Favorites of today's museum-going public, the lushly colorful, sensuous and grotesque paintings of beautiful women by Tsuchida Bakusen (1887-1936) have long been written into the canon of nihonga (Japanese-style painting). It is easy to forget, however, just how transgressive Bakusen's images were at the time of their conception, and how they thrilled and appalled his contemporaries.
Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early 20th-Century Japan, by John Szostak.
Brill, Nonfiction.
Rating: ★★★★
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