Full Description
The use of pictures to communicate a story has a long tradition in Japanese culture that dates back more than a thousand years. Such narrative illustrations draw on Buddhist texts, classic literature, poetry, and theatrical scenes to create rich visual imagery realised in a wide range of media and format. Quotations from and allusions to heroic epics and romances were disseminated through exquisite paintings, woodblock prints, and in pieces of applied arts such as lacquer ware or ceramics, thus becoming anchored in the collective consciousness. As story-telling art found expression in a variety of materialities, it became an integral part of daily life. A fascinating narrative space evolved that combined artistic excellence and aesthetic pleasure.
Love, Fight, Feast features some one hundred paintings, woodblock prints, illustrated woodblock-printed books, as well as lacquer and metal objects, porcelain, and textiles from the 13th to the 20th century, alongside scholarly essays on a range of aspects of Japanese narrative art. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the renowned Museum Rietberg in Zurich, the book offers a unique survey of the multifaceted, colourful, and imaginative world of Japanese narrative art across eight centuries.
Contents
DIRECTOR'S FOREWORD Annette Bhagwati
SPONSOR'S STATEMENT Ishibashi Hiroshi, Ishibashi Foundation
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Khanh Trinh, Estelle Bauer, Melanie Trede
LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION
NOTES TO THE READER
THE MULTIFACETED WORLD OF JAPANESE NARRATIVE ART: AN INTRODUCTION Khanh Trinh
UNFOLDING TALES: AESTHETIC STRATEGIES IN JAPANESE HANDSCROLLS Estelle Bauer
NARRATING THROUGH TEXT AND IMAGE: CHARACTER AND SEQUENCE IN JAPANESE HANDSCROLLS Sebastian Balmes
CREATIVITY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, AND MASS PRODUCTION: THE WEALTH OF PICTORIAL NARRATIVES IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY JAPAN Melanie Trede
MANGA FLOWS: READING THE PANELED SPREAD AGAINST HANDSCROLL AND WEBTOON Jaqueline Berndt
THE TALE OF JAPANESE NARRATIVE ART
THE POWER OF FAITH
POETS ON THE MOVE: THE ISE STORIES
LOVE AND INTRIGUE: THE TALE OF GENJI
HEROES VYING FOR POWER AND GLORY:
THE TALE OF THE HEIKE
VANQUISHING DEMONS: SHUTEN DŌJI AND
RAJŌMON
IMAGINING CHINA
THE REALM OF PARODY AND
ENTERTAINMENT
COLLECTING JAPANESE ART IN EUROPE
CHECKLIST
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
CHRONOLOGY
