Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. First ed., first printing (full number line). xvi, 315 pages: illustrations (some color); 27 cm Fine in very good to very good(+) slightly edge-worn jacket now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780824811495, 0824811496

An impressive production, Pritned on coated stock. Numerous illus in b&w. "For well over a thousand years Chinese and Japanese women made, commissioned, collected, and used paintings, yet until very recently this was scarcely acknowledged in the study of East Asian art history. This ground-breaking anthology reveals the depth and diversity of women's influence on East Asian art and adds new dimensions to our understanding of East Asian art history. Notable women in the history of East Asian art are introduced. Written by leading scholars, the essays display a variety of interdisciplinary concerns and deal extensively with social history and literature. Collectively they modify lingering stereotypes of premodern Asian women as receivers rather than shapers of culture and provide glimpses of the ways in which investigations of women and women's perspectives might expand the discourse within the field. —publisher. // Contents: Didactic art for women: the Ladies' classic of filial piety / Julia K. Murray. Princess Sengge Ragi: collector of painting and calligraphy / Shen C.Y. Fu. Women painters in traditional China / Ellen Johnston Laing. The painting of Liu Yin / James Cahill. The conventional success of Ch'en Shu / Marsha Weidner. Women painters at the Heian court / Akiyama Terukazu. Chinese maiden, Silla monk: Zenmyō and her thirteenth-century Japanese audience / Karen L. Brock. Women artists in traditional Japan / Patricia Fister. The three women of Gion / Stephen Addiss. The life and art of Chō Kōran / Patricia Fister. Notes: "Each essay is accompanied by a glossary that gives the characters for Chinese or Japanese names, terms, and book titles"--Preface.