{"product_id":"a-tale-of-two-balconies-paperback","title":"A Tale of Two Balconies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKit Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKatherine Roeder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis cleverly designed book about Katsushika Hokusai's \u003ci\u003eThe Sazaidō of Gohyakurakanji\u003c\/i\u003e and James McNeill Whistler's \u003ci\u003eVariations in Flesh Colour and Green - The Balcony, \u003c\/i\u003e also includes drawing, collage, coloring and press-out activities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a presentation that divides the book into two equal parts, \u003ci\u003eA Tale of Two Balconies\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the elements that make each of these artworks--both in the collection of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution--unique. Exploring the depicted locations of each (in Edo Japan and Victorian England) enables deeper insight as the authors examine the idea of the balcony itself as a construct at once both private and public - creating a view and juxtaposing the different cultural domains both within and beyond the balcony railing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis stunning book is double-fronted, so readers can begin reading from either side. A carefully-designed centre section includes immersive creative activities in which readers actively engage with the themes of perspective and recollection through their own art-making activities - collage, drawing, colouring, or building a pop-out Hokusai diorama and Victorian Whistler toy theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKit Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e is the curator of Asian Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. Specializing in prints and paintings of Japan's Edo (1603-1868) and Meiji eras (1868-1912), their primary research interests revolve around the re-evaluation of \"eccentric\" artists of the eighteenth century, as well as the relationship between illustrated books and paintings, and special prints that emulate the visual qualities of other media. Brooks has held positions at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, British Museum, Harvard Art Museums, and the Children's Museum in Boston. They curated the exhibition \u003ci\u003eUncanny Japan: The Art of Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)\u003c\/i\u003e at the Worcester Art Museum (2015) and co-curated \u003ci\u003eLiving Proof: Drawing in 19th-Century Japan\u003c\/i\u003e at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (2017-18). At the National Museum of Asian Art, Kit worked on a number of exhibitions, including \u003ci\u003eUnderdogs and Antiheroes: Japanese Prints from the Moskowitz Collection\u003c\/i\u003e (2022-2023). Kit also curated Ay-Ō's \u003ci\u003eHappy Rainbow Hell\u003c\/i\u003e, the first exhibition of the Japanese artist AyŌ's (b. 1931) work in the United States, and authored the accompanying catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKerry Roeder\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor in the history of art, design and visual culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. As a curatorial fellow at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, she curated \u003ci\u003eDewing's Poetic Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e, and was a co-curator of the \u003ci\u003eWhistler in Watercolor\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Peacock Room in Blue and White\u003c\/i\u003e exhibitions. She contributed to the \u003ci\u003eWhistler in Watercolor\u003c\/i\u003e exhibition catalogue and online collection catalogue. She holds a PhD in art history from the University of Delaware with a focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American visual culture. Her book \u003ci\u003eWide Awake in Slumberland\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), a monograph on cartoonist Winsor McCay, was nominated for an Eisner Award. She previously worked at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Gallery and held fellowships at the National Portrait Gallery and the Library of Congress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 164\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 10 x 9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457054097586,"sku":"9781913875824","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ea86608063000ef21a9daf62f142a011.webp?v=1778875837","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/a-tale-of-two-balconies-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}