Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters of Eighteenth-Century Kyoto - Softcover

McKelway, Matthew P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939117320 ISBN 13: 9780939117321

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2005

Synopsis

Traditions Unbound focuses on the work of eight innovative painters who broke new ground in Japanese art. Released from the repressive constraints of the shogunate in Edo and inspired by a new merchant market, they created sometimes radical work that expressed the new freedom enjoyed in the thriving eighteenth-century arts scene of Kyoto. The artists are Watanabe Shiko, Yosa Buson, Matsumura Gekkei (Goshun), Ike Taiga, Maruyama Okyo, Nagasawa Rosetsu, Soga Shohaku, and Ito Jakuchu. Traditions Unbound is a collaborative project of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Agency of Cultural Affairs of Japan, and the Kyoto National Museum.

About this title

About the Author:

Matthew P. McKelway, principal author and guest curator of the exhibition "Traditions Unbound: Groundbreaking Painters of Eighteenth-Century Kyoto," is Society for the Promotion of Science Visiting Scholar at Gakushuin University, Tokyo. He has taught the history of Chinese and Japanese art at the University of Pittsburgh and New York University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0939117320
• ISBN 13: 9780939117321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208