Research Catalog

Title

Hiroshi Sugimoto : gates of paradise / Hiroshi Sugimoto ; essays by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mark K. Erdmann, Ryuji Hiraoki, Yukie Kamiya, and Timothy Verdon.

Author

Sugimoto, Hiroshi, 1948-

Publication

New York, NY : Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc. ; in association with Japan Society, Inc., 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Erdmann, Mark K.
• Hiraoka, Ryūji, 1974-
• Kamiya, Yukie
• Verdon, Timothy
• Japan Society (New York, N.Y.), organizer.

Description

216 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm

Summary

In an electrifying moment in 1585, four Japanese youths appeared before Pope Gregory XIII, summoned to his court from the nascent Christian community in Japan to present themselves at the capital of their faith. Legendary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto follows in the boys footsteps, capturing the architectural wonders of Rome, Florence, and Venice as the Eastern visitors might have seen them on their grand tour. Sugimoto's images present each chapel and theatre as a marvel, imposing and dark. He contextualizes his photographs with Japanese works from the period and the decades that follow. These panels and objects attest to the impact of Western culture, specifically Jesuit Christianity, on Momoyama and Edo aesthetics as Japanese artists envisioned scenes of European life. Exhibition: Japan Society, New York, USA (20.10.2017-07.01.2018).

Alternative Title

Gates of paradise

Subject

• Sugimoto, Hiroshi, 1948-
• Sugimoto, Hiroshi, 1948- > Exhibitions
• Sugimoto, Hiroshi, 1948- > Expositions
• Japan Society (New York, N.Y.) > Exhibitions
• Japan Society (New York, N.Y.)
• 2000-2099
• Art, Japanese > New York (State) > New York > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Art, Japanese
• Photography, Artistic
• New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise, October 20, 2017-January 7, 2018, organized by Japan Society, New York"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Motoatsu Sakurai -- The Quattro Ragazzi of the Tensho Embassy -- Quattro Ragazzi / Hiroshi Sugimoto -- Plates -- Much ado about Japan and Quattro Ragazzi / Ryûji Hiraoka -- Imagining "Southern barbarians": the birth and reception of Nanban art in sixteenth-century Japan / Mark K. Erdmann -- Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise / Timothy Verdon -- The sea connects, the sea divides: the Tensho Embassy through the eyes of Hiroshi Sugimoto / Yukie Kamiya -- Christianity and the Tea Ceremony / Hiroshi Sugimoto.

Call Number

JQF 18-25

ISBN

• 9780847860692
• 0847860698

LCCN

2017944907

OCLC

1010524200

Author

Sugimoto, Hiroshi, 1948- artist, author.

Title

Hiroshi Sugimoto : gates of paradise / Hiroshi Sugimoto ; essays by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mark K. Erdmann, Ryuji Hiraoki, Yukie Kamiya, and Timothy Verdon.

Publisher

New York, NY : Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc. ; in association with Japan Society, Inc., 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Erdmann, Mark K., writer of added commentary.

Hiraoka, Ryūji, 1974- writer of added commentary.

Kamiya, Yukie, writer of added commentary.

Verdon, Timothy, writer of added commentary.

Japan Society (New York, N.Y.), organizer.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-25