Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan Innovation, Experiments, and Anxieties

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 26.02.2025
• Subjects: Art & Art History; Asian history; Asian Studies; early modern; History; History and Archaeology; History of science; History of Science & Technology; Knowledge production; Mathematics and Science; Nature in art; plants and animals; Science: general issues; The Arts; The Arts: treatments and subjects; visual culture; ART; Japan; South; Early Modern Studies; History of science; Animals and nature in art (still life, landscapes an seascapes, etc); Asian; AUP Wetenschappelijk; Nature in art; Science and Technology; Art and Material Cultures; Asia; China; Asian history; c. 1600 to c. 1700; General; Knowledge production, early modern, visual culture, plants and animals; SCIENCE; East Asia and North East Asia; c. 1800 to c. 1900; Asian Studies; c. 1700 to c. 1800; HISTORY
• ISBN: 9789048559091; 904855909X
• DOI: 10.5117/9789048559091

The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plants in the new contexts of empirical and epistemological concerns, political and social agendas, and cultural interests. In particular, they examine the ways in which scholars, professional painters, and publishers engendered the sociohistorical meanings of the images.