Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets : : Talent and Training in Japanese Painting / / ed. by Victoria Weston, Brenda G. Jordan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Chance, Frank,; Gerhart, Karen M.,; Jordan, Brenda G.,; Mcclintock, Martha J.,; Rimer, J . Thomas,; Weston, Victoria,
• HerausgeberIn: Jordan, Brenda G.,; Weston, Victoria,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets examines the transmission of painting traditions in Japan from one generation to the next. The contributors emphasize the relationship between inborn abilities and those skills taught in the course of learning how to paint. They focus their discussion on a group of painting masters loosely associated with the prestigious Kano painting atelier, Japan's de facto painting academy throughout the Tokugawa period (1615-1868) and into the early modern era. By delving into why, how, and what these painters transmitted to students through their teaching, readers gain insight into artistic and aesthetic sensibilities active in Japanese painting and a fuller appreciation of extant paintings within their cultural and historical contexts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes To The Reader -- An Afterword Posing As A Foreword: Some Comparative And Miscellaneous Thoughts On Talent And Training -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Talent,Training, And Power: The Kano Painting Workshop In The Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 2. Copying From Beginning To End?: Student Life In The Kano School -- Chapter 3. In The Studio Of Painting Study: Transmission Practices Of Tani Bunchō -- Chapter 4. Kawanabe Kyōsai's Theory And Pedagogy: The Preeminence Of Shasei -- Chapter 5. Okuhara Seiko: A Case Of Funpon Training I N L Ate Edo Literat I Painting -- Chapter 6. Institutionalizing Talent And The Kano: Legacy At The Tokyo School Of Fine Arts, 1889-1893 -- Epilogue From Technique To Art -- Appendix. An Examination Of Records: Painting Commissions As Determinants Of Hierarchy In The Early-Seventeenth-Century Kano House -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index