TY - GEN T1 - Partners in print : artistic collaboration and the ukiyo-e market A1 - Davis, Julie Nelson, 1963- LA - English PP - Honolulu PB - University of Hawaiʻi Press YR - 2015 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn905636887 AB - "This compelling account of collaboration in the genre of ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) offers a new approach to understanding the production and reception of print culture in early modern Japan. It provides a corrective to the perception that the ukiyo-e tradition was the product of the creative talents of individual artists, revealing instead the many identities that made and disseminated printed work. Julie Nelson Davis demonstrates by way of examples from the later eighteenth century that this popular genre was the result of an exchange among publishers, designers, writers, carvers, printers, patrons, buyers, and readers. By recasting these works as examples of a network of commercial and artistic cooperation, she offers a nuanced view of the complexity of this tradition and expands our understanding of the dynamic processes of production, reception, and intention in floating world print culture. Four case studies give evidence of what constituted modes of collaboration among artistic producers in the period. In each case Davis explores a different configuration of collaboration: that between a teacher and a student, two painters and their publishers, a designer and a publisher, and a writer and an illustrator. Each investigates a mode of partnership through a single work: a specially commissioned print, a lavishly illustrated album, a printed handscroll, and an inexpensive illustrated novel. These case studies explore the diversity of printed things in the period ranging from expensive works made for a select circle of connoisseurs to those meant to be sold at a modest price to a large audience. They take up familiar subjects from the floating world--connoisseurship, beauty, sex, and humor--and explore multiple dimensions of inquiry vital to that dynamic culture: the status of art, the evaluation of beauty, the representation of sexuality, and the tension between mind and body. Where earlier studies of woodblock prints have tended to focus on the individual artist, Partners in Print takes the subject a major step forward to a richer picture of the creative process. Placing these works in their period context not only reveals an aesthetic network responsive to and shaped by the desires of consumers in a specific place and time, but also contributes to a larger discussion about the role of art and the place of the material text in the early modern world."--Publisher's description CN - N7353.6.U35 D38 2015 SN - 9780824854409 SN - 0824854403 SN - 9780824869533 SN - 0824869532 SN - 9780824839383 SN - 0824839382 KW - Artistic collaboration : Japan : History : 18th century : Case studies. KW - Color prints, Japanese : Edo period, 1600-1868 : Case studies. KW - Ukiyoe : Case studies. KW - Collaboration artistique : Japon : Histoire : 18e siècle : Études de cas. KW - Estampe en couleurs japonaise : 1600-1868 (Époque d'Edo) : Études de cas. KW - Ukiyo-e : Études de cas. KW - ART : Techniques : Printmaking. KW - ART : Prints. KW - CRAFTS & HOBBIES : Printmaking. KW - Artistic collaboration KW - Color prints, Japanese : Edo period KW - Ukiyoe KW - Japan KW - 1600 - 1868 KW - 1750-1800 KW - Case studies KW - History ER -