Love, Fight, Feast

The Art of Storytelling in Japan

Khanh Trinh

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Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
01 December 2021

Oriental art; History of art: ancient & classical art; Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

A uniquely comprehensive survey of Japanese narrative art across eight centuries.

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 formats. Quotations from and allusions to heroic epics and romances were disseminated through exquisite paintings, woodblock prints, and in pieces of applied arts such as lacquerware 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 thirteenth to the twentieth 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.

AUTHOR: Khanh Trinh is a scholar of East Asian Art history and curator of Japanese art at Zurich's Museum Rietberg.

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A uniquely comprehensive survey of Japanese narrative art (Monogatari-e, or story pictures) across eight centuries .

Demonstrates the entire range of artistic media and techniques used for this type of Japanese art .

Features some 100 rarely or never before published art works, including paintings, woodblock prints, illustrated woodblock-printed books, lacquer and metal objects, porcelain, and textiles

170 colour illustrations

By: Khanh Trinh
Imprint: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 240mm,
Weight: 1.946kg
ISBN: 9783039420247
ISBN 10: 3039420240
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 01 December 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Khanh Trinh is a scholar of East Asian Art history and curator of Japanese art at Zurich’s Museum Rietberg.