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ART HISTORY

PUBLISHER
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

BOOK FORMAT
Clothbound, 10 x 11.5 in. / 248 pgs/200 color

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2007 p. 53   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780878467105 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CAD $72.50 GBP £50.00

AVAILABILITY
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TERRITORY
WORLD

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Fort Worth
Kimbell Art Museum, 2/12/07-4/29/07

Ontario
Royal Ontario Museum, 5/19/07-8/07

Boston
MFA Boston, 8/15/07-12/16/07

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Drama and Desire: Japanese Painting from the Floating World, 1690-1850

Edited by Anne Nishimura Morse. Text by Anne Nishimura Morse, Howard Hibbett, Masato Naito, Kobayashi Tadashi, Asano Shugo.

A rare gem: Drama and Desire presents 69 masterpieces of Japanese ukiyo-e painting by such renowned masters as Hokusai, Utamaro and Harunobu, among others--all depicting aspects of the so-called "floating world," the licentious demimonde of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), where actors and courtesans, rich patrons and bohemians, cavorted. While woodblock prints of the floating world have long been a favorite of art lovers, the remarkable ink-and-dye paintings of the period are far less known and much less available. This volume collects key examples by some of Japan's most important artists, each conveying a singular and very moving freedom of expression. Here, we find wistful interiors of courtesans at rest, onstage panoramas of actors in their finery, explicitly erotic scenes of lovemaking and outrageous fantasies. Essays by renowned American and Japanese scholars, including Howard Hibbett and Masato Naito, set the context with discussions of Edo society and culture, the ways in which "high" and "low" arts mixed in ukiyo-e painting, and the prominent roles played by courtesans, geishas and male prostitutes in the subculture of the period. This is a milieu of passion and mystery, color and flamboyance, boldly rendered in these uncommonly exotic masterworks. Published to accompany the first major American exhibition of ukiyo-e paintings in recent years, hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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