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Renegade Edo and Paris : Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec by Xiaojin Wu (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Both the Edo period (1603–1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges to the status quo from the rising middle class.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSeattle Art Museum

ISBN-100932216072

ISBN-139780932216076

eBay Product ID (ePID)18065344459

Product Key Features

Number of Pages104 Pages

Publication NameRenegade Edo and Paris : Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Asian / Japanese, European

Publication Year2023

TypeTextbook

AuthorXiaojin Wu

Subject AreaArt

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight22.4 Oz

Item Length10.7 in

Item Width9.4 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

ReviewsA focused gem of an exhibition . . . does an exemplary job of focusing our attention on the fascinating relationships between popular culture in seventeenth to nineteenth-century Edo and nineteenth-century Paris.

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

SynopsisA critical look at the renegade spirit that permeates Japanese prints and the posters of fin-de-siècle Paris Both the Edo period (1603?1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges to the status quo from the rising middle class. In Edo (present-day Tokyo), townspeople pursued hedonistic lifestyles as a way of defying the state-sanctioned social hierarchy that positioned them at the bottom. Their new pastimes supplied subject matter for ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world). Many such pictures arrived in France in the 1860s, a time when French art and society were undergoing substantial changes. Fin-de-siècle Paris, like Edo before it, saw the rise of antiestablishment attitudes and a Bohemian subculture. As artists searched for fresh and more expressive forms, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864?1901) and his contemporaries were drawn to novel Japanese prints. While ukiyo-e's formal influences on Toulouse-Lautrec and his peers have been well studied, the shared subversive hedonism that underlies these artworks has been less examined. Through a wide selection of Japanese prints and Toulouse-Lautrec works, this book offers a critical look at the renegade spirit inhabiting the graphic arts in both Edo and Paris, highlighting the social impulses behind a burgeoning art production. Exhibition dates: Seattle Asian Art Museum, July 21?December 3, 2023, A critical look at the renegade spirit that permeates Japanese prints and the posters of fin-de-siècle Paris Both the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges to the status quo from the rising middle class. In Edo (present-day Tokyo), townspeople pursued hedonistic lifestyles as a way of defying the state-sanctioned social hierarchy that positioned them at the bottom. Their new pastimes supplied subject matter for ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world). Many such pictures arrived in France in the 1860s, a time when French art and society were undergoing substantial changes. Fin-de-siècle Paris, like Edo before it, saw the rise of antiestablishment attitudes and a Bohemian subculture. As artists searched for fresh and more expressive forms, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) and his contemporaries were drawn to novel Japanese prints. While ukiyo-e's formal influences on Toulouse-Lautrec and his peers have been well studied, the shared subversive hedonism that underlies these artworks has been less examined. Through a wide selection of Japanese prints and Toulouse-Lautrec works, this book offers a critical look at the renegade spirit inhabiting the graphic arts in both Edo and Paris, highlighting the social impulses behind a burgeoning art production. Exhibition dates: Seattle Asian Art Museum, July 21-December 3, 2023