A third gender beautiful youths in Japanese Edo-period prints and paintings (1600-1868)
Gender relations were complex in Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). Wakashu, male youth, were desired by men and women, constituting a third gender; with their androgynous appearance and variable sexuality. For the first time outside Japan, A Third Gender examines the fascination with wakashu in Edo-peri...
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Royal Ontario Museum
2016
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Gender relations were complex in Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). Wakashu, male youth, were desired by men and women, constituting a third gender; with their androgynous appearance and variable sexuality. For the first time outside Japan, A Third Gender examines the fascination with wakashu in Edo-period culture and their visual representation in art, demonstrating how they destabilize the conventionally held model of gender binarism.The volume will reproduce, in colour, over a hundred works, mostly woodblock prints and illustrated books from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries produced by a number of designers ranging from such well-known artists as Okumura Masanobu, Suzuki Harunobu, Kitagawa Utamaro and Utagawa Kunisada, to lesser known artists such as Shigemasa, Eishi and Eiri. A Third Gender is based on the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, which houses the largest collection of Japanese art in Canada, including more than 2,500 woodblock prints |
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| Beschreibung: | Rückseite des Titelblattes: "Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal Ontario Museum from May 7, 2016 to November 27, 2016" Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 215 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts 30 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780888545145 978-0-88854-514-5 0888545142 0-88854-514-2 |