Sex and the Floating World by Timon Screech

Sex and the Floating World by Timon Screech

Newly revised and expanded, this second edition of Timon Screech's definitive "Sex and the Floating World" offers a real assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints today known as shunga. Changes in Japanese law in the 1990s enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many shunga picture-books have since appeared. There has, however, been very little attempt to situate the imagery within the contexts of sexuality, gender or power. Questions of aesthetics, and of whether shunga deserve a place in the official history of Japanese art, have dominated, and the question of the use of these images has been avoided. Timon Screech seeks to re-establish shunga in a proper historical frame of culture and creativity. Shunga prints are not like any other form of picture for the simple fact that they are overtly about sex. And once we begin to examine them first and foremost as sexual apparatus, then we must be prepared for some surprises. The author opens up for us the strange world of sexual fantasy in the Edo culture of eighteenth-century Japan, and investigates the tensions in class and gender of those that made and made use of shunga.

With concern, proportion, wit and a bit of levity, the author of this authoritative and invaluable contribution to scholarship has given us the book for which we have long waited-- Donald Richie, Japan Times Screech provides a fascinating and informative introduction to the social and sexual habits of pre-modern Japan, copiously illustrated and full of witty anecdotes as well as solid scholarly research. The ideal bedtime read? Insight Japan

Timon Screech is Professor in the History of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and Senior Associate at the Sainsbury Institute for the study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. His books include The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan (1996) and The Shogun's Painted Culture (Reaktion, 2000).

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ISBN 13	9781861894328
ISBN 10	1861894325
Titel	Sex and the Floating World
Autor	Timon Screech
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Reaktion Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2009-02-01
Seitenanzahl	320
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