Copying the master and stealing his secrets
Subtitle: talent and training in Japanese painting
By: edited by Brenda G. Jordan and Victoria Weston.
Contributors: Jordan, Brenda G.; Weston, Victoria Louise.
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press; Univ of Hawaii Pr
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Kanō School; Painting, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Painting -- Study and teaching -- Japan -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: An afterword posing as a foreword: some comparative and miscellaneous thoughts on talent and training / J. Thomas Rimer; title: Talent, training and power: the Kano painting workshop in the seventeenth century / Karen M. Gerhart; title: Copying from beginning to end? Student life in the Kano school / Brenda G. Jordan; title: In the studio of painting study: transmission practices of Tani Bunchō / Frank Chance; title: Kawanabe Kyōsai's theory and pedagogy: the preeminence of Shasei / Brenda G. Jordan; title: Okuhara Seiko: a case of Funpon training in late Edo literati painting / Martha J. McClintock and Victoria Weston; title: Institutionalizing talent and the Kano legacy at the Tokyo school of fine arts, 1889-1893 / Victoria Weston; title: Epilogue: from technique to art / Brenda G. Jordan.