Images of familial intimacy in Eastern and Western art

Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art offers a comparative art and socio-historical analysis of selected images of familial intimacy in Asia and Europe from the pre-modern era to the present day based on an examination of the value systems and expectations existing at the time in the regions in which the works were created. A wide variety of images are discussed ranging from family portraits and depictions of the home in seventeenth-century Dutch genre paintings, ukiyoe prints and fusuma sliding wall panels of the Edo period, to familial images made after the Korean War of 1950-53, providing the reader with a rare insight into the evolution East and West of the cultural norms and customs impacting on the family and personal space.

Preface ... vii List of Contributors ... ix List of Figures ... x 1. An Introduction to Interpreting Images of Family, Mother and Child, and the Home ... 1 Nakamura Toshiharu 2. Faith, Family and Politics in Lucas Cranach the Elder's Holy Kinship Altarpiece ... 54 Hirakawa Kayo 3. Domestic Bliss? Images of the Family and Home in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Art ... 83 John Loughman 4. Changing Images of Childhood: The Children's Portrait in Netherlandish Art and Its Influence ... 108 Mirjam Neumeister 5. Man and Woman in Ise monogatari-e: Scene Selection in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century ... 132 Yasuda Atsuo 6. Karako Asobi: Images of Chinese Children at Play ... 185 7. The Development of the Doll Festival as Seen in Paintings: Focusing on Edo Period Family Actions ... 218 Miyazaki Momo 8. Images of Children in Modern Art in Taiwan: Public Messages Concealed in Private Depictions ... 249 Li Su-chu 9. Images of the Family in 1950s Korea: The Family as a Metaphor for Repose ... 287 Kim Yisoon Bibliography ... 313 Photo Credits and Sources ... 345 Index ... 347