This pioneering study investigates painting as performance—or the execution of paintings in the presence of an audience—in Japan during the period between the 16th and 19th centuries. The various socioeconomic settings and functions of this artistic practice are analyzed, from elite entertainments and expressions of community to alternative artistic identities and public relations events. The shared experience between artist and observer is considered as well as the resultant artwork, contending that the concept of painting as performance depends on the circumstances of execution and the social relations between those involved. Representing the first attempt at confronting this subject in a methodical manner, it draws from copious research in the fields of Japanese history, art history, and visual cultures studies, highlighting this unique process as a phenomenon worthy of enquiry.

Performing / Painting in Tokugawa Japan (Hammonds Foundation Monograph Series on Asien Art)

Arts & Photography

Hofmann, Alexander

History & Criticism

Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH

Die Dissertation befaßt sich mit dem Skontroführer als zentraler Institution des Präsenzhandels an den deutschen Wertpapierbörsen. Trotz der Elektronisierung des Börsenhandels hat die Rechtsfigur des Skontroführers, der insbesondere für die Vermittlung und Börsenpreisermittlung im Präsenzhandel verantwortlich zeichnet, seine Berechtigung zwar nicht verloren, jedoch in den letzten Jahren sowohl in tatsächlicher als auch in rechtlicher Hinsicht weitreichende Änderungen erfahren. Insbesondere die Börsenrechtsreformen durch das Vierte Finanzmarktförderungsgesetz und das Finanzmarktrichtlinie-Umsetzungsgesetz geben Anlaß, die Stellung des Skontroführers, der die vormalige Rechtsfigur des Kursmaklers abgelöst hat, eingehend zu beleuchten.

Der Skontroführer an den deutschen Wertpapierbörsen (Börsen- und kapitalmarktrechtliche Abhandlungen) (German Edition)

Business & Money

Economics

Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Comprised of two hundred paintings, ceramics and lacquers, mainly from Japan yet also including examples from China and Korea, the Klaus F. Naumann Collection represents one of the foremost efforts by a private individual in this field to find its way into a public institution. This publication introduces and illustrates for the first time all the works in the collection housed at the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The main emphasis is on the development of painting in Japan, represented here in formats that range from intimate hanging scrolls to large-scale screens, and on a wide variety of subjects that include Buddhist icons, sublime ink landscapes, illustrations of literary and mythological subjects and images of animals, plants and human beings. Vessels with natural glazes, blue-and-white porcelains and serving dishes with painterly polychrome designs, objects lacquered almost monochrome red and others that display sprinkled gold decorations over a black ground provide a glimpse of the multi-faceted achievements of more than a thousand years of art in Japan.

Tiger, Kraniche, Schöne Frauen – Tigers, Cranes, Beautiful Women: Asiatische Kunst aus der Sammlung Klaus F. Naumann – Asian Art from the Klaus F. Naumann Collection (German Edition)

Michael Imhof Verlag

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