A revised edition with a new preface of this important work, previously available only in hardback. Screech goes to the core of later eighteenth century thought through popular objects, using sources wholly unstudied since their writing.
A revised edition with a new preface of this important work, previously available only in hardback. Screech goes to the core of later eighteenth century thought through popular objects, using sources wholly unstudied since their writing.
Timon Screech was trained at Oxford, Harvard and Gakushuin and is currently Reader in the History of Japanese Art at SOAS, University of London, and Senior Associate at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. He is the author of over half a dozen books in Japanese and English on the culture of the Edo period, including Sex and the Floating World (1999) and The Shogun's Painted Culture (2000).
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List of Plates and Figures Preface Preface to 2nd Edition Introduction 1. Trade and Culture in the Eighteenth Century 2. The 'Batavian Temperament' and its Critics 3. Mechanics and Motions 4. Machinery for Pictures 5. Seeing In 6. The Eye and the Lens 7. The View from on High Notes Glossary References Bibliographical Addendum Index
List of Plates and Figures Preface Preface to 2nd Edition Introduction 1. Trade and Culture in the Eighteenth Century 2. The 'Batavian Temperament' and its Critics 3. Mechanics and Motions 4. Machinery for Pictures 5. Seeing In 6. The Eye and the Lens 7. The View from on High Notes Glossary References Bibliographical Addendum Index
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