Staging the supernatural: ghosts and the theater in Japanese prints

Staging the Supernatural presents striking, eerie nineteenth-century woodblock prints from Japan that feature ghosts, demons, and other supernatural entities. The book digs into the country's rich folkloric traditions and how they were brought to life on stage, with insightful essays that explo...

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Hauptverfasser: Brooks, Kit (VerfasserIn), Feltens, Frank (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, DC Freer Gallery of Art [2023]
Washington, DC Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution [2023]
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Zusammenfassung:Staging the Supernatural presents striking, eerie nineteenth-century woodblock prints from Japan that feature ghosts, demons, and other supernatural entities. The book digs into the country's rich folkloric traditions and how they were brought to life on stage, with insightful essays that explore the depiction of spirits through the centuries, the relationship between printed images and cultural imagination, and how kabuki and Noh theater performances reflect Japan's deep connection to and shifting notions of the supernatural
Beschreibung:166 Seiten Illustrationen 23 x 23 cm
ISBN:1588347206
9781588347206

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