Karen M Gerhart
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen M Gerhart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerhart |
| SIGNATURE | GERHART K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pittsburg State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sesson Shūkei
Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan by Sherry D. Fowler
Reviewed by: Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan by Sherry D. Fowler Karen M. Gerhart Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan. By Sherry D. Fowler. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. 440 pages. Hardcover, $70.00. Sherry D. Fowler’s Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan provides an exhaustive examination of the development of Six Kannon imagery over a broad sweep of time, beginning with its introduction from China around the tenth c…
Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan
Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan, edited by Karen M. Gerhart, is a multidisciplinary examination of rituals featuring women, in which significant attention is paid to objects produced for and utilized in these rites as a lens through which larger cultural concerns, such as gender politics, the female body, and the materiality of the ritual objects, are explored. The ten chapters encounter women, rites, and ritual objects in man…
Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets
Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets examines the transmission of painting traditions in Japan from one generation to the next. The contributors emphasize the relationship between inborn abilities and those skills taught in the course of learning how to paint. They focus their discussion on a group of painting masters loosely associated with the prestigious Kano painting atelier, Japan's de facto painting academy throughout the Tokugawa pe…
From Sovereign to Symbol
Reviewed by: From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth-Century Japan by Thomas Donald Conlan Karen M. Gerhart (bio) From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth-Century Japan. By Thomas Donald Conlan. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011. xiv, 231 pages. £45.00. Thomas Conlan’s From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth-Century Japan dramatically refocuses and reconfigu…
The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan
This book explores the ways in which medieval Japanese sought to overcome their sense of powerlessness over death. By attending to both religious practice and ritual objects used in funerals in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the book seeks to provide a new understanding of the relationship between the two. The book is divided into two parts, beginning with depictions of funerary and memorial rites of several members of the aristocracy an…
Ike [Ikeno Machi] Gyokuran
Kuwayama Gyokushū
Kano Tan'yu and Horin Josho
Tokugawa Authority and Chinese Exemplars
Art of Edo Japan
This beautifully illustrated survey examines the art and artists of the Edo period, one of the great epochs in Japanese art. Together with the imperial city of Kyoto and the port cities of Osaka and Nagasaki, the splendid capital city of Edo (now Tokyo) nurtured a magnificent tradition of painting, calligraphy, printmaking, ceramics, architecture, textile work, and lacquer. As each city created its own distinctive social, political, and economic …
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Art of Edo Japan
This beautifully illustrated survey examines the art and artists of the Edo period, one of the great epochs in Japanese art. Together with the imperial city of Kyoto and the port cities of Osaka and Nagasaki, the splendid capital city of Edo (now Tokyo) nurtured a magnificent tradition of painting, calligraphy, printmaking, ceramics, architecture, textile work, and lacquer. As each city created its own distinctive social, political, and economic …
Tokugawa Authority and Chinese Exemplars
Kano Tan'yu and Horin Josho
Ike [Ikeno Machi] Gyokuran
Kuwayama Gyokushū
The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan
This book explores the ways in which medieval Japanese sought to overcome their sense of powerlessness over death. By attending to both religious practice and ritual objects used in funerals in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the book seeks to provide a new understanding of the relationship between the two. The book is divided into two parts, beginning with depictions of funerary and memorial rites of several members of the aristocracy an…
From Sovereign to Symbol
Reviewed by: From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth-Century Japan by Thomas Donald Conlan Karen M. Gerhart (bio) From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth-Century Japan. By Thomas Donald Conlan. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011. xiv, 231 pages. £45.00. Thomas Conlan’s From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth-Century Japan dramatically refocuses and reconfigu…
Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets
Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets examines the transmission of painting traditions in Japan from one generation to the next. The contributors emphasize the relationship between inborn abilities and those skills taught in the course of learning how to paint. They focus their discussion on a group of painting masters loosely associated with the prestigious Kano painting atelier, Japan's de facto painting academy throughout the Tokugawa pe…
Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan
Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan, edited by Karen M. Gerhart, is a multidisciplinary examination of rituals featuring women, in which significant attention is paid to objects produced for and utilized in these rites as a lens through which larger cultural concerns, such as gender politics, the female body, and the materiality of the ritual objects, are explored. The ten chapters encounter women, rites, and ritual objects in man…
Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan by Sherry D. Fowler
Reviewed by: Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan by Sherry D. Fowler Karen M. Gerhart Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan. By Sherry D. Fowler. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. 440 pages. Hardcover, $70.00. Sherry D. Fowler’s Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan provides an exhaustive examination of the development of Six Kannon imagery over a broad sweep of time, beginning with its introduction from China around the tenth c…
Sesson Shūkei
Art (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works)