Ogata Korin: Art in Early Modern Japan

Ogata Krin is a highly successful Japanese artist who worked in many genres and media, combining archival research, social history, and visual analysis to understand his approach to art-making. This book provides an intimate and thought-provoking portrait of one of Japan's most significant artists.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 17 September 2021
Publisher: Yale University Press

Best known for his paintings Irises and Red and White Plum Blossoms, Ogata Krin (1658-1716) was a highly successful artist who worked in many genres and media, including hanging scrolls, screen paintings, fan paintings, lacquer, textiles, and ceramics. Combining archival research, social history, and visual analysis, Frank Feltens situates Krin within the broader art culture of early modern Japan. He shows how financial pressures, client preferences, and the impulse toward personal branding in a competitive field shaped Krin's approach to art-making throughout his career. Feltens also offers a keen visual reading of the artist's work, highlighting the ways Krin's artistic innovations succeeded across media, such as his introduction of painterly techniques into lacquer design and his creation of ceramics that mimicked the appearance of ink paintings. This book, the first major study of Krin in English, provides an intimate and thought-provoking portrait of one of Japan's most significant artists.

Best known for his paintings Irises and Red and White Plum Blossoms, Ogata Krin (1658-1716) was a highly successful artist who worked in many genres and media, including hanging scrolls, screen paintings, fan paintings, lacquer, textiles, and ceramics. Combining archival research, social history, and visual analysis, Frank Feltens situates Krin within the broader art culture of early modern Japan. He shows how financial pressures, client preferences, and the impulse toward personal branding in a competitive field shaped Krin's approach to art-making throughout his career. Feltens also offers a keen visual reading of the artist's work, highlighting the ways Krin's artistic innovations succeeded across media, such as his introduction of painterly techniques into lacquer design and his creation of ceramics that mimicked the appearance of ink paintings. This book, the first major study of Krin in English, provides an intimate and thought-provoking portrait of one of Japan's most significant artists.

Weight: 1084g
Dimension: 213 x 261 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780300256918