This text offers an assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints today known as shunga. Changes in Japanese law have at last enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many books have since appeared in Japan. In this book, the author aims to situate the imagery within the contexts of sexuality, gender or power. Questions of aesthetics and of whether shunga deserve a place in the official history of Japanese art, have dominated and the question of the use of the images has been avoided. Screech seeks to re-establish shunga in its proper historical contexts of culture and creativity.
- ISBN10 0824822048
- ISBN13 9780824822040
- Publish Date 31 December 1999 (first published 1 March 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 18 February 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Hawai'i Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English