Images of familial intimacy in Eastern and Western art / / edited by Nakamura Toshiharu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820213103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 90-04-26194-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Collana: Intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives, , 2213-0608 ; ; Volume 4
• Disciplina: 704.9/4930687
• Soggetti: Families in art; Intimacy (Psychology) in art; Art and society - Europe; Art and society - East Asia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Toshiharu Nakamura -- An Introduction to Interpreting Images of Family, Mother and Child, and the Home / Toshiharu Nakamura -- Faith, Family and Politics in Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Holy Kinship Altarpiece / Kayo Hirakawa -- Domestic Bliss? Images of the Family and Home in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Art / John Loughman -- Changing Images of Childhood: The Children’s Portrait in Netherlandish Art and Its Influence / Mirjam Neumeister -- Man and Woman in Ise monogatari-e: Scene Selection in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century / Atsuo Yasuda -- Karako Asobi: Images of Chinese Children at Play / Tatsuya Tajima -- The Development of the Doll Festival as Seen in Paintings: Focusing on Edo Period Family Actions / Momo Miyazaki -- Images of Children in Modern Art in Taiwan: Public Messages Concealed in Private Depictions / Su-chu Li -- Images of the Family in 1950's Korea: The Family as a Metaphor for Repose / Yisoon Kim -- Bibliography / Toshiharu Nakamura -- Photo Credits and Sources / Toshiharu Nakamura -- Index / Toshiharu Nakamura.
• Sommario/riassunto: Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art offers a ; comparative art and socio-historical analysis of selected images of familial intimacy in Asia and Europe from the pre-modern era to the present day based on an examination of the value systems and expectations existing at the time in the regions in which the works were created. A wide variety of images are discussed ranging from family portraits and depictions of the home in seventeenth-century Dutch genre paintings, ukiyoe prints and fusuma sliding wall panels of the Edo period, to familial images made after the Korean War of 1950-53, providing the reader with a rare insight into the evolution East and West of the cultural norms and customs impacting on the family and personal space.