{"product_id":"9780932216076-renegade-edo-and-paris","title":"Renegade Edo and Paris","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJapanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec\u003cbr\u003eThrough a wide selection of Japanese prints and Toulouse-Lautrec works, this book offers a critical look at the renegade spirit inhabiting the graphic arts in both Edo and Paris, highlighting the social impulses behind a burgeoning art production.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: Seattle Asian Art Museum, July 21–December 3, 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA critical look at the renegade spirit that permeates Japanese prints and the posters of fin-de-siècle Paris\u003c\/b\u003eBoth the Edo period (1603–1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges to the status quo from the rising middle class. In Edo (present-day Tokyo), townspeople pursued hedonistic lifestyles as a way of defying the state-sanctioned social hierarchy that positioned them at the bottom. Their new pastimes supplied subject matter for ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world). Many such pictures arrived in France in the 1860s, a time when French art and society were undergoing substantial changes. Fin-de-siècle Paris, like Edo before it, saw the rise of antiestablishment attitudes and a Bohemian subculture. As artists searched for fresh and more expressive forms, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) and his contemporaries were drawn to novel Japanese prints. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile ukiyo-e's formal influences on Toulouse-Lautrec and his peers have been well studied, the shared subversive hedonism that underlies these artworks has been less examined. Through a wide selection of Japanese prints and Toulouse-Lautrec works, this book offers a critical look at the renegade spirit inhabiting the graphic arts in both Edo and Paris, highlighting the social impulses behind a burgeoning art production.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: Seattle Asian Art Museum, July 21–December 3, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40917143453793,"sku":"9780932216076","price":34.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41656130_7095b0d7-78c2-429a-ae3c-77306b23c4ac.jpg?v=1781787366","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780932216076-renegade-edo-and-paris","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}