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Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty: Revised and Expanded Second Edition - Softcover

Davis, Julie Nelson

 
9781789142358: Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty: Revised and Expanded Second Edition

Synopsis

Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) was one of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e, ‘pictures of the floating world’, in late eighteenth-century Japan, and was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women. In this book, Julie Nelson Davis draws on a wide range of period sources, makes a close study of selected print sets and reinterprets Utamaro in the context of his times. Offering a new approach to issues of the status of the artist and the construction of gender, identity, sexuality and celebrity in the Edo period, and now in an updated edition containing a new preface and many new images, this book is a significant contribution to the field, and will be a key work for readers interested in Japanese arts and cultures.

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About the Author

Julie Nelson Davis is Professor of the History of Art (Modern East Asian) at the University of Pennsylvania.

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