Understanding Shunga

Understanding Shunga
Title Understanding Shunga PDF eBook
Author Majella Munro
Publisher ER Books
Pages 64
Release 2008
Genre Erotic art
ISBN 1904989543

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This sumptous guide explains the cultural forces behind Shunga images and why the Japanese find them so erotic. It also reveals the influence of Shunga on great Western art movements such as Impressionism. Exquisitely and abundantly illustrated, this is the most comprehensively informative book ever to be written on the subject - truly a masterclass'.'

Shunga

Shunga
Title Shunga PDF eBook
Author Bret Norton
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2002
Genre Art, Japanese
ISBN 9789654941440

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Stories, terms and extracts of illustrated scrolls, known as pillow books, that reflect the atmosphere of Shunga or Japanese eroticism.

Japanese Erotic Art

Japanese Erotic Art
Title Japanese Erotic Art PDF eBook
Author Ofer Shagan
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2013
Genre Art
ISBN 9780500291177

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The definitive book on Japanese erotic art or shunga

Shunga

Shunga
Title Shunga PDF eBook
Author Timothy Clark
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2013
Genre Art
ISBN 9780714124766

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In early modern Japan, thousands of sexually explicit paintings, prints, and illustrated books with texts were produced, euphemistically called spring pictures (shunga). Frequently tender, funny and beautiful, shunga were mostly done within the popular school known as pictures of the floating world (ukiyo-e), by celebrated artists such as Utamaro and Hokusai. Erotic Japanese art was heavily suppressed in Japan from the 1870s, and as a result it has only been made possible to publish unexpurgated examples in Japan within the last 20 years. This publication presents this fascinating art in its historical and cultural context, drawing on the latest scholarship and featuring over 400 images of works from major public and private collections.

The Tokugawa World

The Tokugawa World
Title The Tokugawa World PDF eBook
Author Gary P. Leupp
Publisher Routledge
Pages 1199
Release 2021-09-20
Genre History
ISBN 1000427331

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With over 60 contributions, The Tokugawa World presents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that is unmatched in its breadth and scope. In its early modern period, under the Tokugawa shoguns, Japan was a world apart. For over two centuries the shogun’s subjects were forbidden to travel abroad and few outsiders were admitted. Yet in this period, Japan evolved as a nascent capitalist society that could rapidly adjust to its incorporation into the world system after its forced "opening" in the 1850s. The Tokugawa World demonstrates how Japan’s early modern society took shape and evolved: a world of low and high cultures, comic books and Confucian academies, soba restaurants and imperial music recitals, rigid enforcement of social hierarchy yet also ongoing resistance to class oppression. A world of outcasts, puppeteers, herbal doctors, samurai officials, businesswomen, scientists, scholars, blind lutenists, peasant rebels, tea-masters, sumo wrestlers, and wage workers. Covering a variety of features of the Tokugawa world including the physical landscape, economy, art and literature, religion and thought, and education and science, this volume is essential reading for all students and scholars of early modern Japan.

Japanese Erotic Fantasies

Japanese Erotic Fantasies
Title Japanese Erotic Fantasies PDF eBook
Author Chris Uhlenbeck
Publisher Brill Hotei
Pages 264
Release 2005
Genre Art
ISBN

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This is the first modern study on Japanese erotic print art (so called shunga) and shows highlights from the oeuvre of Kitagawa Utamaro, Katsushika Hokusai, Suzuki Harunobu, Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Kuniyoshi and many others. Various essays written by international experts describe this fascinating genre in its social, historical and artistic context, discussing themes like homosexuality, voyeurism, life in Edo's brothels, techniques of composition etc.

A Companion to Dada and Surrealism

A Companion to Dada and Surrealism
Title A Companion to Dada and Surrealism PDF eBook
Author David Hopkins
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 500
Release 2022-01-06
Genre Art
ISBN 1119238226

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This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender. This book provides an excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism from some of the finest established and up-and-coming scholars in the field Offers historical coverage as well as in–depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender One of the first studies to produce global coverage of the two movements, it also includes a section dealing with the critical and cultural aftermath of Dada and Surrealism in the later twentieth century Dada and Surrealism are arguably the most popular areas of modern art, both in the academic and public spheres