Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan 1700-1820 - Second Edition
Autor Timon Screechen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 noi 2009
During the Edo period in eighteenth-century Japan, erotic paintings and prints known today as shunga were popular among both men and women. Yet, prior to Tim Screech’s definitive study, Sex and the Floating World, no one had attempted to situate these overtly sexual images within the contexts of the sexual, gender, or class tensions of the time.
Newly revised and expanded, this second edition of Sex and the Floating World examines how and why these images were made and used. Along the way, Screech illuminates a provocative world of sexual fantasy in Edo Japan.
‘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.”—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
Newly revised and expanded, this second edition of Sex and the Floating World examines how and why these images were made and used. Along the way, Screech illuminates a provocative world of sexual fantasy in Edo Japan.
‘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.”—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
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781861894328
ISBN-10: 1861894325
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 45 color plates, 126 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.88 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
ISBN-10: 1861894325
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 45 color plates, 126 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.88 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Notă biografică
Timon Screechis professor of art history in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the 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 and The Shoguns Painted Culture.
Cuprins
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1. Erotic Images, Pornography, Shunga and their Use
2. Time and Place in Edo Erotic Images
3. Bodies, Boundaries, Pictures
4. Symbols in Shunga
5. The Scopic Regimes of Shunga
6. Sex and the Outside World
7. Re-engaging with Edo Erotica
References
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
Introduction
1. Erotic Images, Pornography, Shunga and their Use
2. Time and Place in Edo Erotic Images
3. Bodies, Boundaries, Pictures
4. Symbols in Shunga
5. The Scopic Regimes of Shunga
6. Sex and the Outside World
7. Re-engaging with Edo Erotica
References
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
Recenzii
"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