Ebook: Japanese Art

4 ed. — Boston: Colonial Press, 1907. — 357 p.Carl Sadakichi Hartmann was born in 1867 in Japan to a Japanese woman, Osada, and Carl Herman Oscar Hartmann, a German government and business official. Since his mother died a few months later, the young Hartmann was sent to Hamburg, Germany, with his brother Tanu, to be raised by his paternal grandmother and uncle. He came to the United States in 1882. In 1884 he met Walt Whitman, and in 1898 he met Alfred Stieglitz, two major influences on his life and work. Writing also under the name of Sydney Allen, beginning in 1902, Hartmann was prolific as a critic, poet, and dramatist. Many of his signficiant pieces appeared in Sticglitz’s Camera Notes and Camera Work. In 1902 his well known two volume, A History of American Art was published. In 1923 Hartmann moved to Los Angeles and attempted to become part of the Hollywood crowd. In 1938–1939 he built himself a small place near his daughter, Wistaria, in the California desert. He died on November 21, 1944, on a visit to his eldest daughter, Atma, in St. Petersburg, Florida.Hartmann overstates the case somewhat in claiming in the preface that this is ‘the first history of Japanese Art that attempts to popularize the subject’ in the West. Nonetheless, his tracing of the history of the subject from the seventh century to the modern period is more accurate than not, though the value of the work is greater as a historical document than a dependable source, and some of the errors (the preface refers to the ‘glorious epoch of the Fukugawa Shogunate’, for example) surely raised eyebrows even in 1903. Hartmann claimed later that the work was written in seventeen days, but it remained in print for a quarter century.Contents
Early Religious Painting
The Feudal Period
The Renaissance
The Realistic Movement
The Influence of Japanese Art on Western Civilization
Japanese Architecture and Sculpture
The Ornamental Arts
Modern Japanese Art
Bibliography
IndexList of illustrations
Shunso. Typical Woman of the Ukio-ye School
Chang-Yüeh-hu. Kakemonos or Wall Picture of Bodhi-Dharma Crossing the Sea on a Reed
Mitsunobu. Prince and Princess
Late Tosa School. Orchard in Spring
Massanobu. Portrait of the Actor, Ichikawa Danjuro
Mokké. A Tiger
Korin. Character Portrait
Kuniyoshy. A Ronin
Kiyonaga. Picking Iris
Kunisada. On the River
Hiroshige. A Landscape
Hokusai. View of Mount Fusiyama
Sketches of Cranes for Decorative Work
Silk Embroidery for a Screen
Bronze Sword-Guards and Corner-Pisces
Torii
Pagoda
Dai-Butsu, Asakasa
Bronze Vase
Lacquer-Work
Kiosai. Council in the Dragon Castle