Tokyo: Art & Photography

by Lena Fritsch (Editor), Clare Pollard (Editor)

This beautifully designed book is a celebration of one of the world's most creative, dynamic and fascinating Tokyo. It spans 400 years, with highlights including Kano school paintings; the iconic woodblock prints of Hiroshige; Tokyo Pop Art posters; the photography of Moriyama Daido and Ninagawa Mika; manga; film; and contemporary art by Murakami Takashi and Aida Makoto. Visually bold and richly detailed, this publication looks at a city which has undergone constant destruction and renewal and it tells the stories of the people who have made Tokyo so famous with their insatiable appetite for the new and innovative - from the samurai to avantgarde artists today. Co-edited by Japanese art specialists and curators Lena Fritsch and Clare Pollard from Oxford University, this accessible volume features 28 texts by international experts of Japanese culture, as well as original statements by influential artists.

Genres: Nonfiction, Photography, Art

288 pages, Paperback

Published July 30, 2021

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[E. G.]

Director's Foreword
Introduction, by Lena Fritsch & Clare Pollard

--Famous Views of the Eastern Capital: Depicting the City in Paintings and Prints, Clare Pollard
--Edo and Tokyo in Maps, Radu Leca
--Edo and the Arts of War and Peace, Clare Pollard
--Tōshūsai Sharaku, Clare Pollard
--Imaging Disaster in Edo/Tokyo: Prints and the Great Earthquakes of 1855 and 1923, Gennifer Weisenfeld
--'Continuity within Change': Expanding Horizons in Japanese Woodblock Prints, Amy Reigle Newland
--Art and the Emperor, Clare Pollard
--Tokyo: Hub of Modernity in Art, Ajioka Chiaki
--Sugiura Hisui, Joe Hazell
--Turbulent Times in Asakusa: Opera and Revue before the Pacific War, Ingrid Fritsch
--Moga: Contemporary Beauties in Modern Japanese Prints, Maureen de Vries
--Beauties, Monsters and Heroes: Women and their 'Floating World', David Elliott
--The Many Faces of Tokyo in Photography, Lena Fritsch
--Cultural Explosions: Shinjuku in the Late 1960s, Hayashi Michio
--Yamashita Kikuji, Lena Fritsch
--Tokyo Pop in New York, Ikegami Hiroko
--Murakami Takashi, Joe Hazell
--Cardboard Houses and Love Hotels: Photography Beyond Landmarks, Lena Fritsch
--Real Tokyo versus Neo-Tokyo: Aida Makoto and Yamaguchi Akira as Urban Visionaries, Adrian Favell
--Chim↑Pom, Lena Fritsch
--Koizumi Meiro, Lena Fritsch
--Manga-tropolis: A City of Comics, Paul Gravett
--Mutant City: Tokyo in Films, Roland Domenig
--Enrico Isamu Oyama, Lena Fritsch
--Azaleas in the Olympic Stadium, Ulf Meyer
--Tokyo as a Transnational City, Watanabe Toshio

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