
• Notes to the reader
• Contributors
• Essays: The multifaceted world of Japanese narrative art: an introduction
• Unfolding tales: aesthetic strategies in Japanese handscrolls
• Narrating through text and image: character and sequence in Japanese handscrolls
• Creativity, historiography, and mass production: the wealth of pictorial narratives in seventeenth-century Japan
• Manga flows: reading the paneled spread against handscroll and webtoon
• I. A panorama of Japanese narrative art
• II. The power of faith
• III. Poets on the move: the ISE stories
• IV. Love and intrigue: the tale of Genji
• V. Heroes vying for power and glory: the tale of the Heike
• VI. Vanquishing demons: Shuten Dōji and Rajōmon
• VII. Imagining China
• VIII. Parody and entertainment
• IX. Collecting Japanese art in Europe
• Checklist
• Bibliography
• Index
• Chronology.

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Other title(s)

• Multifaceted world of Japanese narrative art
• Liebe, Kriege, Festlichkeiten.

ISBN

• 9783039420247 ((English edition ; : hardbound))
• 3039420240 ((English edition ; : hardbound))

OCLC

1273112748

International Article Number

• 9783039420247

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