Author: Fischer, Felice and Kyoko Kinoshita et al.
Title: Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush
Description: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2007. Hardcover. Gray cloth with red color illustrated dustjacket. 464 pp. 5 gatefolds; 26 bw, 461 color figures. Accompanied the 2007 exhibition of the same name, held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Includes seven essays; Wonderfully illustrated; Ike Taiga (1723-1776) and his wife Tokuyama Gyokuran (1727-1784) were preeminent artists in 18th-century Japan. This landmark book--the only comprehensive survey available in English—focuses on the lives and times of these artists and accompanies the first-ever exhibition devoted to their work in the United States. Considered by contemporaries to be an eccentric marvel, indifferent to worldly preoccupations, Taiga is best known as an exponent of the so-called Nanga school of Chinese literati painting. He was hugely prolific and experimental, working in an impressive range of styles, techniques, compositions, and subjects to produce over 1,000 calligraphies and paintings, and many large-scale fusuma (sliding doors) and screens. While not as well known as her husband, Gyokuran was a significant artist and a well-regarded poet of Japanese verse. Taiga wrote poetry in Chinese, and translated poems by both artists are featured prominently in this volume. VG/VG exlibrary with ownership stamp on top of textblock; small label at base of dustjaccket spine, smaller label on upper right rear dustjacket panel. Small label and return date slip inside rear cover.A very clean, very minimally used copy.

Keywords: Asian Artists ; Ike Taiga, Tokuyama Gyokuran ; ;


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