The western scientific gaze and popular imagery in later Edo Japan : the lens within the heart /

Screech, Timon,

The western scientific gaze and popular imagery in later Edo Japan : the lens within the heart / Lens within the heart Timon Screech. - xiv, 305 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm. - Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism . - Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-299) and index.

Trade and culture in the eighteenth century -- The 'Batavian Temperament' and its critics -- Mechanics and Karakuri -- Machinery for pictures -- Seeing in -- The eye and the lens -- The view from on high. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

0521461065 9780521461061 0521482259 9780521482257

95015643


Art, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868
Art, Japanese--European influences
Art and technology--Japan

N7353.5. / S4 1996

709.52

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