Modern Masters of Kyoto: The Transformation of Japanese Painting Traditions, Nihonga from the Griffith and Patricia Way Collection

by Michiyo Morioka

Hardcover, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

EX.USA.MMK

Tags

Japan, painting, modernity, Kyoto, USA

Publication

Seattle Art Museum (1999), 333 pages

Description

"Modern Masters of Kyoto presents more than eighty examples of Kyoto nihonga - hanging scrolls, screens, and an album - dating from the 1860s to the 1940s. Featuring two exceptionally original artists, Tsuji Kako (1870-1931) and his pupil Tomita Keisen (1879-1936), the volume includes works by their predecessors, their contemporaries, and their successors. Collectively their works demonstrate the evolution of Kyoto nihonga in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book introduces Western readers to a range of Kyoto artists from the most famous to the talented but relatively unknown. Their often visually stunning paintings provide a window from which to glimpse both the past and the modern in Japanese art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved… (more)

Subjects

Language

English

Original language

English

Physical description

333 p.; 12.5 inches

ISBN

0932216536 / 9780932216533

Call number

EX.USA.MMK

Library's review

Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Seattle Asian Art Museum from August 19, 1999 to January 13, 2000 and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from April 13 to July 31, 2000.

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