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Search - Nihonga: Transcending the Past : Japanese-Style Painting, 1868-1968

Nihonga Transcending the Past JapaneseStyle Painting 18681968
Author: Ellen P. Conant, J. Thomas Rimer, Steven D. Owyoung

Unlike other styles and movements within Japanese art, Nihonga - literally "Japanese paintng" - is neither stylistically nor intellectually cohesive. It selects and incorporates many trends and traditions, from monochrome ink painting to the colorful native Yamato-e, from bold Rimpa designs to ascetic literati painting. It ... more »embraces painters as widely diverse as Yokoyama Taikan and Kayama Matazo. In the works of these and all Nihonga artists, the genre can be seen to evolve, refashion itself, change directions, and incorporates new subjects and techniques with astonishing resilience and to marvelous effect.

The lavishly illustrated study examines the first century of the development of Nihonga, from the middle decades of the nineteenth-century through modern masterpieces of abstraction and representation created in the 1960s. Published in conjunction with the ground-breaking exhibition at The Saint Louis Art Museum, it represents an unprecedented collaboration of American and Japanese scholars on the art of Nihonga. The catalogue, undertaken with the support of The Japan Foundation and prepared with the cooperation of more than eighty Japanese museums, corporations, and individuals, features 171 works by 61 artists, including framed paintings, folding screens, fusuma (sliding wooden doors), hanging scrolls, handscrolls, and albums, many never seen outside Japan before and all reproduced here in full color.

Authors Ellen P. Conant and J. Thomas Rimer discuss Nihonga from historical and cultural perspectives, and in eighteen brief essays leading Japanese scholars explore the subjects of early art organizations, Nihonga and art education, the institutions that supported and encouraged the genre's growth, the development of modern Nihonga, and the materials and techniques of Nihonga paintings. Lengthy biographical entries for each of the artists and an extensive bibliography of both Japanese and English sources make this an important work for all scholars and students of Japanese and modern art. While the Nihonga genre emerged from a desire to confront and synthesize Western influences which may no longer be so urgent at the end of the twentieth century, this book eloquently demonstrates that the visual beauty of the masterpieces of Nihonga transcends the time and place of their creation and is capable of truly touching and inspiring us now.

ISBN-13: 9780834803633
ISBN-10: 0834803631
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 351
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Weatherhill
Book Type: Hardcover
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