Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting, 1600-1700

How did seventeenth-century Japanese artists and patrons imagine the past? Why did they so often select styles and themes from the court culture of the Heian period (794-1185)? Were references to the past something new, or were artists and patrons in previous periods equally interested in manners that came to be seen as classical? In considering such questions, the contributors to this volume hold that classicism has been an amorphous, changing concept in Japan-just as in the West.Lillehoj, Elizabeth is the author of 'Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting, 1600-1700' with ISBN 9780824826994 and ISBN 082482699X.