Taigaas True Views: The Language of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth-Century Japan

by Melinda Takeuchi

Book Overview

In its broadest sense this book is about the relationship between topography and the language of visual symbols a painter manipulates, or must invent, to suggest specific places. How do artists communicate identifiable localities in paintings? What meanings are encoded in topographical paintings? What do such pictures tell us about artist, audience, and society? What do these paintings reveal about deeply felt cultural attitudes about place?

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804720886
• ISBN13: 9780804720885
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 11.4"